DOCSLIB.ORG

Congcemeterynlwinter2010:Layout 1

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Congcemeterynlwinter2010:Layout 1 Heritage Gazette ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY •WINTER 2010 Ten Years of Progress s we close out the ’00 decade it ing Grant; the beginning of a seems timely to look back at six-fold increase in community- some of the highlights of the last based membership, currently ten years. The decade started 3500 members. with a disillusioned board of ’01 K9 members raise $20,000 Adirectors, no staff, no funding, no for the Endowment Fund and maintenance, no pride, no hope. donations for yard sale Today we have a vibrant board, fill chapel wall to wall to raise professional staff, solid financials $3,000. and budgeting processes, routine ’02 — Community based her- maintenance and restoration itage festival; Save America’s efforts, and a lot of confidence in Treasures stone restoration grant. our future. Here are just a few Revival of the Association quar- highlights from the ’00 decade. terly newsletter. ’00 — Creation of the Con- ’03 — Restoration of five gressional Endowment I Match- Continued on page 7 Past Meets Present in Green Burials ecently, HCC conducted our als to those who choose them first green burial. Interestingly, it for any reason. Not only is this wasn’t twenty first-century envi- option environmentally sensitive, ronmental consciousness that but it also has the potential to Rprompted the family to choose save the family thousands in this option. Rather, the family of funeral costs. Much of the the deceased was honoring a expense of burial goes to the custom that dates back thousands coffin, the outer burial container of years: to have a simple burial (also called a vault), and embalm- in a plain pine coffin within 24 ing. Because we are a small, non- hours of death. And while not profit cemetery, not a large cor- every religious tradition demands porate one, we do not need to similar rites, we at HCC look encourage our site-owners to forward to providing green buri- Continued on page 8 CHAIRMAN TRUMPETS MAJOR MILESTONE (P. 2) WWW.CONGRESSIONALCEMETERY.ORG HERITAGE GAZETTE / WINTER 2010 1 Letter from the Chair WOW! On December 14, 2009, the the National Trust for His- Executive Committee of the toric Preservation. The Associ- ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF Association met at the offices ation role: match the million. HISTORIC CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY of the National Trust for His- Daunting though that chal- Community • Leadership • Discovery toric Preservation to hand over lenge seemed at the time, BOARD OF DIRECTORS a check for $175,000 to com- Linda Harper guided a some- Patrick Crowley, Chair Joyce Palmer Linda Harper, Vice Chair Jan Gaudio plete the match for Endow- times begrudging Board to John Gillespie, Treasurer Emily Crandall ment I. To quote long time make the match a high priori- Alice Norris, Secretary Ted Bechtel former board member C. Dud- ty in every year’s budget Clyde Henderson C. Dudley Brown Patti Martin ley Brown: Wow! thereafter. Repairing grave- Frederick Davis Uwe Brandes When I joined the Board of stones would have to wait, Scott Kibler Rhonda Sincavage Directors in 2000, along with web site and computer FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE Linda Harper former chair Linda Harper, our upgrades would bid their Clyde Henderson financial horizon didn’t look time, and educational pro- HORTICULTURE COMMITTEE much further than the next grams would cool their heels. Emily Crandall, Fine Gardening Ted Bechtol, Lawn Care month’s grass mowing bill. The Matching that million dollar EDUCATION & OUTREACH COMMITTEE 1990s were a hard time for the fund required many sacrifices Joyce Palmer, Music & Docents District of Columbia, Capitol on many fronts. It was a long Sandy Schmidt, Web Master Patrick Crowley, Newsletter Hill, and Congressional Ceme- hard road. ARCHIVES & GENEALOGY COMMITTEE tery. Although the Association A decade later, I had the Sandy Schmidt & Dayle Dooley had enjoyed a respectable level pleasure of handing over PLANNING COMMITTEE Uwe Brandes of success in the 1980s, the 90s the final check to complete Jan Gaudio saw a near collapse of the Asso- the work of Jim and Linda EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ciation as funding dried up, establishing a permanent Cindy Hays CEMETERY MANAGER support waned, and the FBI $2,000,000 fund for the care Alan Davis opened an investigation