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Old 12-16-2015, 07:05 PM
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For the first couple of years, they had no opponents to play as they couldn't find another team so they just practiced in Lincoln Park in DC.
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I was in downtown DC about a year ago and had a couple of hours to kill between meetings so I went down to Lincoln Park where the Orient Foot Ball Club practiced in the 1880s. Here are some pictures.

Statue of Lincoln commemorating the abolition of slavery


A lot more concrete in this park than I bet there was in the 1880s!


This is more like it!


Some beautiful old townhouses surround it now.


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