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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM235Z_american-veterans-disabled-for-life-memorial-a-war-memorial_Washington-DC.html
Each of you bears upon his body the permanent, honorable scars of dangerous service: service rendered in order that our great nation might continue to live according to the expressed will of its own citizens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Before I conc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IY7_walter-reed_Washington-DC.html
Walter Reed
Who gave man control over
Yellow Fever
Died in a hospital
on this site
November 23,1902
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IY5_walter-reed_Washington-DC.html
Walker Reed
1851 - 1902
Major, Medical Corps
United States Army
Solider, Physician, Teacher, Scientist
Major Reed died in this building on November 3, 1902. In 1900 Walter Reed led the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Board that documented the mosqui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM184C_building-20-grant-hall_Washington-DC.html
In 1829, the Federal Penitentiary was built on this site. Designed by Charles Bulfinch, the Architect of the Capitol, the Penitentiary was influenced by the prison reform movement of the 1820s. In 1831, an eastern extension to the building added a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJTX_lincoln-assassination-trial_Washington-DC.html
On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth (of Maryland) assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Fords Theater in downtown Washington. Booth's conspirators were arrested and tried by a Military Court here in Building 20 from May 9 to June 30, 1865. One…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJTW_women-war-workers-1861-1865_Washington-DC.html
During the Civil War the Washington Arsenal was both the largest Federal arsenal and the one closest for shipping its war materials to the various fighting fronts in Virginia. Here thousands of caissons and limbers, wagons and ambulances, cannon b…