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Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington"The neighborhood was our whole life." Albert Small, born in the neighborhood in 1902. This is the oldest surviving synagogue building in Washington. Constructed in 1875 by Adas Israel Congregation, a…
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On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth (of Maryland) assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Fords Theater in downtown Washington. Booth's conspirators were arrested and tried by a Military Court here in Building 20 from May 9 to June 30, 1865. One…
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During the Civil War the Washington Arsenal was both the largest Federal arsenal and the one closest for shipping its war materials to the various fighting fronts in Virginia. Here thousands of caissons and limbers, wagons and ambulances, cannon b…
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"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable," Senator Daniel Webster, January 1830.
Senator Daniel Webster, eloquent advocate for the preservation of the Union and a political giant in pre-Civil War America, lived and worked here. …
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503 D StreetFormerly law offices and residenceofDaniel Webster
Plaque erected under auspices of theColumbia Historical Societyandthe Bar Associationof the District of Columbia
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DC's Art Deco/Art Moderne Recorder of Deeds Building (1941) houses city land records. Many notable African Americans have served as recorders of deeds since President Garfield appointed Frederick Douglass to the post in 1881. These include Branche…
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MEADE The Commonwealth of Pennsylvaniato Major GeneralGeorge Gordon Meade who commanded the Union forcesat Gettysburg
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[pedestal, north face:]Albert Pike
VixitLaborum Ejus Supersites Sunt FructusAuthor - Poet
[pedestal, west face:]Scholar - Soldier
[pedestal, south face:]Erected 1901 by the Supreme Council ofthe A. A. S. R. of Freemasonry for the S. J. U.…
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"Main Street" for the city and the nation.
Just a few steps ahead is Pennsylvania Avenue the inaugural parade route for every president since Thomas Jefferson and "Main Street" for local Washington since the city's founding. Jefferson planted t…
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"Carpets, cushions, and hymnbooks were packed away ... ambulances began to stop ... lastly come the surgeons...." Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington.Church spires dominated the skyline of the city of Washington at the time of the Civil War, sy…