Brentwood is a neighborhood in Northeast Washington, DC and is named after the Brentwood Mansion built in the area in 1817 by Robert Brent, the first mayor of Washington City.
It is best known as the site of the Joseph Curseen Jr. and Thomas Morris Jr. Processing and Distribution Center, the postal mail sorting facility through which anthrax-contaminated mail addressed to two members of the U.S. Senate passed in October2001. Curseen and Morris were postal workers who died after exposure to the anthrax in the incident. The 633,000 ft² facility was closed October 21, 2001, because of anthrax contamination and did not reopen until December 21, 2003.
Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C. Washington; the Nation's Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United States of America.
Washington may have chosen the site for its natural scenery, in the belief that the Potomac had the potential to be a great navigable waterway, or even in the hope of increasing the value of his land holdings in the area.
Washington is surrounded by the states of Virginia (on its southwest side, and a small part of its northwest one) and Maryland (on its southeast and northeast sides, and most of its northwest one); it interrupts those states' common border, which is the Potomac River both upstream and downstream from the District.
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