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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Washington, District of Columbia
Adjacent to Washington, District of Columbia
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Having been used since at least 2000 B.C., the reddish orange roots contain several dye substances. It was used to dye the British redcoats and was best known as the source of Turkey red on linen and cotton textiles. — — Map (db m144650) HM
According to Dioscorides, leaves and berries were drunk in wine to encourage menstruation, to break up bladder stones, and to cure jaundice and headache. This mixture could also be used as a diuretic. — — Map (db m144657) HM
This grass has been a source of sugar for at least 5,000 years, and sugar was the original sweetener of choice in the beverage industry. Cane juice, molasses, and falernum syrup are all made from this plant, and are used in the brewing of stouts or . . . — — Map (db m235690) HM
Clary wine was considered an aphrodisiac in the sixteenth century. The bitter aromatic leaves flavor wine, ale, beer and liqueurs. — — Map (db m144693) HM
The root has an orange-red dye that was used to paint the Meskwaki Indian warriors and to dye Rush mats made by the women. Narragansett Indians used the root as a cosmetic. — — Map (db m207120) HM
The Cahuilla of southern California believed a tea made from this plant to be an effective remedy for reducing fevers and curing colds. — — Map (db m144618) HM
Colonists brought winter savory over to the new world to flavor dishes, stuffings to meat, fish and sausages. Leaves were taken to stimulate the appetite and to aid in digestion. — — Map (db m144634) HM
Research has validated the historic use of this plant for liver problems. Its active constituents help detoxify the liver and spur the regeneration of liver cells. As a result, it is useful for treating liver damage associated with alcohol abuse and . . . — — Map (db m235701) HM
Smoke from the burning root was used by the Meskwaki to revive unconscious patients, to hush a crying child, and to cast spells. — — Map (db m144573) HM
The leaves and stems have long been an excellent source of a yellow dye that has been popular with dyers since Colonial days. The Navajo Indians used it as a textile dye. Colors produced range from yellows to greens. — — Map (db m207117) HM
Used for thousands of years to treat bruises and sprains, the plant contains compounds, such as allantoin, that promote healing and other substances that are anti-inflammatory. There is controversy concerning its safety, especially for internal use, . . . — — Map (db m144680) HM
Marigolds are thought to have been taken to Europe from the New World by Cortez. The flowers contain the same dye substances as onion skins. A variety of colors are imparted to wool depending on the mordant. — — Map (db m207115) HM
This plant was used by the colonists in a favorite spring tonic known as "Sweet Mary tea." It was also widely used throughout eastern Massachusetts in nosegays or as bookmarkers to enjoy during long sermons. — — Map (db m144637) HM
Tansy tea was taken to calm cramps, but colonists also used tansy leaves as an insect repellant in their homes. Leaves were also rubbed on fresh meats to keep flies off. — — Map (db m144559) HM
Dioscorides reported that a beverage of the fruiting plant was drunk for convulsions and coughs. It was taken with wine by those who were bitten by poisonous beasts. — — Map (db m144675) HM
A decoction of the root was used for female diseases and to bring on childbirth by some tribes; others used it to treat headaches and rheumatism. — — Map (db m144606) HM
The Chippewa made pemmican (high-energy food) by adding dried blueberries to moose fat and deer tallow. Native Americans also made a tea of blueberry roots to treat diarrhea and to ease childbirth. — — Map (db m144610) HM
Tradition says the Pied Piper carried valerian root in his back pocket to help lure the rats out of Hamelin. The root has an offensive scent similar to Limburger cheese, but is also musky and balsamic and is used in perfumery in India and the Far . . . — — Map (db m144690) HM
It contains the yellow dye substance luteolin and produces a range of olives and grays on wool. The flowers were used by Roman women as a hair colorant, and ashes of the burned plant were used to restore graying hair. — — Map (db m207113) HM
The tops of the dried stalks were dipped in fat and used as torches. Dried leaves of mullein were used in tea to help stop coughing. Soft leaves used fresh as socks for insulation and sometimes for diapers. — — Map (db m235714) HM
The black roots contain a substance with powerful emetic (vomit-inducing) and cathartic (bowel-purging) properties which was used by the Senecas and Menomini.
