Adams Morgan

This guide to Adams Morgan, perched above Rock Creek's gorge in Washington, D.C., opens with a 1953 fall from the Calvert Street bridge that a nineteen-year-old woman survived when the ravine's tree cover broke it. It traces the swaying 1891 iron trestle that first carried streetcars across the valley, and the 1933 engineering feat that rolled the entire span eighty feet sideways on rollers without ever stopping the trolleys running across it. Riders on that older span said they could feel it sway underfoot.