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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGCV_all-aboard_Washington-DC.html
Before bridges spanned the Potomac, ferry boats took people and goods across the river. You could ride to Alexandria from Greenleaf's Point (now Fort McNair), or between the landings where today's 14th Street Bridge touches ground. Sailboats came…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDKO_escape-from-slavery_Washington-DC.html
Before the Civil War, Washington was a slave-holding city. But many of its citizens-especially free blacks and abolitionists-assisted freedom seekers at locations known as stops on the Underground Railroad.
The largest attempted slave escape be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDGF_the-law-house-in-peace-and-war_Washington-DC.html
To your left across Water Street is the Thomas Law House, now a community center for the Tiber Island cooperative. The Federal style house was designed by William Lovering in 1794 for businessman Thomas Law and his bride Eliza Parke Custis, grandd…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDFK_military-education-at-fort-mcnair_Washington-DC.html
Fort Leslie J. McNair, to your right, honors the commander, Army Ground Forces during World War II who died in battle. It is the U.S. Army's third oldest installation (after West Point and Carlisle Barracks).
The fort dates back to 1791. Washin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDFF_benjamin-banneker-park_Washington-DC.html
"? it is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, ... to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race..." - Benjamin Banneker, 1792
Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4WS_cuban-friendship-urn_Washington-DC.html
(smaller plaque on the urn) El recuerdo del "Maine" tendr? eterna duraci?n durante los siglos los lazos de la amistad entre la tierra de Cuba y la tierra de los Estados Unidos de Norte Am?rica. —Gerardo Machado
(plaque on base) Esta copa …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CB_world-war-ii-memorial_Washington-DC.html
Here in the presence of Washington and Lincoln, one the Eighteenth Century father and the other the Nineteenth Century preserver of our nation, we honor those Twentieth Century Americans who took up the struggle during the Second World War and mad…