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In 1781, the American and French allies combined their armies at a pivotal turning point in the Revolutionary War. Under the command of General George Washington and French General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, the armies . . . — — Map (db m101116) HM
The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (SNDdeN). The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur were founded in 1804 by Saint Julie Billiart to spread the message “Ah, how good it is to serve God.” In 1840, at the request of Bishop John B. Purcell in 1840, the . . . — — Map (db m227783) HM
(Front):Brevet Major General James Samuel Wadsworth United States Volunteers 1807 - 1864 in command of First Division First Army Corps at the Battle of Gettysburg July 1, 2, 3 1863 (Back): Volunteer aid-de-camp with the rank of . . . — — Map (db m15349) HM
Dedicated April 19, 1997
to honor the memory of
Martha Dixon Martinez
Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
1977 graduate of Mt. Lebanon High School
Special Agent Martinez made the supreme sacrifice while responding to . . . — — Map (db m260765) HM
Lieutenant Henry Wells Jackson (March 10, 1827-May 27, 1864), was the only Utah battle fatality of the Civil War and the first-known Latter-Day Saint to be killed in a U.S. national conflict. Jackson marched in the Mormon Battalion, Company D, . . . — — Map (db m302393) HM
This tide lock of the Alexandria Canal was one of four lock that together lowered boats about 38 feet to the Potomac River and raised them for their return trip. The remains of the other locks are now buried under modern construction.
This . . . — — Map (db m129199) HM
Arlington County. This county, formerly Alexandria County, was formed in 1847 from the part of the District of Columbia retroceded to Virginia. It was named Arlington County in 1920 for Arlington estate.
Fairfax County. Formed in 1742 . . . — — Map (db m210359) HM
During the Civil War, many escaped and freed slaves traveled north seeking refuge in Union camps. Thousands crowded into the Federal City. The number of refugees quickly overwhelmed the area’s resources. Overcrowding and disease became prevalent. . . . — — Map (db m5293) HM
Arlington County. Area 31 square miles. This county, formerly Alexandria County, was formed in 1847 from the part of the District of Columbia retroceded to Virginia. It was named Arlington County in 1920 for Arlington estate. . . . — — Map (db m210362) HM
Town was incorporated in 1875. A simple frame town hall was built here about 1880 on 1/4 acre (part of 1729 248-acre Trammell grant). Town Hall bell was rung for council meetings and fires. Later used only for police station. Torn down in 1953. Town . . . — — Map (db m2871) HM
In 1861, small farms surrounded Bull Run. Small roads were the main transportation routes to the Warrenton Turnpike (Route 29), Sudley Road (Route 234) and the Manassas Gap Railroad. The entrance road here follows a section of a 19th-century farm . . . — — Map (db m2479) HM
The 42nd Division composed of National Guard units from 26 states and the District of Columbia including Co. "F" Oshkosh, Co. "G" Appleton, Co. "E" Fond du Lac was formed August 1917. The 42nd Rainbow Division was named by Colonel Douglas MacArthur, . . . — — Map (db m26153) HM
Have you ever wondered?
In a city with nearly equal numbers of Black and white residents, why is Ward 3's population 70% white and 8% Black?
Since at least the 1700's, Black people have lived and thrived in the area, . . . — — Map (db m259716) HM
Lion of Anacostia
Born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) rose to prominence as one of the nation's leading abolitionists in the years before the Civil War. Remembered as an author, publisher, orator, . . . — — Map (db m311556) HM
The Alexandria Custom House stood here in 1917. Built in 1858, the third floor of the three-story granite building housed the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. On November 27, 1917, a hearing in that courtroom would play a . . . — — Map (db m182671) HM
Worsening Conditions at the District of Columbia Jail and the Occoquan Workhouse
"The next lot of women who come here won't be treated with the same consideration that these women were."
Raymond Whittaker, Occoquan . . . — — Map (db m197359) HM
Originaire de Rivière-du-Loup, McLoughlin fut d'abord médecin avant de se joindre à la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest en 1806. En 1814, il devint partenaire hivernant et, en 1820, il dirigea un groupe de dissidents qui désiraient s'unir à la . . . — — Map (db m124288) HM
Born in Alexandria, Virginia, relocated to 203 E. 10th Street, Wilmington, Delaware. Redding graduated from Howard High School in 1919, and with honors from Brown University in 1923. After college, Redding taught in Florida, and at Morehouse . . . — — Map (db m217947) HM
This friendship archway was erected by the District of Columbia and the Municipality of Beijing, 1986.
