Historical Marker

The Washington City Canal

Historical marker location:
The National Mall, District of Columbia
( Marker is on Constitution Avenue Northwest (U.S. 50) west of 17th Street Northwest, on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 1950

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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