This root is potentially toxic. — — Map (db m144602) HM
Periwinkle was used by the colonists to make soothing ointments for the skin. Fresh leaves were used to stop bleeding, externally and internally. — — Map (db m144555) HM
Dioscorides suggested that the leaves be chewed for toothache and applied as a poultice for snakebite. He prescribed a drink of the leaves and stalks in wine for dysentery. — — Map (db m144678) HM
Dioscorides noted that chaste maidens used the plant for bedding. He recommended burning leaves to fumigate venomous beasts. A poultice of the leaves relieved stings. — — Map (db m144677) HM
The Native Americans had been using the leaves since time immemorial to make twine and cordage. Men on Raleigh's second voyage to Virginia in 1586 noticed its economic potential. — — Map (db m144564) HM
Used as early as 3000 B.C. in China where it was prescribed for colds, fever, and leprosy, among other ailments. It was also used medicinally in ancient Greece and India. Research has identified constituents that have anti-inflammatory qualities, . . . — — Map (db m144685) HM
These 22 Corinthian sandstone columns were among 24 that were part of the east portico of the United States Capitol. Architect Charles Bullfinch oversaw construction of the portico using a design handed down by his predecessors, William Thornton and . . . — — Map (db m918) HM
This small grove of Dawn Redwood is somewhat reminiscent of the few stands that occur in its native homeland, China. Known only through paleobotanical records prior to 1945, living specimens of this almost extinct plant were discovered in that year . . . — — Map (db m144582) HM
These herbs planted here are a representative selection from plants listed about 60 A.D by the Greek physician, Dioscorides. The modern science of pharmacology is traced back to his efforts to list systematically the plants that were used for . . . — — Map (db m144439) HM
This garden illustrates the historic and current use of herbs as medicine. Plants have played an integral part in illness and disease treatment for thousands of years. By observation, trial, and error, people learned which plants had healing . . . — — Map (db m144438) HM
Assembled in this garden is a permanent collection of the Glenn Dale Hybrid Azaleas, originated, selected, and named by B. Y. Morrison, first Director of the U.S. National Arboretum. — — Map (db m966) HM
The presence of the National Capitol Columns on the knoll in this meadow was the inspiration of Ethel Shields Garrett, patron and friend of the National Arboretum. It was through her vision, courage, and determination for thirty years that these . . . — — Map (db m917) HM
Dr. George M. Darrow, upon retirement, devoted his life to developing tetraploid daylilies and improving diploid cultivars. His most successful efforts were aimed at obtaining very flowering daylilies using such species as Hemerocallis . . . — — Map (db m145887) HM
The sandstone base and capital are from a Corinthian column that once graced the east central portico of the United States Capitol. The columns were dismantled in 1958 to make way for the east front extension, where marble reproductions now stand. . . . — — Map (db m7621) HM
The formal knot expresses the traditional elegance of the garden design which originated in Europe during the 16th century. Knot garden designs are geometrically patterned on a level site with plants arranged so they may be pruned to follow a . . . — — Map (db m144435) HM
Would your hobby take you to the four corners of the world?
Few private plant collectors have approached their hobby with more enthusiasm than the late William Gotelli who travelled the world in search of unusual conifers, collecting more than . . . — — Map (db m144583) HM
From the mountainous areas to the desert and the tropics, salvias commonly known as sage, can be found growing everywhere in the world except Australia and Antarctica. These members of the Mint Family have every imaginable variation in leaf . . . — — Map (db m235680) HM
100 ft x 5 ft
Mylar paper, acrylic paint
2018
This installation is inspired by the work and legacy of the late conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. Informed by Bernstein's varied lyrical style and socially motivated themes, the . . . — — Map (db m115787) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m71680) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m186807) HM
Cathy Hughes and WOL-AM have made an indelible mark on this Washington D.C. community. In 1982, Hughes purchased a building at the corner of 4th and H Streets and found it littered with almost 200 hypodermic needles and crack pipes. The home of her . . . — — Map (db m111969) HM
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, . . . — — Map (db m186806) HM
When the Atlas Performing Arts Center opened in 2005, it gave hope to an area still recovering from the destruction following the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. But when K-B's Atlas movie house opened here . . . — — Map (db m152470) HM
Dr. Granville N. Moore practiced medicine on this site for over 50 years, providing medical care for the poor and underprivilege.
