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Wind Tunnel
The Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel is a state-of-the-art low speed wind tunnel that has been actively involved in aerodynamic research and development since 1949.
It is large enough to perform extensive development tests for a wide range of vehicles and other systems and is well suited for conducting major research efforts in low speed aerodynamics and hydrodynamics.
Fort Lincoln Cemetery
Fort Lincoln was one of seven temporary earthwork forts part of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, DC during the Civil War built in the Northeast quadrant of the city at the beginning of the Civil War by the Union Army to protect the city from the Confederate Army.
In 1861, after the bombardment of Fort Sumter (the beginning of the Civil War), the property was seized by the United States Government for the location of Battery Jameson (named for Brig. Gen. Charles D. Jameson).
The remains of Battery Jameson are still visible near the old spring house. President Abraham Lincoln is said to have met here to discuss army strategy. The battery served to reinforce Fort Lincoln which was located a short distance away in the District of Columbia.
Fort Lincoln Cemetery was named after Fort Lincoln which strategically protected the nation’s capitol during the Civil War. Fort Lincoln became the headquarters for the Second Pennsylvania Veteran Heavy Artillery. Men from this unit staffed Battery Jameson.
It was too dark to go into the cemetery to find the historical marker, so I just have a picture of the front entrance.
@AlanA 206313 wrote:
They are owned by the same (bankrupt) parent company as Hair Cuttery. At first, I didn’t think I’d come up with anything, but in the middle of the night, I remembered this salon, which used to be a Hair Cuttery (less than 1/2 mile away). I’m hoping for a lax judge and get credit for something. My brain is already fried, I don’t need to think any more than I have to!
Bubbles Salon counts in my book!
This rectangular block of white marble is inscribed “In Memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882-1945.” He wanted a memorial the size of his desk and in front of the Archives.
FDR pledged a new deal for the American People. His New Deal programs helped improve the lives of people suffering from the events of the depression. In the long run, New Deal programs set a precedent for the federal government to play a key role in the economic and social affairs of the nation.
Greenbelt Community Center was formerly the town’s elementary school, library, and community building. The library was move to a new building in 1970 and a new school was built in 1990.
The architecture was streamlined in the Art Deco style popular at that time with curving lines, glass brick inserts in the facades of apartment buildings, and buttresses along the front wall of the elementary school. These buttresses create vertical lines framing a set of bas reliefs by WPA sculptor Lenore Thomas.
These features make the original buildings of the city some of the finest examples of Art Deco to be found in the Washington area. Indeed, the Greenbelt Community Center is considered one of the ten best Art Deco style structures within the United States.
Riverdale Fire Department
By the early 1930’s, it was evident that we were outgrowing our original fire house with swing out doors. In the mid 1930’s plans were drawn up and approved to build a new firehouse in Riverdale. This new structure was built in 1937 using federal public works funds and was designed to house the fire apparatus of the time, plus a town meeting hall was incorporated into the plan for the second floor over the firehouse. During subsquent years it has been necessary to build several additions onto the existing firehouse.
M-NCPPC Solar Project
This solar farm along the ICC trail holds large
panels to generate energy and reduce Montgomery County’s carbon footprint.
We can thank the New Deal for improvements to Sligo Creek Trail in 1935.
Sligo Creek Parkway is a landscaped, two-lane roadway in Montgomery County MD that runs parallel to Sligo Creek and the Sligo Creek Trail. It begins at Maryland Route 650 in Takoma Park, travels through Silver Spring, and ends further north at MD 193.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) did extensive work on the parkway in 1935-36, including: “building drains along existing concrete roads, ditch digging, laying storm drains, creek cribbing, footbridges, masonry headwalls; clearing, grubbing and seeding park land; building a running track, foot paths, playground equipment, drinking fountains, and shelters.” (Maryland Historical Trust)
The Hyattsville Armory is a historic National Guard armory built in 1918 and located in Hyattsville, Maryland. “The building is patterned after a medieval English castle and built of native stone, with rectangular turrets flanking the arched limestone entranceway.”
It now serves as a place of worship.
