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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ9C_dudley-knox-center-for-naval-history_Washington-DC.html
Dudley W. Knox, an 1896 graduate of the Naval Academy, had numerous tours afloat during the first twenty-five years of his career, including service in the first of the Navy's destroyers. He later played an important role in developing tactics and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5T_4-in-40-caliber-rifles_Washington-DC.html
These two guns, originally known as breech-loading rifles, are trained in a southerly direction, to either side of the flagpole.
Gun on East side, registry no. 21, manufactured in 1896 here at the Navy Yard mounted on USS PURITAN (Monitor #1, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYZE_american-university_Washington-DC.html
Beyond Ward Circle to your left is the campus of American University, chartered byCongress in 1893. Methodist Bishop John Fletcher Hurst guided the university's development as a center for training future public servants. With its schools in busin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYZD_in-touch-with-the-world_Washington-DC.html
"Tenley Tower," behind you, dates from the mid-1940s. Western Union Telegraph Co. built it as part of an experimental system using microwaves to transmit telegrams in the mid-Atlantic region. This new technology helped erase telegraph wires and po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYWR_griffith-stadium_Washington-DC.html
"I used to come home every night, get a quarter from my mother, run to Griffith Stadium, and sit in the bleachers," Abe Pollin once said. "I would look out at these good seats and say, ?Some day, maybe I will get a good seat.' "When Pollin's MCI C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYWK_medical-care-for-all_Washington-DC.html
During the Civil War (1861-1865), thousands of formerly enslaved people came to Washington in search of new lives. They needed work, education, shelter - and health care. In 1862 the U.S. government responded with Freedmen's Hospital, located at 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYVG_armed-resistance_Washington-DC.html
Shortly before midnight on July 22, 1919, James Scott, a black army veteran, boarded a streetcar at the corner and nearly lost his life.
A few days before, a white mob, including many veterans of World War I, had terrorized Southwest DC, rando…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYQH_national-intelligencer_Washington-DC.html
Founded by Samuel Harrison Smith and later published by Joseph Gales, Jr. The National Intelligencer for 65 years was a leading journal in the nation's capital, a vital force in the country's political life, a principal source of information about…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGN_navy-department-library_Washington-DC.html
The Navy Department Library was established by President Adams on 31 March 1800. On that date he wrote to the first Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Stoddart, requesting the gathering "? of all the best writing in Dutch, Spanish, French, and espe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAY_constitution-hall_Washington-DC.html
has been designated a National Historic LandmarkThis site possesses national significance In commemorating the history of the United States of America1985National Park ServiceUnited States Department of the Interior