JEREMIAH: Woodridge is an interesting place.

Bladensburg Road is actually the first authorized toll road in the country.

So, that goes back to 1814 and Congress actually chartered it and it was to connect Baltimore to the permanent seat of government.

So, that members of the House and the Senate could easily get to Congress.

Clark Mills came between 1840 and 1845.

He was a sculptor.

He cast the statue of Andrew Jackson and George Washington.

So, he needed a larger place to be able to do larger statues.

And so, when the opportunity came to do the Statue of Freedom on the Capitol building, Woodridge was perfect.

He built his foundry where the present-day Metro bus garage is.

The original Statue of Freedom was constructed in Italy and it was transported to Washington.

Clark Mills had an enslaved apprentice named Philip Reed.

Philip Reed, after studying the statue, figured out how to disassemble it without, uh, damaging it, and supervised the transportation of it out to the new Mills Studio, and that's where it would be cast.

Philip Reed is the only enslaved person who worked on the Capitol.

It's documented that his X is on this pay voucher.

When the Civil War was over, there was expectation that a lot of troops would leave Washington.

They didn't.

So, the railroad community started to show up.

The early houses were just small, one-and two-story on very narrow parcels of land.

Larger houses came and, in 1914, when the subdivisions were set up, white folks had moved out here and they bought their own prejudices and predispositions on who could live here and who they wanted around them, and they wrote them into the, uh, the deeds.

Black folks didn't move into the area until 1952, 1958.

So, there are families here who have stayed here because they earned the right to stay and they remember what it was when we were told you couldn't be someplace.

The saying is, in Woodridge, "A good community, getting better."

So, it is always evolving.

MUHAMMAD: The Museum Shop is a creative space to curate fashion and art and build in the community.

Back in the late 80s, early 90s, streetwear brands meant so much to the city, but we saw that none of those stores were here anymore.

So, we sat down, and we was like, "Man, maybe we can do our own store."

In May 2016 is when we dropped our first item, which was the hat, and we sold out fast.

The multi-colored logo has the colors of our Metro rail system, here in DC, and then it has all the love on the side, right here, "For the love of the city."

We've seen a lot of, not just athletes, but celebrities to wear our brand.

The first shoe that we designed for Steph Curry was the Curry 1.

We put DC lingo on there at the bottom of the soles.

The initial conversation between us and the Commanders was an opportunity to design the guest services uniforms.

The season opener, we watched 200-plus people walking all with the polo and the hat on.

It's one of those wow moments when, like, I was speechless to see my logo on so many people.

The one thing I love about having a storefront on Rhode Island Avenue is the community.

It's one thing for people to see the owners inside their facility working.

It's just a different feeling, that's that community-based, you know, that-that-that would just carry you over for 20 years and keep customers keep coming back and keep coming back, and they feel like this is home.