into and maintenance of Congres- STAFF embezzlement. In 2000, the sional Cemetery. Never again Terri Maxfield Barry Hayman Third Millennia dawned on a will the grass be four feet HERITAGE GAZETTE: W INTER 2009 national treasure with a ques- high and the grounds littered © 2009. Association for the Preservation of His- toric Congressional Cemetery, a non profit tionable future. with dead trees. The fund 501(c)(3) organization. All donations are fully tax- From the depths of that dark assures a cornerstone of our deductible according federal tax laws. Funding for the preservation and maintenance of Historic place, our former chairman, annual budget will always be Congressional Cemetery is provided (in part) by Jim Oliver reached out to there no matter what calami- the Congressional Cemetery Endowment, which was created with matching funds provided by the Congressman Tom Walsh ties may lie ahead. Looking U.S. Congress and administered by the National (R-NY) for help. The result back on that journey I can Trust for Historic Preservation. Postal Service, send address changes to: was the establishment of a only say:Wow! THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF $1,000,000 matching endow- Now we begin on Endow- HISTORIC CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY 1801 E Street, Southeast ment fund, created by Con- ment II… Washington, DC 20003 gress, overseen by the Architect 202-543-0539 • 202-543-5966 (fax) www.congressionalcemetery.org of the Capitol, and managed by ~ Patrick Crowley [email protected] The Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery is a 501(c)3 organization. All donations are tax deductible. 2 HERITAGE GAZETTE / WINTER 2010 WWW.CONGRESSIONALCEMETERY.ORG gressional was a park-like setting with hundreds of canopy trees. From the Executive Director When the final Oehme van Sweden plan is presented and am very proud of the many cation and Outreach programs approved by the Board and fund- accomplishments of 2009; indeed will begin in 2010 to offer the ed, we can begin construction of the whole first decade of 2000 resources of the cemetery to columbarium walls or niches (see lead story for details). But those who cannot come here. A replacing those canopies. Ithe beginning of a new decade is new website will go online in And on the business side, an excellent opportunity to look April with state-of-the-art Manager Alan Davis will open ahead. Here’s what we have to search, interactive, and multime- sales and burials to the public look forward to in 2010: dia capability. The cell phone again. Sites owned for 100 years This year, we will complete tour will be upgraded and ex- or more, but never used, will be scanning 70 years of Cemetery panded for inclusion on the reclaimed and sold. The new Manager records and bind the website. “Green” section will make Con- original and a copy (for public A brand new focus and addi- gressional one of two natural view). We will finish the Ceme- tion to the website will be sup- cemeteries on the east coast. tery Proprietor’s List in 2010 plemental curriculum education- We have an ambitious agenda, with the help of our dogwalker al materials. DCPS third grade but with the support of our vol- volunteers and interns from West teachers are required to teach unteers and donors, we know Springfield High School. If we DC history. With photographs, 2010 will be a banner year for can raise the funds, we want to audio recordings and printed HCC. And I, for one, am look- have all of our historic Range materials, we will tell stories of ing forward to it! and Interment Index books pro- the people who built this city fessional digitally scanned. and the new federal government. ~ Cindy Hays A new direction for our Edu- One hundred years ago, Con- MEET THE NEW OFFICE MANAGER, T ERRI MAXFIELD Terri Maxfield grew up outside of Chicago, where she graduated from Northern Illinois University with a degree in Art History, with minor studies in Anthropology and Fine Arts. Her final class before graduating was a one month Study Abroad Program in Rome, which she parlayed into an eight year stay. Terri worked picking olives, making wine, even a stint as a sous chef, but soon turned her many house-sitting gigs into a successful property management business. Aiming at English and American homeowners that did not speak Italian, she assisted with everything from hiring a plumber, to negotiat- ing property contracts. In 2006, she began writing for for Fra Noi, a magazine published for the large Italian-American