Tuesday, May 14, 2013
In honor of the Connecticut-Copperthite Pie Baking Co. 125th anniversary, the family donated an historic photo to the Georgetown library's collection.
Descendants of the owners of the Connecticut-Copperthite Pie Baking Co. of Georgetown converged on the Georgetown Neighborhood Library Saturday to donate a framed 1913 black and white image of the baking company in Georgetown. The image is that of the pie company at its former location on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and O Street (where the CVS sits today). In it you can see horses waiting in a line, ready to carry boxes and boxes of pies to homes and businesses across the District. "This has been really fascinating learning about the important role this company had here in Georgetown and in Washington, D.C.," explained Special Collections Librarian Jerry McCoy. Mike Copperthite, great grandson of pie company co-founder Henry Copperthite…
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Descendants of the families, workers and patrons of the Connecticut-Copperthite Pie Baking Co. will be in Georgetown on Saturday.
Descendants of the people who ran the Connecticut-Copperthite Pie Baking Co. of Georgetown will donate a historic photo to the Georgetown Neighborhood Library at 2 p.m. Saturday. The family will donate a 1913 Georgetown landmark photograph to the library's Peabody special collection. "Mr. Copperthite first contacted me last year inquiring about what materials on his family and its business were in the Peabody Room. I was disturbed to discover after checking the collection that there was very little historical information on the Copperthite family or their business and I felt it was important to acknowledge both," explained Special Collections Librarian Jerry McCoy. Henry Copperthite first started making pies in Georgetown in 1885 and in …
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Do you remember the day the Georgetown Neighborhood Library went up in flames?
Five years ago, Georgetown's neighborhood library caught fire and much of its collection was lost or damaged either by the flames or water from the efforts to put out the flames. The fire started on April 30, 2007 while contractors were renovating the building. Oddly that same day the historic Eastern Market on Capitol Hill also had a devastating fire. Later investigations showed that the two fires were unrelated. The building re-opened October 18, 2010 after years of efforts by the District government and the community to raise funds and restore the neighborhood's library on the hill to its former glory. The renovation and upgrades cost nearly $18 million. At the ribbon cutting ceremony in 2010, Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans told a …
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Recently donated items from long-time residents enrich the Georgetown Neighborhood Library's Peabody Collection.
A book of matches, a telephone company newsletter, stationery from a long-since defunct neighborhood organization, these were all items recently donated to the Georgetown Neighborhood Library's Peabody Collection. These ephemera help catalogue Georgetown's evolving story, which special collections librarian Jerry McCoy spends his days piecing together bit by bit. McCoy said he received a call from an older couple who live on Q Lane in Foxhall Village. They had a few boxes of things they had saved from their years as Georgetown residents, would he want them? McCoy picked up the boxes one afternoon recently and as he went through each item, he said he thought to himself, "Oh yeah, there's some good stuff in here." There was a brochure for …
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Shaun Courtney
3:24 pm on Monday, April 30, 2012
Thanks for sharing, Anna! more ›