Marion Barry, Jr.
Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Chen Xitong
Mayor, Beijing Municipal Government — — Map (db m9161) HM
The 1100 and 1200 blocks of Girard Street once were home to a “Who’s Who” of African American leaders. This and nearby “double-blocks” are the heart of John Sherman’s Columbia Heights subdivision. By placing all houses 30 feet from the . . . — — Map (db m130747) HM
The Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School was one of the first publicly funded schools for African-American children in Washington, DC after the abolition of slavery in 1865. Built in 1868, the school is named after abolitionist and U.S. congressman . . . — — Map (db m283661) HM
Billions for the war,
and a bunker
for the president
The grand, pillared United States Treasury building that stands before you, its first section designed by Robert Mills in 1836, was the financial command center for the Union. It . . . — — Map (db m130407) HM
This tree is dedicated to the more than half million veterans, taxpayers, and citizens of the District of Columbia who, despite fighting in foreign wars, paying their full measure of taxes and faithfully serving their country, continue to have no . . . — — Map (db m112632) WM
This Property is listed in
The National Register
of Historic Places
as a National Landmark for its
architectural and cultural contributions
to the District of Columbia — — Map (db m172187) HM
One of this country’s most distinguished river, harbor and shoreline engineers, he was led by civic concerns to become the noted original author of the familiar parliamentary manual, Robert's Rules of Order.
Robert served in the . . . — — Map (db m31140) HM
Georgetown University is committed to sustainability to advance the common good for current and future generations. The University takes an integrated and holistic approach to sustainability, placing value on a "quadruple" bottom line: people, . . . — — Map (db m211970) HM
Before there was a DC Fire Department, companies from two then-separate towns — Georgetown and Washington — provided local fire protection. In 1789, Georgetown citizens purchased a hand-pumped engine and fire buckets with funds raised . . . — — Map (db m113420) HM
The African Diaspora Ancestral Commemoration Institute (ADACI) is a Washington D.C. nonprofit 501(c)(3) founded in 1992, which institutionalizes the commemoration of the millions of African ancestors who perished during the Middle Passage — the . . . — — Map (db m294008) HM
This imposing property once belonged to Anacostia’s most famous resident: Frederick Douglass. After escaping slavery as a young man, Douglass rose to become a distinguished abolitionist, writer, publisher, and orator. By the 1860s Douglass . . . — — Map (db m88723) HM
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. This memorial grove of scarlet oaks represent the . . . — — Map (db m129791) HM
Completed in 1932, Arlington Memorial Bridge was built in a neoclassical style and extended Pierre L'Enfant's (1754-1825) original plans for the District of Columbia. The bridge was designed by the prominent architectural firm of McKim, Mead and . . . — — Map (db m150819) HM
This 3,800 pound, 17th century Japanese Pagoda arrived in the Nation’s Capital in 1957 as a gift from Mayor Ryozo Hiranuma of Yokohama, Japan. Its parts packed in five shipping crates with no assembly instructions, the pagoda required the staff of . . . — — Map (db m61900) HM
Settled in the early 1830’s this town was first named Tobanana for the nearby creek. The Tobanana post office was established January 10, 1833, and the name was changed to Georgetown September 21, 1836, in honor of Georgetown, District of . . . — — Map (db m46588) HM
December 16, 1944 - January 25, 1945
Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes
Dedicated to the Gallant and Victorious Men and Women of the United States Army who participated in The Battle of the Bulge
This enormous and . . . — — Map (db m19631) HM
In the nineteenth century, boats along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal transported coal from Cumberland, Maryland to Georgetown in the District of Columbia. By the early twentieth century, trains had replaced boats as a means of transportation and . . . — — Map (db m295622) HM
For many decades prior to the founding of Mount Rainier, Bunker Hill Road — one block north of this location — and Bladensburg Road to the south provided the local farms with access into the District of Columbia and to the port of . . . — — Map (db m289732) HM
A native of Norlina, North Carolina and son of Howard A. Donald and Doris Donald.