communityin Chicago, which continues to publish her column “Io Vagabonda”. She came to Washington DC in March of 2009, fell in love with the city, and decided to make it her new home. One day last fall, after a long walk in the cemetery, she met Congressional’s archivist, Dayle Dooley, who enchanted Terri with stories of the cemetery’s history, and Terri fell in love with the ceme- tery as well. Shortly thereafter, she learned of and applied for the newly created position of Office Man- ager Since being hired last December, Terri has been enthusiastically spearheading the annual renewal for the K9 Corps dogwalking club, as well as revamping the main office organizational systems. WWW.CONGRESSIONALCEMETERY.ORG HERITAGE GAZETTE / WINTER 2010 3 on the improvements, the old glass paned front door was sent Around the Gatehouse for quality “spa time” which cul- minated in new sleek lines and a SOUSA HISTORIC IRON GATE weight loss of several pounds — November 6th is always a special Plans and engineering specifica- many coats of old paint.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Name Birth/Death Age Range/Site
    Name Birth/Death Age Range/Site Fagan, Jane d. 9 Feb 1863 R88/71 Fagan. On the 9th inst., Mrs. Jane Fagan, formerly of Virginia and for the last 32 years an exemplary member of the Old School Baptist Church of this city. Her funeral will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10 o'clock, from the Island Baptist Church, Virginia avenue, near 4 1/2 st., to which her friends are respectfully invited. Interments in the Historic Congressional Cemetery Last Updated: 02/12/15 Name Birth/Death Age Range/Site Fague, Addie W. d. 4 Apr 1892 R20/97 Fague. On Monday, April 4, 1892, after a short illness, Addie W., beloved wife of Joseph Robert Fague and daughter of Sarah R. and the late Washington Bacon. Funeral from her late residence, 1002 6th street northwest, Wednesday, April 6 at 4 o'clock p.m. Friends and relatives invited to attend. Fague, Rosa V. d. 24 Apr 1905 R20/98 Fague. On Monday, April 24, 1905, at 7 o'clock a.m., Rosa V., beloved wife of Joseph Robert Fague. Funeral from her late residence, No. 300 11th street southwest, Wednesday, April 26 at 2:30 o'clock p.m. Relatives and friends respectfully invited to attend. The Evening Star, April 27, 1905, p. 16 Funeral of Mrs. Fague The funeral of Mrs. Rosa V. Fague, wife of Joseph Robert Fague of the District bar, took place from her late residence, 300 11th street southwest, yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. J.T. Wightman officiated, assisted by Revs.
    [Show full text]
  • Cenotaphs Would Suggest a Friendship, Clay Begich 11 9 O’Neill Historic Congressional Cemetery and Calhoun Disliked Each Other in Life
    with Henry Clay and Daniel Webster he set the terms of every important debate of the day. Calhoun was acknowledged by his contemporaries as a legitimate successor to George Washington, John Adams or Thomas Jefferson, but never gained the Revised 06.05.2020 presidency. R60/S146 Clinton 2 3 Tracy 13. HENRY CLAY (1777–1852) 1 Latrobe 4 Blount Known as the “Great Compromiser” for his ability to bring Thornton 5 others to agreement, he was the founder and leader of the Whig 6 Anderson Party and a leading advocate of programs for modernizing the economy, especially tariffs to protect industry, and a national 7 Lent bank; and internal improvements to promote canals, ports and railroads. As a war hawk in Congress demanding the War of Butler 14 ESTABLISHED 1807 1812, Clay made an immediate impact in his first congressional term, including becoming Speaker of the House. Although the 10 Boggs Association for the Preservation of closeness of their cenotaphs would suggest a friendship, Clay Begich 11 9 O’Neill Historic Congressional Cemetery and Calhoun disliked each other in life. Clay 12 Brademas 8 R60/S149 Calhoun 13 14. ANDREW PICKENS BUTLER (1796–1857) Walking Tour As the nation drifted toward war between the states, tensions CENOTAPHS rose even in the staid Senate Chamber of the U.S. Congress. When Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts disparaged Senator Andrew Butler of South Carolina (who was not istory comes to life in Congressional present) during a floor speech, Representative Preston Brooks Cemetery. The creak and clang of the of South Carolina, Butler’s cousin, took umbrage and returned wrought iron gate signals your arrival into to the Senate two days later and beat Sumner severely with a the early decades of our national heritage.
