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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYQ_brickyards-to-buildings_Washington-DC.html
The Trinidad neighborhood, named for W.W. Corcoran's original estate, got its start in the 1890s after the Washington Brick Machine Company used up the clay here making bricks. With H Street filling in with houses and businesses, the company sold …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYP_education-for-all_Washington-DC.html
Gallaudet University is world renowned as the premier institution for higher education for deaf and hard of hearing students. It opened as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind in 1856 on land donated by forme…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYO_provisions-for-the-city_Washington-DC.html
This high ground near the B&O Railroad tracks has been Union Terminal Market since 1931. That year Center Market on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, came down to make way for the National Archives. Vendors seeking new locations clustered here.
Before t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYN_the-icemans-arena_Washington-DC.html
Uline Arena was built in 1941 by ice maker Mike Uline to present ice skating, hocky, basketball, and tennis. The Dutch immigrant, originally named Migiel Uihlein, had made a fortune patenting ice production equipment and selling ice from his plant…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYM_community-caretakers_Washington-DC.html
The elegant Romanesque portion of the Senate Square condominium complex started life in 1874 as the Little Sisters of the Poor House for the Aged. St. Aloysius Church member Ellen Sherman, wife of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, helped…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYL_roll-out-the-barrel_Washington-DC.html
Stuart-Hobson Middle School, one block to the east of this sign, was built in 1927 on the site of an old brewery, one of nearly two dozen that operated in DC after the Civil War. Almost all of the breweries were run by German immigrants who specia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYK_at-the-crossroads_Washington-DC.html
One year before Congress and the President arrived in their new capital city in 1800, Washington's Navy Yard opened at the foot of Eighth Street, two miles south of this sign. The yard soon became the city's biggest employer. In 1908 streetcars be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYJ_gateway-to-the-nations-capital_Washington-DC.html
With its view of the Capitol and Senate office buildings, and with the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court just a short stroll away, Union Station truly is the gateway to the heart of the nation's government. The station is also where offici…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYI_all-aboard_Washington-DC.html
Union Station, across First Street, was the world's largest railroad terminal when it opened in 1907. Its construction took five years and displaced hundreds of small houses and businesses. Architect Daniel Burnham's Beaux-Arts masterpiece, with i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CTY_swampoodle_Washington-DC.html
This is the western edge of what once was the rough, working-class Swampoodle neighborhood.
In the early days the marshy Tiber Creek ran between what are now North Capitol and First Streets, NE. Legend has it that lingering rain puddles ("poodl…