The Palo Alto Hotel

 The Palo Alto Hotel at Bladensburg in 1846

From an old print in the possession of the Ohio Historical Society.

The “Cocktail”  was not invented here on April 17, 1846, nor was the word “Cocktail” first applied here.

The Garfield Memorial Tablet

Garfield Memorial  Tablet in the Baltimore & Potomac R. R. Depot

(from Picturesque Washington ... by Joseph West Moore, 1884, page 61.)

James Abram Garfield

President

of the

United States 

July 2, 1881

Ashes to Answers

    National Fire Dog Monument

Victory — The First Division A.E.F. Monument

The Old Brick Capitol

A Curious Tomb and a Long Epitaph

 Captain John Williams

Bleak House

The country home of Alexander R. Shepherd

All that remains of Bleak House is a 3-car garage in an alleyway.