    [Show full text]
  • Honors Real World History (Course Codes: H72 & H74)
    Exciting New Citywide Elective : Honors Real World History (Course Codes: H72 & H74) Join students from multiple DCPS high schools for Real World History , a new, innovative history course in school year 2014–2015. Real World History will focus on the nature of historical thinking as well as the “doing” of history. • During the 2014 fall semester, students will focus on historical thinking and historiography. Cosby Hunt of Center for Inspired Teaching will teach the course through both in-person and online instruction, on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school (5–7pm) at a DCPS high school (TBD). A former teacher at the Columbia Heights Education Campus, Cosby was the 2008 History Teacher of the Year for the District of Columbia. • In the 2015 spring semester, the class will meet in person once a month as students practice their emerging academic and workplace skills through internships at a variety of DC museums, archives, and historic sites. By the end of the course, students will demonstrate mastery of reading, writing, speaking, and listening competencies as they relate to history, and they will make end-of-course presentations to members of the community about their learning. Participating students will be eligible to intern at one of the following sites in spring 2015: Anacostia Museum National Mall (National Park Service) Mary McLeod Bethune House National Museum of American History Congressional Cemetery National Portrait Gallery Frederick Douglass House Carter G. Woodson House Library of Congress Charles Sumner Museum and [DCPS] President Lincoln's Cottage Archives National Archives and Records Tudor Place Administration Woodrow Wilson House National Building Museum Enrollment in this course is by application only.
    [Show full text]
  • Storm Drain to Relieve Flooding
    Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery • Summer 2009 Storm Drain to Relieve Flooding Eradication of Congressional Congressional Cemetery’s storm Cemetery’s invasive English ivy water management system is a fairly is one of the high priorities straightforward chain of cobblestone for Emily Crandall’s Green swales, brick catch basins, and a Thumb volunteers. While some drainage ditch, all built in the 1890s. Green Thumbs offer TLC to the Being an open-air system, it catches gardens they tend, the Ivy League not only rainwater but grass clip- teams are on the forefront pings, autumn leaves, and anything of search and else that floats in its network. Main- destroy mis- tenance of the system is critical to its sions for operation; clogged waterways don’t ivy. Clippers drain. Sometime over the last hun- in hand, the dred years, the system stopped being Green Thumbs maintained. pinch, pull, and pry continued on 8 the offending invader plants from our oaks and maples, off marble gravestones, and out of the struggling shrubs. Not only does ivy abound in the gardens, stone carvers seem to favor ivy. Maybe the resilience of the plant makes it an attractive symbol of life, death, and renewal. It’s easy to grow, stays green all year, and comes back after a harsh winter or scorching summer. Ivy is low-maintenance, fast-growing, and seemingly eternal. Perfect for a graveyard! But don’t let a real gardener catch continued on 9 RIGHT : Coty Dooley plays a newsboy (far right) and Jamie Sledge plays Cranston Lurie, the host of HCC’s Lincoln Bicentennial Performance Tour, Lincoln’s Last Day: A Theatrical Walk Through History, performed in April and May at the Cemetery.
    [Show full text]
  • Washington Monuments and Memorials
    MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM Location: 1925 Vermont Avenue NW Open: Year round 24 hours (memorial); Museum Monday – Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fee: Free (donations appreciated) Metro: U Street/Shaw Phone: (202) 667-2667 Parking: Limited street parking Web site: www.afroamcivilwar.org ARLINGTON CEMETERY Location: Arlington, Virginia. Directly across Memorial Bridge Open: Year round 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (open until 7 pm April – September) Changing of the Guard: every hour on the hour October 1st to March 31st; April 1st through September 30th every hour and half hour Wreath Placing: (703) 607-8559. Reservations must be made in writing. A representative of the requesting organization must write to Arlington National Cemetery, Attn. Public Wreath Ceremonies, Arlington, VA 22211 on organizational letterhead. The sender should indicate on the outside of the envelope that is a “wreath-laying request.” Letter should indicate when the group is visiting, its schedule limitations, and complete contact information. No fax, email or telephone requests are accepted. Fee: Free Metro: Arlington Cemetery Phone: (703) 607- 8000 Parking: On-site, fee ranges from $1.25 - $2.00 an hour Web site: www.arlingtoncemetery.org CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY Location: 1801 E Street SE Open: Gates close at dusk; office/library Monday, Wednesday and Friday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (appointments available) Fee: Free Metro: Potomac Avenue Phone: (202) 543-0539 Parking: Street parking and on roads within the cemetery Web site: www.congressionalcemetery.org FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL Location: West Potomac Park Open: Year round 24 hours (closed December 25) Park ranger onsite from 9:30 a.m.