In the spirit of Dr. Granville's commitment to the community, we reopen these doors as a . . . — — Map (db m244968) HM
The small scale and low rents of H Street's oldest buildings have lured waves of immigrant entrepreneurs since the buildings were new in the 1880s. By 1930, alongside Greek, Italian, Irish, and other immigrant-owned shops, at least 75 . . . — — Map (db m71690) HM
Ourisman Chevrolet once occupied almost the entire north side of this block. After two years as a top-performing Chevy salesman on Connecticut Avenue, and with a $2,000 loan from his widowed mother, Benjamin Ourisman opened his own dealership . . . — — Map (db m71693) HM
Henrietta Vinton Davis (1860-1941), a certified teacher by age 15, was the first black woman employed by the DC Recorder of Deeds. After serving there with Frederick Douglass, she went on to become an acclaimed actor and elocutionist (a . . . — — Map (db m187432) HM
[The mural depicts individuals on H Street Northeast, along with images from the past on several years:]
1905
1927
1947
1966
1987
2009 — — Map (db m154454) HM
Maryland Avenue in the 1930s was home to immigrants from around the Mediterranean. Evelyn Kogok Hier grew up at 1328 Maryland Avenue. She remembered her next-door neighbor, the Right Reverend Ayoub (Job) Salloom, hosting after-church gatherings . . . — — Map (db m152471) HM
Calvary Episcopal Church, half a block north at 820 Sixth Street, has been a community anchor since 1901. For most of its early years, the congregation, led by founding rector Reverend Franklin I.A. Bennett, met at 11th and G. In 1941 it . . . — — Map (db m152487) HM
The handsome church on this corner is the second to occupy this spot. The first was a small brick chapel built by John A. Douglas in 1878 for the new Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church. Soon after, it was renamed Douglas Memorial Methodist . . . — — Map (db m71691) HM
On Friday, April 5, 1968 the 600 block of H Street went up in flames. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had been assassinated a day earlier, and grief-stricken, angry men and women had taken to the streets across the city. Some took . . . — — Map (db m71692) HM
The starburst intersection of five major roads marks this spot as a transportation hub for the neighborhood and the region. Shortly after Congress arrived in Washington in 1800, city leaders chose an old farm road to create a private toll . . . — — Map (db m71688) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m71683) HM
This area, including that of the adjacent shopping center, was once the site of Columbian Harmony Cemetery. The cemetery, established in 1828 "for free persons of color," was originally located near 6th and S Streets, NW, Washington, D.C. . . . — — Map (db m146576) HM
Many distinguished Black citizens including Civil War veterans were buried in this cemetery.
These bodies now rest in the new National Harmony Memorial Park Cemetery in Maryland. — — Map (db m16069) HM
Sacred to the memory of the servant of God
Aristides Leonori
Third Order of St. Francis.
Saintly Roman architect of this memorial church and monastery of the Holy Sepulcher, Wash. D.C.
Born - July 28, 1856
Died - July 30, 1938 . . . — — Map (db m208432) HM
In loving memory
Carlo Angelo Facchina
First Mosaicista
for
the Franciscan Monastery
Born
Sequals, Italia
1870
Died
Brookland, D.C.
1948 — — Map (db m111793) HM
Corinthian Capital Circa 2nd-3rd century AD. This capital, the top of a column, is from Jerusalem. Capitals of this type can be seen in Roman buildings constructed during the time of the Roman occupation of the Holy Land. Good examples can still . . . — — Map (db m111792) HM
This building, completed in 2004, is an addition to and renovation of an earlier school building constructed on this site in 1931. — — Map (db m197692) HM
Erected to the memory of the very Reverend Commissaries of the Holy Land for the United States; who have, since 1880 contributed to the preservation of the Holy-Places and prospered the charitable missionary activities of the Franciscan Custody . . . — — Map (db m111791) HM
[Captions:]
Fort Bunker Hill from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers drawing.
Built by the 11th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment who named the fort after the Revolutionary War battle in their home state.
Other Civil War fort . . . — — Map (db m111794) HM
One of the Civil War Defenses of Washington erected in the fall of 1861, Fort Bunker Hill occupied an important position between Fort Totten and Fort Lincoln in the defense of the National Capital. Thirteen guns and mortars were mounted in the fort. — — Map (db m111795) HM
Este Templo fue consagrado
a la
Gloria de Dios
por el Excelentνsimo
Apσstol de Jesucristo
Samuel Joaquνn Flores
Washington, D.C. Julio 7 de 2002
[English translation:]
This Temple . . . — — Map (db m238259) HM
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998), internationally acclaimed artist and teacher, lived here from the 1950s into the 1970s. Born and educated in Boston, Jones joined the Howard University Art Department in 1930 and stayed for nearly 50 years. She began . . . — — Map (db m111784) HM
To commemorate the establishment of the Middle Atlantic Lieutenancy in 1993 in the United States of America, of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem
H.E. Bernard J. Ficarra, KGCHS, Lieutenant
H.E. James Cardinal . . . — — Map (db m208438) HM
Economist Robert Clifton Weaver (1907-1997) was born in Washington and grew up here in Brookland. After graduating from Dunbar High School, he earned three degrees in economics from Harvard and moved into a long career in government service. Weaver . . . — — Map (db m111796) HM
Sterling Brown (1901-1989) was a central figure of the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and '70s. Brown's work includes Southern Road (1932), The Negro in American Fiction (1937), . . . — — Map (db m111799) HM
Stone Straw Building circa 1931; site of the development of the paper drinking straw and other wound paper products by Marvin C. Stone, inventor of the paper straw. (c.1888) On this site was developed the automated equipment and manufacturing . . . — — Map (db m144339) HM
Bernard J. Ficarra, M.D., Ph.D.
