Historical Marker

Battery Kemble Park

Historical marker location:
2832 Chain Bridge Road Northwest, Kent, District of Columbia
( Marker is on Chain Bridge Road Northwest north of MacArthur Boulevard Northwest, on the right when traveling north.)

Defense of Washington.

The District was originally much larger: The District of Columbia originally included land from both Maryland and Virginia, but in 1846, the portion of the District that had been taken from Virginia was returned to the state.
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