    [Show full text]
  • DC Circulatort National Mall Service G St G St GALLERY
    BROOKLAND / NORTHEAST Lowell St PARKRD Monro Pl Monroe St Lawrence St t n St ray e roe St rto Lu t St Mo Av St St e t S St St le St t Mon nt S St Lamont St o r m Lawrence St d y th La h th Irving St M t Oa h Kearny St h t n th S nt St t Lamo t k Pine S St 38 Pl n m S 13 ckso 7 Kilbou Keefer Ja 6 l t rne Pl 18 22 24 E 1 Mt W 1 Klingle Pl Co Kenyon St a 35 r t Pleas Kenyon St St d S St t h St e M nnec th Cathedral Ave Irving St Trinity ng St h S Irving St r Irvi t COLUMBIA th t i S l t ls 5 t E National Zoo 20 a a t S 2 26 S t nt t r HEIGHTS A t l College t 32nd S S C St h WOODLEY St P mlin h v S ia Rd Ha S e Gareld St t mb t l St St Colu rt Pl 010.5 Miles e h ba h h n St tic Ho 7 t Colmar t t 6 Hamlin St h t th Harvard St 0 r t Cle 1 4 1 5 5 h th 3 a PARK t t t 7 1 l tson Pl t 1 G 38 ut St S Girard St A h S ve 2 t St Michigan Ave Y 29 v e 27 S Manor Park Wa h la h o e St Harvard St Dr Rd t o t s th St th nd h h a S t 5t 6 rg Franklin St c t P Fulton St Wood WOODLEY Franklin St h 36 A 0 35 ley Rd ea l t R t McMillan ve B umbi Girard St i Pl l 2 3th ive a St 8 S Anacostia St 1 PARK Co t 1 r Edmunds St nier A e vie S Evarts St v Evarts St th Howard nd v Reservoir th La Fairmont St A w h Buses run every 10 minutes on the following schedule: e D t d t a S River Stream 14 22 r g 28 o S University Davis Pl Tu Davis St t St d t ver o t u Cal Calvert St 16 h Douglas St Douglas St S h Euclid St t R S a C t S e n Ave r t h t h k 7t S Valley Park r a r law t a S 2 m 1 Wi S n D Calvert St Rd Clifton St Channing St g o S nd 4 Channing St 6 n Biltmore St d Channing St Y l in a 41st 18 a t in t B n h t 6 h n k n o 42 Rd r g l o o sc ri y t t RHODE w S o th 2 an i S Rd S U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Burning of Washington
    the front door. As the Intelligencer was known to be the Government organ, the printing establishment was put to flame and completely destroyed by the advancing British troops. Revised 06.03.2020 R55/S168 11. DORTHEA (DOLLEY) MADISON (1768–1849) 1 Tingey The wife of President James Madison, she served as First 2 Booth Lady from 1809 until 1817. She first married John Todd, 3 Coombe Jr. (1764–1793), a lawyer who was instrumental in keeping Thornton 4 her father out of bankruptcy. The couple had two sons, John Payne (1792–1852) and William Temple (b./d. 1793). Her husband and their youngest son, William Temple, died in 1793 of a yellow fever. Dolley Todd married James ESTABLISHED 1807 Madison in 1794. Dolley Madison was noted as a gracious Association for the Preservation of hostess, whose sassy, ebullient personality seemed at odds 11 Madison with her Quaker upbringing. Her most lasting achievement Historic Congressional Cemetery was her rescue of valuable treasures, including state papers and a Gilbert Stuart painting of President George Washington from the White House before it was burned 10 Gales WalkingTHE BURNING Tour OF by the British army in 1814. First Lady Madison was 9 Seaton temporarily interred in the Public Vault until she could be 6 Campbell WASHINGTON moved to her final resting place. 5 Watterston istory comes to life in Congressional PUBLIC VAULT Cemetery. The creak and clang of the Crowley 8 7 Pleasanton wrought iron gate signals your arrival into the early decades of our national heritage. Mrs James Madison from an orignal by Gilbert Stuart c1804-1855, LC-USZ62-68175 The English war was a distant quiet thunder on Hthe finger lakes of New York when the residents of the U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • SUMMER 2014 There and Back Again
