Industrial Bank of Washington

2000 11th Street, NW

Industrial Bank stands as a testament to the Black business movement that began in the 1880s in downtown Washington and spread to the U Street area by the 1900s. Industrial Bank was the only Black-owned financial ...

Frederick County / Washington County

[ South Facing Side: ]Frederick CountyNamed for Frederick 5th and last Lord Baltimore. Erected out of Prince George’s County in 1748. It then included Montgomery County and all of Maryland west to the West Virginia boundary.

[ North Facing Side: ]Washington ...

George Washington’s Coffee Bean Tree

This Coffee Bean Tree a Scion

of a Tree planted at Mount Vernon by

George Washington

A Tree which he raised from

Seed Brought Back by Him from the

Ohio Valley in 1784

Replanted Here – 1954

Marker can be ...

Washington Street

This street is named for George Washington, commander of the Continental Army throughout the Revolution, first President of the United States, and president of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. Early in his presidency, Washington toured the southern states. He visited South ...

Washington and Old Dominion Trail

W & OD Trail.

The 100-foot-wide Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park (W&OD Trail) features a 45-mile asphalt trail for walking, running, skating, bicycling and other activities and a 33-mile parallel, gravel bridle path for horseback riding and biking. The ...

To George Washington

To George Washington by the State of Maryland.

Born 22 February 1732. Died 14 December 1799.

To George Washington by the State of Maryland.

Commander in Chief of the American Army, 15 June 1775. Commission resigned at Annapolis, 23 December 1783.

To George Washington ...

George Washington Bicentennial

In Commemoration Of The

Bi-Centennial Anniversary Of The Birth Of

George Washington

These Trees Are Dedicated

Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1932

Participating Organizations

American Legion, Eddy Glover Post No. 6 • American Legion Auxiliary, No. 6 • Order of Ahepa Elpis, C-117 • Andree Lodge, ...

Washington’s First Journey to the Frontier

On March 11, 1748, George Washington and George William Fairfax crossed the Occoquan above the falls near here – Washington to enter the service of Lord Fairfax, and Lord Fairfax to meet his constituents in Frederick County. They traveled by ...

The Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

On this site French Troops under Le Comte De Rochambeau encamped August 29, 1781 en route to meeting Gen. George Washington and achieving their victory at Yorktown, American independence was assured there in Virginia by the defeat and surrender of ...

Washington’s Headquarters

Since Pompton was on the

main route North, the Conti-

nental army camped here

often. Washington quartered

at the Schuyler House, July

12, 1777, and visited Col-

onel Van Cortlandt here,

March 28, 1782.

Marker is at the intersection of Hamburg Turnpike and Wanaque Avenue, on the ...