The Nations Capital Begins Here 1791-1793

Jones Point Park

After the Revolutionary War, the new nation searched fora permanent seat of government. President George Washington favored a 10-mile square territory along the Potomac River that encompassed the economically important ports of Georgetown and Alexandria. In 1791, the ...

The Main Plaza

This is Castillo San Felipe del Morro’s main plaza, called the plaza de armas. Completed around 1780, it looked then much as you see it now. This plaza witnessed the activities of daily life in a Spanish fortress for more ...

Firepower

This deck housed San Cristobal’s main cannon battery. In terms of firepower, it was the strongest of the fortification’s defenses. If attackers got past defenses farther east, cannon from here would drive them back.

Did Spanish troops ever fire in ...

Logan's Speech

[Text on top front of marker]:

Logan's Elm

Height of tree 104 Ft., Spread 154 Ft.,

Circumference of Body 23 Ft.

[Text on bottom front of marker]:

Logan's Speech

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"I appeal to any white man to say if ever he entered Logan's Cabin hungry and he ...

Enterprising Families

Hub, Home, Heart

The small scale and low rents of H Street's oldest buildings have lured waves of immigrant entrepreneurs since the buildings were new in the 1880s. By 1930, alongside Greek, Italian, Irish, and other immigrant-owned shops, at least ...

A Gathering Place

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Between 1100 and 1200, more people lived in this area than ever before, or since. Located along routes linking large populations to the northeast and south, villages here were well situated for trade. As people, goods, and ideas converged ...

Mediterranean Imports

Hub, Home, Heart

Maryland Avenue in the 1930s was home to immigrants from around the Mediterranean. Evelyn Kogok Hier grew up at 1328 Maryland Avenue. She remembered her next-door neighbor, the Right Reverend Ayoub (Job) Salloom, hosting after-church gatherings where ...

Depot Historic District

Well-preserved industrial complex grouped about a railroad depot, center of railroad industry, the impetus to Meridian's growth after 1860. Included farm products processing businesses of inventor G.W. Soule.

Marker is on Front Street near 18th Avenue, on the right when traveling ...

Tanks Memorial Stadium Opening Day Nov. 25, 1926

Ironton Tanks 47, Cleveland Indians 0

November 30, 1930, was a classic Indian summer day in southern Ohio. Balmy, shirt-sleeve temperatures greeted the 10,000 football fans who flocked into old Redland Field in Cincinnati to watch the upstart, small-town Ironton Tanks ...

Wilder's Pecan Tree

Wind claimed this Pecan Tree in 2002

The Wilder's [sic] planted this tree c.1900

Courtesy hmdb.org