In Anacostia, the 11th Precinct Police Station was built in 1910 on the unofficial dividing line between black and white residential sections, and until the 1960s residents rarely crossed that line. Children learned to stay within their assigned areas, and memories of the neighborhood differed, with Rev. Oliver Johnson recalling that African Americans had their own world and former Council member Stanley Anderson remembering that going below the precinct house toward Good Hope Road could bring serious trouble because white residents lived there. Even Anacostia Park was segregated, with African Americans using the area south of Good Hope Road and whites the north side, where the swimming pool and tennis courts stood. Before the 11th Precinct was established in 1909, Anacostia, Hillsdale, and nearby neighborhoods belonged to the 5th Precinct across the river, and the new Spanish style station replaced a substation nearer Good Hope Road. In 1993 the former station became the Max Robinson Center for Health and Living, serving people with HIV/AIDS. Nearby, the Salvation Army's Solomon G. Brown Corps Community Center honors Solomon G. Brown, an unschooled Hillsdale resident who, during 54 years at the Smithsonian, became an expert in natural history, lectured before scientific societies, founded several civic organizations, and in 1871 was elected to represent Anacostia and Hillsdale in Washington's short-lived territorial government.
