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Defenses of Washington Historical Markers

Collection of markers detailing the wartime fortifications around Washington, D.C.
 
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1 District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Brookland — Fort Bunker Hill — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
2 District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Brookland — Fort Bunker Hill
3 District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Fort Totten — Fort Totten — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
4 District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Fort Totten — Fort Totten
5 District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Mahaning Heights — 15 — "We're Not Forgotten" — A Self-Reliant People — Greater Deanwood Heritage Trail —
6 District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Mahaning Heights — Fort Mahan — Civil War Defenses of Washington
7 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, American University Park — 9 — And the Church Goes on — Top of the Town — Tenleytown Heritage Trail —
8 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, American University Park — Fort Bayard
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9 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — 16 — “Get Down You Fool” — Battleground to Community — Brightwood Heritage Trail —
10 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — 17 — Aunt Betty's Story — Battleground to Community — Brightwood Heritage Trail —
11 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — Fort Stevens
12 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — Fort Stevens — Rock Creek Park — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior — Reported permanently removed
13 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — Lincoln Under Fire at Fort Stevens
14 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — Scale Model of Fort Stevens
15 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Kent — Battery Kemble — One of the Civil War Defenses of Washington
16 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Kent — Battery Kemble Park — Defense of Washington
17 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Manor Park — Fort Slocum — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
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18 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Rock Creek Park — Fort De Russy — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
19 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Rock Creek Park — Fort DeRussy
20 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Rock Creek Park — Fort DeRussy — Rock Creek Park — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
21 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — 98th Pennsylvania Infantry
22 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — Battleground National Cemetery — Rock Creek Park — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
23 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — 13 — Battleground National Cemetery — Battleground to Community — Brightwood Heritage Trail —
24 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — Company K, 150th Ohio National Guard Infantry
25 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — Roll Call — Rock Creek Park — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
26 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — The 122nd New York Volunteer Infantry
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27 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Takoma — The 25th New York Cavalry
28 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — Fort Reno — Tenleytown, D.C. — Country Village to City Neighborhood —
29 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — Fort Reno — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
30 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — Fort Reno — Rock Creek Park — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
31 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — Fort Reno — Rock Creek Park — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
32 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — 5 — Fort Reno — Top of the Town — Tenleytown Heritage Trail —
33 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — 6 — Reno City — Top of the Town — Tenleytown Heritage Trail —
34 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — Reservoir / Reno City — Tenleytown, DC — Country Village to City Neighborhood —
35 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — Tennally's Town: My, How You've Grown — ©2017, Jarrett Ferrier — Funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Public Art Building Communities Grant Progra —
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36 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Tenleytown — The Civil War Defenses of Washington — Fort Reno
37 District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Anacostia — Fort Stanton — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861 – 1865 —
38 District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Benning Ridge — Fort Chaplin — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
39 District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Buena Vista — 9 — A Museum for the Community — An East-of-the-River View — Anacostia Heritage Trail —
40 District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Congress Heights — Fort Carroll — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
41 District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Fort Davis — Fort Davis — Civil War Defenses of Washington
42 District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Fort Davis — Fort Davis — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861 - 1865 —
43 District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Fort Dupont — Fort DuPont — Civil War Defenses of Washington
44 District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Fort Dupont — Fort DuPont — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861 - 1865 —
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45 District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast Washington, Woodland — Battery Ricketts — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
46 District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Bellevue — Fort Greble — Civil War Defenses of Washington — 1861-1865 —
47 District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, Southwest Waterfront — Abraham Lincoln
48 Maryland, Montgomery County, Bethesda — Artist's Conception of Battery Bailey, Circa 1862
49 Maryland, Montgomery County, Bethesda — Battery Bailey
50 Maryland, Montgomery County, Bethesda — Col. Guilford Dudley Bailey — The Fallen Union Officer for Whom the Battery Was Named
51 Maryland, Montgomery County, Bethesda — Defending the City of Washington
52 Maryland, Montgomery County, Bethesda — Fort Sumner
53 Maryland, Montgomery County, Bethesda — What is a Battery?
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54 Maryland, Prince George's County, Colmar Manor — Fort Lincoln
55 Maryland, Prince George's County, Colmar Manor — Fort Lincoln
56 Maryland, Prince George's County, Colmar Manor — Historic Fort Lincoln
57 Maryland, Prince George's County, Colmar Manor — Historic Fort Lincoln Cemetery
58 Maryland, Prince George's County, Fort Washington — 15-inch Rodman Smoothbore — Reported permanently removed
59 Maryland, Prince George's County, Fort Washington — Fort Foote — Protecting the Nation’s Capital — Reported permanently removed
60 Maryland, Prince George's County, Fort Washington — Fort Washington Park
61 Maryland, Prince George's County, Fort Washington — King's Depression Carriage — Reported permanently removed
62 Maryland, Prince George's County, Fort Washington — Northwest Bastion — Reported permanently removed
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63 Maryland, Prince George's County, Fort Washington — The Defenses of Washington — Reported permanently removed
64 Virginia, Alexandria, Old Town — Battery Rodgers
65 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — "The Fort" and "Seminary" Community — Civil War to Civil Rights — City of Alexandria, est. 1749 —
66 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — African Americans and the Civil War — Fleeing, Fighting and Working for Freedom — City of Alexandria, est. 1749 —
67 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Bombproof
68 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Entrance Gate to Fort Ward/Officers' Hut
69 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Fort Ward — 1861-1865
70 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Fort Ward — 1861-1865
71 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Fort Ward
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72 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Fort Williams
73 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Fort Worth
74 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Northwest Bastion
75 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Outlying Gun Battery — City of Alexandria, Virginia
76 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Powder Magazine and Filling Room
77 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Profile of Fort
78 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Rifle Trench
79 Virginia, Alexandria, Seminary Hill — Southwest Bastion — City of Alexandria, Virginia — Reported damaged
80 Virginia, Alexandria, Southwest Quadrant — Alexandria National Cemetery
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81 Virginia, Alexandria, Taylor Run — Fort Ellsworth
82 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Arlington Ridge — 6 — Fort Scott
83 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Army Navy Country Club — 16 — Fort Richardson — Historical Site — Defenses of Washington 1861 - 1865 —
84 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Court House — 13 — Fort Cass — Historical Site — Defenses of Washington 1861 - 1865 —
85 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Court House — 11 — Fort Woodbury — Historical Site — Defenses of Washington 1861 - 1865 —
86 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Crystal City — A Historic Junction
87 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Crystal City — Arlington Transformed by War
88 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Crystal City — Fort Runyon after the Civil War
89 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Crystal City — Fort Runyon: Defending the Capital
90 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Crystal City — Known Units Garrisoned at Fort Runyon
91 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Crystal City — The Defenses of Washington — Reported damaged
92 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Crystal City — The March Across the Long Bridge
93 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Crystal City — The Union Soldier
94 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Douglas Park — 17 — Fort Berry — Historical Site — Defenses of Washington 1861 - 1865 —
95 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Fort Myer — 12 — Fort Whipple — Historical Site — Defenses of Washington 1861 - 1865 —
96 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Green Valley — 18 — Fort Barnard — Historical Site — Defenses of Washington 1861 - 1865 —
97 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Long Bridge Park — 5 — Fort Runyon — Historical Site — Defenses of Washington 1861 - 1865 —
98 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Lyon Park — 14 — Fort Tillinghast — Historical Site — Defenses of Washington 1861 - 1865 —
99 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, North Highland — 1 — Fort Bennett
100 Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, North Highland — 9 — Fort Strong — Historical Site — Defenses of Washington 1861 - 1865 —

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Apr. 26, 2024