Casualties Arriving at Mount Pleasant General Hospital, May 1864

Historical marker location:

1673 Park Road Northwest, Mount Pleasant, District of Columbia

( Marker is at the intersection of Park Road Northwest and 17th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling west on Park Road Northwest.)

The city was built on a swamp: The area that is now Washington, D.C. was originally a swampy, marshy region along the Potomac River. The construction of the city involved extensive drainage and landfill projects to make the land suitable for building.