Today is a day off for most people, and thus time for another rerun (This rerun was meant to run on Monday, but didn’t because we were taking the day off too and oops! Sorry about that. –MHC). And, as it’s the 4th of July, the appropriate topic is beer. I am particularly pleased to […]
I wrote last week about an early steam engine installed at the Washington Navy Yard. Today, we’ll look at a newer, better one. – ad the man who designed it. A sawmill had been part of the Navy Yard since at least 1810, and it was an improved version of this one that burned in […]
I recently finally read Gordon Brown’s book The Captain Who Burned His Ships, about Thomas Tingey and his building – and rebuilding – of the Washington Navy Yard. I learned a fair bit along the way, including new information about one of my favorite characters in Navy Yard – and Washington D.C. – history: Benjamin […]
While the suggestion to turn over the Quaker Guns to the Washington Navy Yard that I wrote about last week was really a joke, the Navy Yard did have a number of cannons displayed, both as memorials to previous war as well as to see what the current enemy was up to. Today, we will […]
Today’s topic isn’t so much ‘lost’ as ‘no longer easily accessible.’ The collection of cannons collected during wars past still graces the Washington Navy Yard, but access to it has been severely restricted since last year. The first public monument in Washington – and the first at the Washington Navy Yard – was the Tripoli monument, […]