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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Palisades
Palisades and Vicinity
▶ Washington (1956) ▶ Montgomery County, Maryland (534) ▶ Prince George's County, Maryland (524) ▶ Alexandria, Virginia (297) ▶ Arlington County, Virginia (369) ▶ Fairfax County, Virginia (474)
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| Near Canal Road Northwest north of Reservoir Road Northwest, on the left when traveling north. |
| | This house witnessed the building of the C&O Canal. Abner Cloud, a miller who had come here from Pennsylvania, built the house in 1801. Cloud's mill was about 200 yards upstream. The basement of the house was used by Cloud to store grain and flour, . . . — — Map (db m722) HM |
| On Capital Crescent Trail. |
| | Baking bread, frying cornbead and eating "stick to your ribs" oatmeal, all have one thing in common; their ingredients started out at a grist mill. Decades before the sounds of lockhorns and mule hooves clopping by, mills were popping up along the . . . — — Map (db m129837) HM |
| On Capital Crescent Trail (at milepost 9), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Here, in 1876, an engineering marvel was built. The largest incline plane in the world and the first built in the United States, carried canal boats to and from the Potomac River. The incline plane was used to help clear heavy boat traffic in . . . — — Map (db m129838) HM |
| On Sherier Place Northwest just south of Edmunds Place Northwest, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Inhabitants
When Captain John Smith first sailed up the Potomac in 1608, he encountered several Native American villages on both sides of the river in what was later to become the District of Columbia. Various names have been assigned to . . . — — Map (db m144993) HM |
| On MacArthur Boulevard Northwest 0.1 miles north of Dana Place Northwest, on the left when traveling north. |
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The United States flag was replaced by the Brazilian flag on the stern mast during a transfer ceremony of a submarine chaser (SC) from the United States Navy to the Brazilian Navy.
Solenidade de recebimento, pela Marinha . . . — — Map (db m144991) HM |
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