    Heritage Gazette ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY • SUMMER 2014 There and Back Again ive years after their temporary disinterment, the residents of the Causten Vault have been safely returned to their final resting place. Before work could begin on a $25,000 repair to the partially above- ground Causten Vault in July of 2009, Congressional Cemetery con- Ftacted National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) forensic anthropologist Douglas Owsley and a team of anthropologists and archaeologists. Owsley and his team removed remains and systematically analyzed the skeletons and associated artifacts of the sixteen individuals buried inside. These remains represent three lineages of families who lived in Washington, D.C. in the nineteenth-century. After an intensive genealogical investigation, researchers discovered a close family connec- tion between the individuals in the Causten Vault and America’s renowned Shriver family. The Smithsonian research team was able to successfully identify the remains of sixteen people, ranging in age from fourteen days to 86 years, and including the parents of Henrietta Causten Shriver, the wife of Shriver family patriarch Joseph Shriver, and several of her siblings. Causes of death for family members range from illnesses such as dysen- tery, nephritis, enteritis, and heart disease to death related to childbirth. Infant mortality was also a common occurrence during this time peri- od. In addition to skeletal remains, several silver-plated nameplates belonging to interred family members were recovered from the vault, including the nameplate of Josephine Shriver. Josephine was the daugh- ter of Henrietta Causten Shriver and Joseph Shriver, and died from unknown causes in 1847 when she was only four years old.
    [Show full text]
  • The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
    5* o i > -o z or K\ *) N> °? U2 >* The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln "Pictorial Primer," by John C. Brennan Excerpts from newspapers and other sources From the files of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection ^/ ?^9 flfrS"". <>3?ZGs 513 Main St, Laurel, Md. 20810 July 24, 1979 Mr. Mark E. Neely, Jr. Lincoln National Life Foundation Fort Wayne, Indiana 46301 Dear Mr. Neely: My friend and yours, Bert Sheldon, has sent me Louis Leonard Tucker* s EYEWITNESS TO LINCOLN'S LAST HOURS clipped from the April 1979 Yankee Magazine . When the newspaper accounts of "Gussie" Clark's April 16, I865, letter appeared in late 1977 > I wrote to the Massachusette His- torical Society, expressing grave doubts that Augustus Clark and Willi an T. Clark could both have lived at the Petersen House in April I865 without someone having chronicled Augustus's existence — especially since they both had such breathtakingly similar experiences. "Gussie" actually was a much more important fellow than Willie, inasmuch as (a) he climbed up into the Presidential box and (b) helped carry Lincoln's limp form across the street. And Gussie carefully refrained from saying which room on which story of the House he was renting and also shied away from relating anything other than the well-known stereotyped details. Can you think of any reason that Gussie would have sent a piece of blood-stained towel, identical to the one he mailed to his "Dear Uncle", to Governor John A. Andrews of Massachusetts — on May 5, I865? I canl He wanted to get into the act.
