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The Eagles Have Landed Here!
There now are more bald eagles along the Chesapeake within a few dozen miles of Washington than there were in the entire continental United States in the mid-1960s. (National Audubon Society)

Years Before the Civil War, Washington Slaves Made a Bid for Freedom On the evening of April 15, 1848, 77 slaves slipped away from their quarters in and near Washington. They boarded the 54-ton, bay-craft schooner Pearl in the Potomac River and set sail in search of freedom. (The Granger Collection)