The Oldest Continuously Operating Fish Market In America Is Tucked Away In Washington DC - Chowhound

Bdphoto/Getty Images When the fish market on Maine Avenue, located between the Potomac River and the National Mall in Washington, D.C., first opened, Thomas Jefferson had just begun his second term as U.S. president. The District was barely built. The federal government had only arrived five years earlier to set up in its new home that had been designated by Congress in 1790. It was 1805, and local fishing boats…