Kirk Donald joined the United States Navy on June 30, 1971 as a midshipman of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He graduated in 1975 . . . — — Map (db m222555) HM
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a national association of Union Civil War veterans, founded in Springfield, Il, in 1866. Ten states, including Ohio, and the District of Columbia sent representatives to the GAR's first national convention . . . — — Map (db m297908) HM
On July 31 - August 1, 1874, chemists from 15 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and England met here to celebrate the centennial of the discovery of oxygen by Priestley. Discussions at that meeting led to the founding in 1876 of the . . . — — Map (db m176925) HM
Asbury Francis Lever served in Congress, 1901–1919. On May 8, 1914, the Smith-Lever Act, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Lever, was signed into law, providing for cooperative agricultural extension services to be . . . — — Map (db m9568) HM
Founded in 1905 by Galveston business pioneer W. L. Moody, Jr. (1865-1954), American National opened for business on third floor of the Moody Building at 22nd and Strand streets in Galveston. At that time the home office staff numbered ten. By . . . — — Map (db m174338) HM
During World War I and II army troops were transported around France in trains. Troops were frequently loaded into boxcars which were boldly stenciled with their carrying capacity: “Hommes 40-Cheveaux 8” (40 men or 8 horses).
The Merci . . . — — Map (db m273347) HM
Alexandria was established by Virginia's colonial assembly in 1749, over four decades the U.S. Congress authorized creation of a national capital on the banks of the Potomac River. Once the final site for the Federal city was selected by President . . . — — Map (db m141166) HM
Before the Civil War, the only full-time Huntley residents were those who worked the land: the enslaved people and the overseers. They labored to raise profitable crops of wheat, oats, rye, and corn for the Masons.
In August 1828, Bob, a . . . — — Map (db m144205) HM
"Kaiser Wilson, have you forgotten your sympathy with the poor Germany because they were not self-governed? 20,000,000 American women are not self-governed."
From a . . . — — Map (db m197355) HM
Victories in 1917: New York Approved Suffrage and Prisoners Released
"Self-respecting and patriotic American women will no longer tolerate a government which denies women the right to govern themselves."
Alva . . . — — Map (db m197363) HM
A private residence listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. Registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark by the Virginia Board of Historic Resources.
Thomas Swann House, 1802-1833. . . . — — Map (db m145963) HM
On, May 18,1966, crowds gathered here to witness Lady
Bird Johnson (1912-2007) rededicate eight acres of Watts Branch Park.
“No one more than the residents of this area knows what magic has been
wrought here at Watts Branch,” observed . . . — — Map (db m130785) HM
Born on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina, Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of sharecroppers. After attending Scotia Seminary in North Carolina she founded Daytona School for Negro Girls which became Bethune-Cookman College. A . . . — — Map (db m17502) HM
The old Willard Hotel was the scene of the last major effort to restore the Union and prevent the Civil War. At Virginia's invitation, delegates from twenty-one of the then thirty-four states met in secret session from February 4 to 27, 1861, in a . . . — — Map (db m6541) HM
Andrew Ellicott, commissioned by President Washington to survey the 31° North latitude as the southern boundary of the United States by the Treaty of San Lorenzo with Spain, arrived in Natchez on February 24, 1797, and on this hill, a few days . . . — — Map (db m288897) HM
Born in Farmington February 16, 1812, Jeremiah Jones Colbath, this self-educated farm boy changed his name when of age to Henry Wilson. He became a teacher, member of Congress, United States Senator and took office as Vice President under President . . . — — Map (db m151943) HM
North Face:
To All Who Fought For Their Country
Camp Albert L. Mills
Birthplace of the Rainbow Division
West Face:
1917–1919
To The Rainbow Division
Which first occupied Camp Mills, and which went forth . . . — — Map (db m285796) WM
Lucy Slowe, educator, was born in Berryville.
In 1908, while attending Howard University,
she became a founding member of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority, the first Greek letter organization
for African American women, and was elected
its first . . . — — Map (db m104725) HM
Welcome to the Robert F. Lederer Environmental Education Center and Youth Garden. This center honors Robert F. Lederer, the Executive Vice President of the American Association of Nurserymen during the United States President Lyndon B. Johnson's . . . — — Map (db m130779) HM
Ecological & Historical Significance of Shad
Shade are migratory fish in the Atlantic Ocean and swim into the fresh water rivers and streams of the Chesapeake Bay each year to spawn. Fish with this life cycle are called anadromous. Each . . . — — Map (db m237161) HM
[Plaque on sculpture along 20th Street]
A Celebration of Chuck Brown
(1936-2012)
The fundamental force behind Go-Go music -- Using music, story-telling, and rhythm to help create a culture of inclusion and participation in . . . — — Map (db m130826) HM
Bloomingdale of the 1940s and '50s was a village of high expectations. Within a block of this sign lived four young women who grew up to be judges.
