Art All Night Mount Pleasant is tomorrow Friday Sept 23 from 5 to 10. I will be talking about Mt Pleasant history. See you there! @OldTimeDC @GhostsofDC https://t.co/llF279fkSw Art All Night Mount Pleasant is tomorrow Friday Sept 23 from 5 to 10. I will be talking about Mt Ple…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 22, 2022
Did you know there was once a train station on the National Mall? The Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Station stood at the current location of the @ngadc until it was demolished in 1908. https://t.co/1H0O8dq7Xo cc @WashProbs https://t.co/ljk9VAvLll Did you know there was once …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 22, 2022
Today in History - September 22 https://t.co/U1mm06P43Y On September 22, 1862, partly in response to the heavy losses inflicted at the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all enslaved people in the…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 22, 2022
Great new resource! https://t.co/71xvwC6D7q Great new resource! https://t.co/71xvwC6D7q — Boundary Stones (@BoundaryStones) Sep 21, 2022
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 21, 2022
The Metropolitan Police Department is widely credited with carrying out the first large-scale sting operation in 1976, playing cartoonish mafiosos to fence stolen goods in Northeast D.C. But did MPD's new tactic ensnare criminals or entice crime? https://t.co/oJWnHw9jZo The …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 21, 2022
The Ebbitt House was located on the southeast corner of 14th and F Streets, N.W., in downtown Washington, D.C. It was a favorite hotel for military and other government officials. The National Press Club Building is now on the site. https://t.co/Rd2SdQMeRK The Ebbitt House was…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 21, 2022
Nelson Mandela visited D.C. many times and was celebrated with crowds and fanfare. But his first visit in 1990 was an awkward one: he publicly rebuked President George H.W. Bush at the White House for his praise of South Africa's apartheid government: https://t.co/DzjSdm0q9w …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 21, 2022