Historic Peirce Mill, in DC's Rock Creek Park, has a long history of hosting community dances.
While the annual square dance had only been meeting for a few years prior to 2018, the mill has a long tradition of dancing that goes back more than a century, says Angela Kramer, executive director of Friends of Peirce Mill.
“I sometimes say that mills are one of the first third places,” says Kramer. “They’re where people often gathered and socialized in farm communities. We have one article describing a dance that took place on a beautiful September evening sometime in the 19th century. There were a lot of young people who danced, there was a lot of falling in and out of love, and one older woman was quoted as saying she was glad that the mill’s walls couldn’t speak.
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