What Does Freedom Mean to You
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The National Park Service, in partnership with the African American Experience Fund of the National Park Foundation, presents Expressions of Freedom. There is but one way to commemorate the Emancipation Proclamation. That is to make its declarations of freedom real . . . |
Did You Know?
In 1844, President John Tyler was almost killed on the river near Fort Washington, when an experimental cannon exploded aboard the USS Princeton. Six were killed(including Secretary of State Abel Upshaw & Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer) , 20 were injured. The accident prompted Thomas Jackson Rodman to develop a new way of casting artillery and the creation of the 15inch Rodman Gun, like the ones that can be seen at Fort Foote.