    [Show full text]
  • Building the Federal City
    12. BENJAMIN MOORE (–1821) He was a bookseller who founded the bi-weekly Washington Gazette to earn a living and “amuse and inform” his readers. The cost: $4 per year. By 1797, he ceased publication, informing his readers he would not continue unless there would be some profit Tingey 1 McCormick 4 3 2 to him. Rapine Stelle 10 Orr R25/S39 Coombe 7 6 13. WILLIAM BENNING (1771–1831) Blagden 8 9 Smallwood 11 Lee Greenleaf A river pirate who bought 330 acres of land, he built the first 5 Prout 12 Moore bridge spanning the north half of the Anacostia River, collecting tolls to pay for it. Maps dated 1861 show that the Benning’s Bridge and Benning’s Road provided an important eastern route out of the city. 13 Benning R34/S68 ESTABLISHED 1807 14. GEORGE WATTERSTON (1782–1854) Association for the Preservation of He was the first full-time Librarian of Congress from 1815–1829. Prior to then, Library of Congress LC-USZ62-6007 Historic Congressional Cemetery the Clerk of the House was responsible for maintaining the library. When the library Revised 06.12.2020 was burned in 1814 during the war, the job BUILDING THE of librarian became a separate position. Walking Tour Watterston replenished the Library by FEDERAL CITY purchasing the collection of former President Thomas Jefferson and organized istory comes to life in Congressional it on Jefferson’s classification scheme. After Cemetery. The creak and clang of the he opposed Andrew Jackson for President, wrought iron gate signals your arrival into the latter fired him in 1829.
    [Show full text]
  • Name Birth/Death Age Range/Site
    Name Birth/Death Age Range/Site Eagen, Sarah E. d. 27 Feb 1929 92 yrs. R69/115 Eagen, Sarah E. On Wednesday February 27, 1929 at 8:30 p.m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna E. Steele, Capitol Heights, Md., Sarah E. Eagen, aged 92, widow of Peter Eagen. She is survived by three daughters and two sons. Funeral will be held Saturday, March 2 at 1 p.m., from Congressional Church, Capitol Heights, Md. Interment Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Interments in the Historic Congressional Cemetery Last Updated: 02/12/15 Name Birth/Death Age Range/Site Eakle, Edward H. b. 1860 - d. 15 Aug 1912 52 yrs. R58/187 Eakle. On Thursday, August 15, 1912 at Washington Grove, Md., Edward H., son of Mrs. Mary F. and the late Elias H. Eakle. Services will be held at his late residence, 1108 East Capitol street, Saturday, at 4 p.m. Interment at Congressional cemetery. The Evening Star, August 16, 1912, p. 18 Funeral of E.H. Eakle Services at Family Residence at 2:30 Tomorrow Afternoon The funeral of Edward H. Eakle, fifty-two years old, for many years a coal merchant of this city, who died yesterday at his country home, at Washington Grove, Md. will be held from his late residence, 1108 East Capitol street at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Burial will be in Congressional cemetery. Mr. Eakle was born in Maryland in 1860 and came to this city about twenty-five years ago. He had been in poor health, and about five weeks ago he went to his country home, hoping the change would be beneficial.
    [Show full text]
  • Candidate Sites CANDIDATE SITES
    33 Candidate Sites CANDIDATE SITES Candidate sites were evaluated by applying the specific urban design, economic, With Prime Sites listed first, the 100 candidate sites are: transportation, and environmental criteria defined in Section 3 (for Site Evaluation Criteria, see the technical master plan material, posted on NCPC’s website at www. Candidate Memorial and Museum Sites ncpc.gov). The following Prime Site evaluations were conducted based both on site reconnaissance and using data obtained from NCPC and other sources. No. General Location/Description In addition to these 20 prime sites, 80 additional sites are considered within this mas- Note: Sites #1 through 20 represent the Prime Sites ter plan. Those additional sites are included at the end of the Prime Site evaluations 1 Memorial Avenue at George Washington Memorial Parkway and provide overview assessments of each site's potential to accommodate future (west of Memorial Bridge ) memorials and museums. 2 E Street expressway interchange on the east side of the Kennedy Center 3 Intersection of Maryland and Independence Avenues, SW The diagram below illustrates the approximate location of the 20 Prime Sites within (between 4th and 6th Streets) the master plan framework's Waterfront Crescent, Monumental Corridors, and 4 Kingman Island (Anacostia River) Commemorative Focus Areas. 5 Freedom Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW between 13th -14th Streets 6 Potomac River waterfront on Rock Creek Parkway (south of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge) 7 East Capitol Street east of 19th Street (north
    [Show full text]