We propose a day of mourning! #OTD in 1914, a commonwealth-wide referendum banning alcohol sales passed in #Virginia. The law decimated #Alexandria's thriving brewery industry, once the largest in the Southeast U.S: https://t.co/HCasdhvqTb #Prohibition @AlexandriaPatch We pr…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 22, 2022
Endeavour Gets a Piggyback Ride via NASA https://t.co/zTXlnHcEEu https://t.co/QljK7Hjjwc
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 22, 2022
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