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Locations of Gas Plants and Other Coal-tar Sites in the U.S.

► THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

Introduction: 

             Following the news of Rembrandt Peale's gas lighting efforts at Baltimore, several institutional gas machines were in place that very same year (1816; Washington Gas Light & Coke Company, 1948, p. 19), and at Davis' Ballroom in the following year. Gas was produced both from coal and wood. In 1840 the Congress briefly considered sponsorship of a gas company, but did not act. About 1841, Georgetown College installs institutional gas plant and lights several buildings. In the same year Smaller (than Georgetown College) gas plant at Brown’s Indian Queen Hotel. and the National Hotel had operating institutional machines.

             By 1846, gas pioneer James Cruchettt chartered a company to produce "carburetted hydrogen gas" and this went into production at Cruchett's home at North Capitol and "C" Streets, operating with rosen as the feedstock. In 1847, the Congress authorized $17,000 for a new Cruchettt plant on the lower northwest terrace of the Capitol Grounds and the Senate Chamber was so lit that December.  The nation’s capital was far behind the “cities of light” with its 1849 creation of the Washington Gas Light & Coke Company.

            Today there are tar-residual remains of at least eleven manufactured gas plants in the Capital City of the United States.

Click the blue "EPA" link below to view the DC map of the EPA 1985 Radian FMGP Report.	Click the green "Hatheway" link below to view the DC map of Professor Hatheway's research.