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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EAR_abner-cloud-mill_Washington-DC.html
Abner Cloud Mill. Echoes of Millstones. Baking bread, frying cornbead and eating "stick to your ribs" oatmeal, all have one thing in common; their ingredients started out at a grist mill. Decades before the sounds of lockhorns and mule hooves clop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EAQ_georgetown-incline-plane_Washington-DC.html
Georgetown Incline Plane. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. Here, in 1876, an engineering marvel was built. The largest incline plane in the world and the first built in the United States, carried canal boats to and from the Poto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EAF_escape-allee-1838_Washington-DC.html
Escape Allée (1838). Douglass Community Center. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey fled enslavement in Maryland on September 3, 1838. His escape route included travel by train, ferry, and steamboat through Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EAD_freedom-grove-1838_Washington-DC.html
Freedom Grove (1838). Douglass Community Center. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey arrived in New York with the aid of a free woman named Anna Murray. She followed him to New York, and eleven days after his arrival, they married. The couple con…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EAC_memorial-grove-1841-1895_Washington-DC.html
Memorial Grove (1841-1895). Douglass Community Center. From his 1841 speech at a Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society convention, until 1895 when he died suddenly at his Cedar Hill home in Washington, D.C., Frederick Douglass championed human rights…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EAB_activist-grove-1833-1845_Washington-DC.html
Activist Grove (1833-1845). Douglass Community Center. Three years after he escaped enslavement, Douglass gave a brief speech at an anti-slavery meeting in New Bedford, Massachusetts. This lecture would be the beginning of a repertoire of speeches…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EA2_potomac-boat-club_Washington-DC.html
Potomac Boat Club. . Potomac Boat Club Founded in 1869 This Boathouse built in 1908 A.B. Mullet & Co., Architect Charles J. Cassidy, Builder Listed in the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites 1973 National Register of Hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E7Y_the-minuteman-memorial-building_Washington-DC.html
The Minuteman Memorial Building. ROA National Headquarters. The Reserve Officers Association of the United States was founded in 1922 by combat veterans of World War I at the request of their commander, General of the Armies John "Black Jack" Pers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E5V_the-stonesdale_Washington-DC.html
The Stonesdale. . The Stonesdale Built 1904 National Register of Historic Places.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E5U_administration-building-carnegie-institution-of-washington_Washington-DC.html
Administration Building, Carnegie Institution of Washington. . Administration Building Carnegie Institution of Washington has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of Augus…