Historical Marker

Optical Tower - Second Officers House

Historical marker location:
800 Tingey Crescent Southeast, Navy Yard, District of Columbia
( Marker is on Dahlgren Avenue Southeast south of Tingey Crescent Southeast, on the left when traveling south.)

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Washington D.C. is a city of spooks, almost all of whom are powerful and wealthy.
Carl Bernstein in The Real-Life Washington, October 1977
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