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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Gabriel Duvall, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, built Marietta in 1812, and died here in 1844.

This cenotaph in the back yard of the Pallotine Seminary at Green Hill in Chillum, Maryland, marks the spot where Pierre L'Enfant was buried in 1825.

John A. Joyce stole a poem and took it to his grave.

This thin marble headstone in Congressional Cemetery, in Southeast DC, marks the final resting place of Beau Hickman.

Maryland's Most Distinquished Lady

Anna Ella Carroll has been called a feminist heroine, military strategist and unacknowledged member of Lincoln's cabinet and a self-promoting fraud.

- Evelyn Y. Davis -

Queen of the Corporate Jungle

1929 --- Forever

A Living Landmark

"Author, Poet, Soldier, Scholar" or "Traitor, Klan Leader, Satanist, Coward"?

Nothing about Albert Pike is uncontroversial.