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[Panel No. 1]:James Buchanan of PennsylvaniaPresident of the United States MDCCCIVII - MDCCCIXI
[Panel No. 2]: The incorruptible statesman whosewalk was upon the mountainranges of the law
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG0K_meridian-hill-park_Washington-DC.html
Just ahead of you at the corner of 15th Street and Florida Avenue is the entrance to Meridian Hill Park, a dramatic urban oasis established in 1912 and completed in 1936. Its stunning, 12-acre landscape features the longest cascading waterfall of …
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Wayland Seminary opened in Foggy Bottom just after the Civil War to train formerly enslaved people and others as "preachers and teachers for the South" and as missionaries to evangelize Africa. In 1875 it moved here, later merging with Richmond T…
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Marker Front:Fourteenth Street has always been the business backbone of Columbia Heights. Beginning in the 1890s, electric streetcars dropped passengers at nearly every corner, attracting commerce. By 1925 storefronts occupied the blocks between E…
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Organized September 1928 at M Street and New York Avenue
Moved February 19, 1933to Ninth Street and RhodeIsland Avenue, N.W.
Moved August 1950 to Thirteenthand Clifton Street, N.W.
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In the days of legally segregated public education (1862-1954), this school building was Central High, the gem of the School Board's white division. But by 1949, it had few students, as the post-World War II suburban housing boom had drawn whites …
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These elegant 13th Street Houses were constructed when racial separation was legal and widely accepted. In 1910 the deeds for many houses across 13th Street had covenants banning "any negro or colored persons." Those on this side generally did not…
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National Historical MarkerThe Blair HousePurchased in 1836by Francis P. Blair, Sr.,friend of Andrew Jackson,publisher of the Washington "Globe"and the "Congressional Globe."Inherited by his son, Montgomery Blair,Attorney for Dred Scott,Postmaster …
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Battle Flag of USS BALAO [illustration]
Displacement: 1,526 [tons](surfaced), 2,414 (submerged)Length: 311' 9"Draft: 16' 10" Speed: 20.25 k. (sufaced), 8.75 k. (submerged)Complement: 6 officers and 60 enlisted menArmament: 10 21" torpedo tubes,…
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"There is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish." Samuel Gompers.
This large office building opened in 1916 as the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor. With 2.5 million members, this union was the natio…