Anna Diggs Taylor rose to chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Michigan. The . . . — — Map (db m302216) HM
Even before emancipation freed Washington's enslaved people in April 1862, a free African American community had developed here amid the European American farmers. The District of Columbia, unlike its neighbors, permitted the formerly enslaved . . . — — Map (db m143796) HM
"You are the trustees of the planet.
Cherish it, love it—it is all we have."
The George Washington University
Commencement
February 16, 1992
This park was established to honor the memory of John A. . . . — — Map (db m114964) HM
Almost a miniature Gothic cathedral, Christ Church behind you was built in 1885. It is the third building to occupy the spot since a group of Georgetown Episcopalians founded the parish in 1817. Among the founders were Francis Scott Key, author of . . . — — Map (db m113421) HM
The early mansions of wealthy ship owners, merchants and land speculators in this part of Georgetown were built high above the Potomac River with fine views, or prospects, of the harbor filled with ships and the wilds of Virginia on the other . . . — — Map (db m113401) HM
One of the primary landscape features of the property is the wide and gently sloping South Lawn which served both ornamental and functional purposes. Influenced by late 18th century English landscape design with informal and naturalistic, rather . . . — — Map (db m241120) HM
Funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities,
Public Art Building Communities Grant Program
DC Commission on
The Arts & Humanities
The name Glover Park which first appeared in advertisements in 1926, honors the . . . — — Map (db m113383) HM
Holy Trinity Catholic Church established Holy Rood Cemetery as its parish cemetery on high ground above Georgetown in 1832. The cemetery was expanded in 1853 to the 6.5 acres it is today. Originally known as the Upper Graveyard, in 1886 the . . . — — Map (db m155228) HM
Listed on the United States Register of Historic Places and
an officially designated Landmark of the District of Columbia
Maintained by the Jewish Historical Society of
Greater Washington as the
Lillian and Albert Small
Jewish Museum . . . — — Map (db m29797) HM
Limestone of Lost Legacies is a mural project to memorialize five teens who lost their lives to gun violence in the 2017-2018 school year in the District of Columbia. The five lives being commemorated are a snapshot of the widespread epidemic of . . . — — Map (db m152722) HM
Site of the First Free School for Negro Children in the District of Columbia given by Joseph S. Martin May 21, 1939.
Garnet C. Wilkinson, First Asst. Supt. •
Howard H. Long, Asst. Supt. •
A. Kiger Savoy , Asst. Supt. •
Corinne E. . . . — — Map (db m212133) HM
“… 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, . . . — — Map (db m130604) HM
The Topeka chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) recruited 13 African American parents to file a lawsuit contesting the state law that allowed cities like Topeka to segregate students in elementary . . . — — Map (db m81393) HM
In 1946 Mr. George A. (Jay) Chadwick, Jr. bought the Gold Mine Farm which now makes up a large part of Black Hill Regional Park. He cleared the property of brush and Fieldstone for a dairy farm which was operated for many years. This beautiful stone . . . — — Map (db m90477) HM
The first Anglican chapel in or near Rockville was built in 1739 on a two-acre parcel of land that is now part of Rockville Cemetery. It was constructed of clapboards and logs and known as both the "Chapel of Ease" and Rock Creek Chapel. . . . — — Map (db m293683) HM
She was born in Poolesville on November 13, 1917, grew up in Dickerson, graduated from Rockville Colored High School in 1934, and received her first degree in elementary education from Hampton Institute in 1942. Her thirst for higher education . . . — — Map (db m205944) HM
On July 11-12, 1864, General Jubal Early's 20,000 Confederate troops marched down Georgia Avenue (formerly Seventh Street Turnpike), in their attack on Fort Stevens in the District of Columbia (1). Francis Preston Blair's vacant home (2) "Silver . . . — — Map (db m37580) HM
William Sidney Pittman was born in Montgomery Alabama in 1875 to a laundress and an unknown father. At the age of seventeen, he began studying at Tuskegee Institute located in Tuskegee Alabama. He later attended Drexel Institute, Philadelphia . . . — — Map (db m143017) HM
This boxcar is one of 49 gift-filled rail cars that composed the Merci Train, also known as the French Gratitude Train, sent to the American people in 1949 by the citizens of France. The gift of the Merci Train was a spontaneous act of gratitude . . . — — Map (db m96574) HM
