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Commodore Isaac Hull left the Navy Yard in September 1835, never to return. However, the regulation regarding the workers' lunch restrictions remained in place, and the work hours continued the same until 1840. [68] [69] For Navy Yard workers, the strike of 1835 revealed the weakness and tenuous nature of their bargaining situation. As day ...
[13] [14] In 1832 the Washington Navy Yard Hospital, hired Eleanor Cassidy O'Donnell to work as a nurse. Eleanor Cassidy O'Donnell, pioneer nurse, at Washington Navy Yard Hospital payroll,8 March 1832. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Union Navy hired about two dozen women as seamstresses in the Ordnance Department, Laboratory ...
View of Navy Yard in 1833. Historically, the Anacostia River was once a deep water channel with natural resources and home to the Nacotchtank Indians. In 1791 Pierre Charles L’Enfant designed the plan for Washington, D.C., and, recognizing the assets of the Anacostia River, located the city's new commercial center and wharfs there.
DC Councilman Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) on Sunday warned his constituents in the Navy Yard area to brace for “major congestion” starting Monday, when thousands of naval employees begin ...
Blue Jacket (1745–1810), Shawnee war chief known for his defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country Charles Blue Jacket (1817–1897), 19th-century Shawnee chief in Kansas, and Methodist Minister Jim Bluejacket (1887–1947), one of the first Native Americans to play in major league baseball
Blue Jacket, or Weyapiersenwah (c. 1743 – 1810), was a war chief of the Shawnee people, known for his militant defense of Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country.Perhaps the preeminent American Indian leader in the Northwest Indian War, in which a pantribal confederacy fought several battles with the nascent United States, he was an important predecessor of the famous Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
The National Museum of the United States Navy, or U.S. Navy Museum for short, is the flagship museum of the United States Navy and is located in the former Breech Mechanism Shop of the old Naval Gun Factory on the grounds of the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., United States.