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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29DR_to-market-to-market_Washington-DC.html
After this neighborhood's original Northern Liberty Market on Mount Vernon Square was razed in 1872, a new Northern Liberty Market was built along Fifth between K and L streets. When owners decided that fresh farm products weren't drawing enough c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29D6_rock-creek-park_Washington-DC.html
Rock Creek Park was created by Congress in 1890 through the lobbying efforts of local philanthropist Charles C. Glover. Its original 1,754 acres taken mainly by eminent domain constitutes the largest urban park in America - twice the size of New Y…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM297O_eastland-gardens_Washington-DC.html
Water and land embrace one another here in Eastland Gardens, adjacent Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. The Neighborhood dates to 1928 when a group of developers call Eastland Gardens Inc. bought some 150 acres of the former Benning Racetrack property a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM297M_embassy-of-the-republic-of-malta_Washington-DC.html
This building in the historical district of Kalorama houses the Embassy and the Consulate of the Republic of Malta. It was built in 1903 on the plans of the noted American architect Waddy Butler Wood (1869-1944). In 1987 it was listed on the Natio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28ZG_district-of-columbia-fire-department_Washington-DC.html
This fire station originally opened on December 29, 1925, as the newly organized Truck Company 13. Engine Company 10 (organized on July 2, 1895, located at 1341 Maryland Avenue, NE) moved to these quarters on June 4, 1940, joining Truck Company 13…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28TD_the-whyland_Washington-DC.html
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28TC_blanche-k-bruce-and-josephine-beall-willson-bruce-residence_Washington-DC.html
Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841-1898) and his wife Josephine Beall Willson Bruce (1853-1923), leaders of Washington's "aristocrats of color," lived here from 1890 to 1898. Born in Virginia, Blanche escaped slavery during the Civil War,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM281A_the-manila-house_Washington-DC.html
This building was the gathering place of the Filipino community from the late 1930s to the 1950s and was known as the Manila House. Filipino author Bienvenido "Ben" Santos (1911-1996) wrote about the Manila House in his collection of short stories…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM280J_for-god-and-country-a-war-memorial_Washington-DC.html
For God And Country
[Left plaque on bottom of memorial:]
In memory of all those
who have given their lives
for their country
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Presented by the
Class of 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27YR_school-of-international-service_Washington-DC.html
". . .the waging of peace demands the best we have, the best young men and women that we can find to put in this great effort which must go on around the world all the time."
(President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the ground-breaking of the School …