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) was the preeminent sculptor of the Gilded Age of American art. He not only created some of the country’s finest landmarks but also helped to foster arts education and the collaboration between artists that . . . — — Map (db m150948) HM
Cooke-Dorn House. The house is named for its first and last private owners. Built for
Eleutheros and Martha Cooke in 1843-1844, this Greek Revival home was originally located on the corner of Columbus Avenue and West Washington Row. Rush . . . — — Map (db m182693) HM
The Grove of the States includes a tree representing each state in the USA and the District of Columbia. The idea for the Grove of the States was conceived by Oregon Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton to honor the passage of Lady Bird Jonson's 1965 . . . — — Map (db m127210) HM
This is one of the 49 boxcars from the "Gratitude Train" given to the United States by a grateful French people in response to the 700 car "Friendship Train" sent to France after World War II. Each state and the District of Columbia has received . . . — — Map (db m112641) HM
On November 10, 1947, Ogden hosted the "Friendship Train" for Utah, contributing 3 boxcars of food and aid to the people of France after World War II. In all, over 700 boxcars of supplies were sent from United States citizens to aid in the dire . . . — — Map (db m273348) HM
From the late 1700s into the 1800s, the pastoral calm of the Point was interrupted repeatedly—by soldiers manning cannon emplacements, by surveyors laying out the boundaries of the nation's capital, by workers at a ropewalk and the lighthouse, . . . — — Map (db m62029) HM
Few periods of Alexandria's history have been more tumultuous than the War of 1812. During the first decade of the 19th century, Great Britain's interception of American ships, impressment of U.S. seamen, and support of Indian aggression along the . . . — — Map (db m115769) HM
As the Confederate infantry under General John Gordon and cavalry led by General Fitzhugh Lee pushed back Colonel Charles Smith's Federal Cavalry brigade from the road to the east, Federal General Ranald Mackenzie's troopers of the 5th Pennsylvania, . . . — — Map (db m292023) HM
Pimmit Run is a stream that runs from the Pimmit Hills neighborhood in Falls Church and joins the Potomac River immediately south of Chain Bridge. The mouth of Pimmit Run provided Native Americans and settlers access to fresh water and fishing, . . . — — Map (db m295035) HM
The Chesapeake Bay is the second largest estuary in the world.
Fresh water from 6 states and the District of Columbia meet the ocean in the bay, mixing to create somewhat salty brackish water.
The Bay is a productive ecosystem that supports . . . — — Map (db m266137) HM
[English]
Justifiably described as “the father of British Columbia”, Douglas was born in Demerara. He joined the North West Company in 1819, serving at Fort William and Ile a la Crosse where he was taken into the Hudson’s Bay Company. . . . — — Map (db m48769) HM
This reproduction of the Liberty Bell was placed on permanent display at the Treasury by direction of Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder. It is a duplicate of the original Liberty Bell in tone as well as in structural details and . . . — — Map (db m70759) HM
Fort Mahan
Civil War Defenses of Washington
1861-1865
Earthworks of Fort Mahan are visible; follow path at the top of the hill.
[Illustration:]
Fort Mahan from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers drawing.
- Fort . . . — — Map (db m46083) HM
Bloomingdale of the 1940s and '50s was a village of high expectations. Within a block of this sign lived four young women who grew up to be judges.
Anna Diggs Taylor rose to chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Michigan. The . . . — — Map (db m130843) HM
Between 1892 and 1937, the Rock Creek Railway streetcar ran along the newly extended Connecticut Avenue from Seventh Street in the District of Columbia into Maryland. It went past the recently opened National Zoo, around Chevy Chase . . . — — Map (db m295165) HM
In Memory of Our Beloved Brother
William Howard Taft
Founder of The University Club of Washington DC
27th President of the United States
10th Chief Justice of the United States
Rededicated by the Grand Lodge of the Free And . . . — — Map (db m129557) HM
The National Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
honors
Lena Santos Ferguson
District of Columbia DAR Member 1984-2004
For her dedication, activism, and service making the DAR a more inclusive and better organization. Her . . . — — Map (db m314826) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m129836) HM
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