Georgetown, District of Columbia.
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Built in 1786 by Benjamin Stoddert, First Secretary of the Navy, who played a prominent role in having the capital situated here. Halcyon House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a landmark which . . .
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Built in 1786 by Benjamin Stoddert, First Secretary of the Navy, who played a prominent role in having the capital situated here. Halcyon House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a landmark which . . . (Architecture • Military • Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Patrick and Jane Hughes' strong support of education and religion helped their children and community flourish. John Hughes The third Hughes son, John, studied in the east for the priesthood and was ordained in 1895. He was . . . 
Front The citizens of Georgetown were already raising money for good causes two centuries ago. In 1796 the Mayor of Georgetown, Daniel Reintzel, was authorized to demolish a frame market house that stood on this site and . . . 
The structure to the right contains a streamgage that records water levels (state) in the Potomac River. Water levels at this site are measured by sensing the air pressure required to force air bubbles into the river. The . . . 
Mules were the "engines" for the canal boats. Normally, a boat captain had four mules. Two worked while two rested in their stall in the front of the boat. Captains usually cared for their mules as if they were part of the . . . 
Canal Square has seen more than century and a half of change in Georgetown. It is a typical brick and fieldstone industrial structure built to facilitate barge traffic on the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal. Necessary for . . . 
As you read this plaque, you are standing at the dot • on the map facing one of the five fire call boxes in the Burleith neighborhood. A star indicates each of the other four. Each call box has a plaque focusing on an . . . 
Before there was a DC Fire Department, companies from two then-separate towns — Georgetown and Washington — provided local fire protection. In 1789, Georgetown citizens purchased a hand-pumped engine and fire buckets with . . . 
This, the cornerstone of the original Christ Church, was placed here on May 5, 1968 during services commemorating the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the parish. 
Has been paced on the National Register Of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior 1988 Cambridge Historic District Est. 1990 By the U.S. Dept Of the Interior Goldsborough House Inv. #85 Historic . . . 
Rooted in Cambridge John Barth – called “one of the greatest novelists of our time” – was born in Cambridge on May 27, 1930 and grew up on Aurora Street. While living here, Barth frequented his father’s soda fountain, . . . 
In 1804-06, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led about 40 soldiers and boatmen on an epic journey. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned this “Corps of Discovery” to find a route to the Pacific Ocean through the . . . 
The Corps of Discovery entered the marshes and sloughs of the Columbia's estuary in early November of 1805, but violent weather pinned them down along the river's banks for days. While camped across the river William Clark . . . 
"Captain" John West was a self-made man. A native of Scotland, he settled on the lower Columbia River near this spot in the early 1850s after trying his luck in the goldfields of California. West built and operated sawmills, . . . 
On October 25, 1906, with an empty cargo hold and only 28 days out of Salina Cruz Mexico, the Peter Iredale ran aground. Bound for Portland and a new load of cargo, Captain H. Lawrence offered his crew a bonus if they cut . . . 
Long before today's modern paved highways, rough, muddy wagon roads provided the only inland access to Oregon's coast, and travel north or south was often on the beach at a low tide. Construction of a continuous coastal . . . 
Ritner Creek Bridge, one of the covered bridges remaining in Oregon west of the Cascades, almost became a memory in 1974. Declared structurally unsafe, it was scheduled for removal. The children of Pedee School along with . . . 
Technology in Transition The Peter Iredale was built in 1890 during the transitional period before wooden sail powered vessels were replaced with all metal steamships. Advances in iron and steel forging marked the start of . . . 
Mary Queen of Heaven Parish 1882 The holy sacrifice of the mass was first celebrated in a mission chapel just east of this site. 1883 Mary Queen of Heaven Parish was established and a church was erected on this site. . . . 
Built by USCG Yard August 30, 1946 Retired from active service April 8, 1970 In memory of those lost at sea, and to those men whose courage, initiative and unwavering devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest . . . 
