Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C.

"Oldest Post of the Corps"

Site selected by President Thomas Jefferson and Lieutenant Colonel Commandant William Ward Burrows on 31 March 1801.

A National Capital Landmark and entered in the National Register of Historic Places.

United States Marine Corps

Marker is on 8th Street, SE near I Street, SE.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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