History
We acknowledge that before the Methodist Burying Grounds, Mount Zion Cemetery, Female Union Band Society Cemetery, or any of today's Georgetown existed, the land was the ancestral home of the Patawomeke and Nacotchtan people.
The Nacotchtan (this name Latinized by Jesuit missionaries to "Anacostan") are an unaffiliated people that lived within the land of the greater Piscataway tribe for over 2,000 years. These people were the inhabitants of Tahoga - the village location documented in 1631 by English sailing Captain and explorer James Fleet to be where Rock Creek joins the Potomac River.
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This history was prepared by EHT Traceries as part of a preservation planning project funded in part by a grant received by the DC Preservation League (DCPL) with the support from the Dorothea de Schweinitz Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The project was also funded in part by a contribution from the Mt. Zion Female Union Band Historic Memorial Park Inc.