This photo is an aerial view of the Navy Yard just a couple of months before President Kennedy was assassinated. Aerial view of the Washington Navy Yard, looking east (top). This shot shows...
What a great old photo of the Navy Yard. Source: Dig DC...
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From the Crazy Vault / 03.09.2014
Capitol Hill Wife Murdered by Drunk Lover, Discovered by Husband Returning From Work at Navy Yard
Digging through the old newspaper archives, we uncovered a the following headline: "Found Wife Murdered; And Many Lay Dead Beside Her In Husband's Home; Believes He Did Shooting." How can we...
Guest Posts / 01.10.2013
The Leg of Ulric Dahlgren
Walking through the Navy Yard a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon an incongruous plaque embedded on the side of a building. The building was a modern parking garage, similar to...
GoDCers Love Maps / 22.07.2013
Plan for the Navy Yard in 1881
We found this great old plan for the Washington Navy Yard at the Library of Congress. It shows the position and dimensions of all the buildings as they were on June 1st, 1881. ...
This is the best contribution thus far by a member of the GoDC community. This is from Tom H. in Bethesda, and when I first saw it, I was blown away at how professional it looked....
Faces & Places of Yesterday, GoDCers Love Maps / 05.09.2012
Map of the Navy Yard Before Nationals Park
Another map! Sweet. I think GoDCer David will dig this. Most of you will dig this because these old maps are amazing. This time, we're checking out the Navy Yard circa 1921. This is the area around...
In January 1860, the Tokugawa shogunate sent a delegation to the United States with the primary objective of ratifying the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation (aka, the Harris Treaty). Commodore Matthew Perry (not Chandler) had opened Japan (forcefully)...
Your second major stop on the WABA "Down the Tubes" bicycle ride on Sunday is going to be the O Street Pumping Station, down by the Navy Yard. This is a beautiful old Beaux-Arts building from the early 20th century, and I'm a little jealous of you all, since I won't be on the ride to see it.
So, our second "Three Things..." post in support of the WABA ride will be about this building.
Here's a haunting and solemn colorized photo from 1921, much like the Lincoln photo I posted a while back. The Unknown Soldier from World War I had just arrived by ship at the Washington Navy Yard.
April 10th, 1865 -- Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered a day earlier at Appomattox Court House. The Civil War was over and the Union had been preserved.
Workmen from the Washington Navy Yard, accompanied by a band, visited Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles to congratulate them and celebrate the Union victory.
The President briefly addressed the men to thank them for their visit.