Fort C.F. Smith

Historical Site

Defenses of Washington

1861-1865

Fort C.F. Smith

Just to the north are the remains of Fort C.F. Smith. A lunette built early in 1863 to command the high ground north of Spout Run and protect the flank of the Arlington Line. It ...

Site of Logan Elm

This plaque marks the site of the Logan Elm, under which in 1774, according to legend, Logan, Chief of the Mingoes, gave his impassioned speech of vengeance to an interpreter sent from Lord Dunmore, colonial governor of Virginia. Logan had ...

Chief Logan / Logan Elm

Side A:

Chief Logan

Tah-gah-jute, the Mingo chief named Logan, was a native of Pennsylvania. Logan moved to Ohio in 1770, and settled at the Pickaway Plains. Logan and his father, Shikellimus, had long supported friendships between Native Americans and white ...

Francis L. Cardozo High School

1928

Organized September 1928

at M Street and New York Avenue

Moved February 19, 1933

to Ninth Street and Rhode

Island Avenue, N.W.

Moved August 1950 to Thirteenth

and Clifton Street, N.W.

Marker is on Clifton Street, NW west of ...

The Grave of Arthur Lee

Nearby, in the garden of Lansdowne, was buried Arthur Lee, 1740-1792, the youngest son of Thomas Lee of Stratford. Early in 1776 he secretly obtained the original grant of French military supplies for the Continental Army, which made possible the ...

Fort C.F. Smith

Protecting the Capital

The ramps in front of you, now covered with grass, led to wooden platforms on which the various cannons were placed. When built in 1863, Fort C.F. Smith had platforms for twenty-two artillery pieces and four siege ...

North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati

Formed Oct. 23, 1783, in

Hillsborough, by officers

of the Continental Line.

First President was Gen-

eral Jethro Sumner.

Marker is on S Churton Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort C.F. Smith

Mr. Lincoln’s Forts

Fort C.F. Smith was constructed in 1863 on farmland appropriated from William Jewell. The fort was named in honor of Gen. Charles Ferguson Smith, who was instrumental in the Union victory at Fort Donelson, Tennessee in 1862. The ...

To the Farthest Port

In the late 1700s and early 1800s Salem’s ships reached out to the world. From this wharf alone between 1785 and 1799, shipowner Elias Hasket Derby dispatched 170 trading vessels on pioneering voyages to China, India, the East Indies, and ...

Site of First Ybor City Railroad Station

1887

The station of the Plant System was located here in the early days of this budding tobacco center. During the struggle for Cuban Independence Ybor City became a nest of insurgents. Through this station passed conspirators, spies, and many notable ...