DC Untold

Ep. 1 -- The Neighborhood Under Your Feet

Every time you walk through Union Station — one of the most visited buildings in America — you are standing on top of a neighborhood that used to exist. It was called Swampoodle. Built by Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Famine in the 1840s. They had a church, a school, a baseball stadium, and a whole life. In 1907, the city demolished it to build a train stat… Play episode