Trinidad is a neighborhood located in Ward 5, in the northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C. and is a largely residential area. The land once belonged to the family of a man who lived on the island of Trinidad and planned to relocate in the DC neighborhood (which was then considered a suburb of Bladensburg, MD), but died before coming to the states. It later belonged to a member of the Corcoran family, and he bequeathed it to George Washington University (then called Columbian College). The university sold it to one of the brickworks that once operated in the area (Washington Brick Machine Company). The brickworks intended to excavate clay from the land. Realizing that they did not need all of the land, the brickworks began selling off parcels, and, in the late 1800s/early 1900s, the first