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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQHL_site-of-rhodes-tavern_Washington-DC.html
[First Panel]:Built in 1799, in the hope that the new capital would become a great city.
Opened as a tavern and inn by William Rhodes, 1801.
Washington's first 'town hall,' where White House architect James Hoban and other citizens met to pe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO6A_clara-barton-angel-of-the-battlefield-at-home_Washington-DC.html
"I have paid the rent of a room in Washington ... retaining it merely as a shelter to which I might return when my strength should fail me under exposure and labor at the field." Clara Barton, December 1863.
In November 1997, Richard Lyons pee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO68_missing-soldiers_Washington-DC.html
Missing Soldiers.Office, 3rd Floor, Room 9Miss Clara Barton
Clara Barton is famous for her fierce determination and courage to save lives on the Civil War battlefields, and later for founding the American Red Cross.
1861-1865: During the Civ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLBU_chief-petty-officers_Washington-DC.html
The rank of chief petty officer - the senior position among naval enlisted ranks - was established by the Navy Department in 1893. A time capsule was placed within this foundation on 13 October 1993 to be opened in the chiefs' bicentennial year 20…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK29_national-council-of-negro-women_Washington-DC.html
The National Council of Negro Women was founded in 1935 by Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) to "harness the power and extend the leadership of African American women." Early on, the Council campaigned to outlaw the discriminatory poll tax, develop …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJRM_pennsylvania-avenue_Washington-DC.html
"Main Street" for the city and the nation.
Just a few steps ahead is Pennsylvania Avenue the inaugural parade route for every president since Thomas Jefferson and "Main Street" for local Washington since the city's founding. Jefferson planted t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJQ8_john-j-pershing-general-of-the-armies-1860-1948_Washington-DC.html
[Panel 1]:On 6 April 1917, the United States entered World War I. With few regular forces, the task of training and transporting an effective army to fight in France was formidable. The U.S. Navy, acting swiftly to combat the German submarine mena…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJPV_the-united-states-treasury_Washington-DC.html
Billions for the war, and a bunker for the presidentThe grand, pillared United States Treasury building that stands before you, its first section designed by Robert Mills in 1836, was the financial command center for the Union. It was here between…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ2U_abraham-lincoln-walked-here_Washington-DC.html
"Tonight, beautiful women, perfume, and the violins' sweetness ... [yet during the war] the amputation, the blue face, the groan, the glassy eye of the dying." Walt Whitman
At 10:30 p.m. on March 4, 1865, a tired and gaunt President Lincoln ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ0B_the-christian-index_Washington-DC.html
America's oldest existing religious newspaper was first published on this city block at 925 E Street on February 2, 1822. Founded by the legendary Baptist leader Luther Rice, the paper was originally known as The Columbian Star and utilized to pro…