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Washington Navy Yard

Washington Navy Yard
Photo: PH1 (AC) DAVID MACLEAN, Public domain

U.S. Navy's first yard and first home port center for early 19th-century naval operations during a critical period of expanding nationalism. It has about 35 buildings built between 1799 and 1920, and the National Museum of the U.S. Navy.

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