Absolutely.
- Nacotchtank Indians lived there in the early 1600s.
- A small group of slave-holding farmers lived there in the 1790s.
- Thomas Jefferson moved there in 1801 and all the subsequent presidents followed.
- Joseph Henry, the first Secretary of the Smithsonian, lived there for twenty-three years in the mid-19th century.
- From 1840-1930 there was a working-class neighborhood there.
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