Historical Markers and War Memorials in Fort McNair
Fort McNair and Vicinity
▶ Washington(1957) ▶ Montgomery County, Maryland(529) ▶ Prince George's County, Maryland(523) ▶ Alexandria, Virginia(297) ▶ Arlington County, Virginia(368) ▶ Fairfax County, Virginia(474)
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Near 2nd Avenue north of C Street, on the right when traveling north.
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 . . . — — Map (db m64922) HM
On 3rd Avenue north of C Street, on the left when traveling north.
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 . . . — — Map (db m29740) HM
On 4th Avenue at C Street, on the right when traveling north on 4th Avenue.
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 . . . — — Map (db m29739) HM
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