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What is this DC place?
Posted by: ThOr101 ()
Date: June 12, 2007 03:15PM

I drove by this place over the weekend. I thought it might be an old armory. Any ideas?

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=38.925413,-77.010027&spn=0.000908,0.002489&t=h&z=19&om=1

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Re: What is this DC place?
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: June 12, 2007 05:37PM

I've driven by that a bunch of times, I think it's part of the DC water filtration system.

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Re: What is this DC place?
Posted by: RESton Peace ()
Date: June 13, 2007 12:23AM

That's the old cider mill.

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Re: What is this DC place?
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: June 13, 2007 05:54AM

That's the old cider mill.

LOL.

It's actually the Smithsonian's National Museum of Street Drugs.

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Re: What is this DC place?
Posted by: RESton Peace ()
Date: June 13, 2007 06:37AM

Oh yeah, I always forget that's where the drug museum is. Then again, I stock up heavily in the gift shop before I leave.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/13/2007 06:37AM by RESton Peace.

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Re: What is this DC place?
Posted by: SomeGuy ()
Date: June 13, 2007 03:50PM

from WikiMapia:

McMillan Slow Sand Filter Plant

One of the first municipal filtration plants in the US, this was a slow sand plant that supplied water to DC from its opening in 1905 to its replacement with a modern plant (the large building to the left) in 1985. The site is currently abandoned, despite being declared a DC Historic Landmark in 1991; plans to redevelop the site have not emerged so far.

This plant is interesting because the filter beds are underground, beneath the huge grassy fields in the middle. The silos on the edges were used for storing and washing the sand when the beds were cleaned.
tags: water plant historic slow sand
type: Interesting place

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Re: What is this DC place?
Posted by: ThOr101 ()
Date: June 27, 2007 01:52PM

Wow.

Thank you for the link to wikimapia, that is cool, and thanks for the information.

If there is a bunch of sand there now, why don't we just make it a beach?

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