Founding President
Brother Austin David Carroll, F.S.C., Ph.D.
Founding Secretary
Sustaining Academicians
John E. Albers, M.D.
Julian L. Ambrus, M.D.
George A. Antonelli, Ph.D. . . . — — Map (db m208436) HM
Dedicated in memory of the longest serving member of Engine Company 17, Wagon Driver Jackson H. Gerhart.
He was appointed on Feb. 3, 1963 and retired on Sept. 30, 1994. He succumbed to injuries sustained in the line of duty while operating . . . — — Map (db m111800) HM
This edifice is a replica of the Tomb of Mary. The Shrine as it appears today was constructed by the Crusaders in the 12th century. It is located just east of Jerusalem. — — Map (db m208439) HM
Sacred to the memory of
Very Rev. Charles A. Vissani, O.F.M.
First Commissary General of
the Holy Land for the United States
1880 - 1896
The first to conduct an American Catholic
pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1889,
and to place the . . . — — Map (db m111788) HM
Sacred to the memory of
Very Rev. Charles A. Vissani, O.F.M.
Founder of the cause of the Holy Land
in the United States
Erected to commemorate the centenary of the
First Commissariat in New York City in 1880
Fr. Charles . . . — — Map (db m111789) HM
Sacred to the memory of Very Rev. Godfrey Schilling, O.F.M. 1896-1901 Commissary 1911-1922. Founder of this Memorial Church and Monastery of the Holy Sepulcher in 1897. Fr. Godfrey was the first American Missionary to the Holy Land. By the . . . — — Map (db m111787) HM
In
loving
memory of the
Very Reverend Father
Godfrey Schilling O.F.M.
Superior
Builder of this church
Dedicated 1899
Born 1855 - Died 1934
— — Map (db m208431) HM
Dedicated by Maryland State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, April 21, 1934. Growing on land that was once a part of Maryland and was in 1790 her gift to the United States of America for the national capitol, the 31 trees in this group . . . — — Map (db m186804) HM
Of this House
The oldest part is one of the earliest buildings in this region.
Robert Sewall bought the property and enlarged the house in 1799, and rebuilt and greatly altered it after war damage in 1814.
Residence and office of . . . — — Map (db m69271) HM
To
the memory of Christopher Columbus
whose high faith
and
indomitable courage
gave to mankind
a new world
Born MCDXXXVI
Died MDIV — — Map (db m186805) HM
This residence was designed by architect Appleton P. Clark, Jr. and built in 1891 for Daniel Birtwell. In 1900, George Bruce Cortelyou occupied the house when he became secretary to President McKinley. Cortelyou continued to serve in public office . . . — — Map (db m69292) HM
Union Station
Architecture by
Daniel Burnham, 1908
Designed in the Beaux-Arts style, this was the world's largest train station when it opened - the station and terminal zone originally covered approximately 200 acres and included 75 . . . — — Map (db m8442) HM
“[The British] put a slow match to the [Sewall] house and those rockets burst until they made the rafters fly East and West.” — Enslaved African American diarist and eyewitness, Michael Shiner.
As the British . . . — — Map (db m87856) HM
This house belongs to and is for the use of the people of the State of Florida. Through their contributions the building was purchased and renovated to create Florida house, the first state house in the Nations Capital. It is dedicated to all . . . — — Map (db m113706) HM
Orator - Publisher - Statesman
Precursor of the Civil Rights Movement
An ex-slave who rose to world renown as an abolitionist and who served in high government posts under presidents Grant through Cleveland, Frederick Douglass resided in this . . . — — Map (db m69264) HM
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