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- Solicitation number
- 140P3023Q0056
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This document includes an attachment with maps and details for proposed wayside exhibits at the National Mall and Memorial Parks' Lockkeeper's House, along with the corresponding federal contract opportunity.
The attachment provides specifications for 15 wayside exhibits to be planned, designed, fabricated, and installed at the Lockkeeper's House. The exhibits will cover the history of Constitution Gardens, the future vision for the gardens, past buildings that occupied the site, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal extension, slavery in Washington D.C., the moving and history of the Lockkeeper's House, remnants of the 17th street wharf and levee, Tiber Creek, and the L'Enfant and McMillan plans. The federal contract opportunity is solicitation number 140P3023Q0056 for wayside exhibit services related to the Lockkeeper's House project from the Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office.
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National Mall and Memorial Parks L O C K K E E P E R ’ S H O U S E W A Y S I D E E X H I B I T S
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The History of Constitution Gardens
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Dedicated in 1976, as part of the American Bicentennial tribute, a memorial island in the middle of an artificial lake has stones bearing the names and signatures of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence. The 50 acres of park was historically a tidal mudflat on the banks of the Potomac River and later the site of United States military buildings until their demolition following World War II. One set of empty buildings remained until 1974 in the area now called Constitution Gardens.
Today the park is a hidden gem and one of the most peaceful places around the National Mall having the feel of a community park within the location of national monuments and memorials.
https://nationalmall.org/content/constitution-gardens
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The Future of Constitution Gardens
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Today, the lake conditions have led to unsightly algal blooms, a dying and unsustainable fish habitat, and costly, labor-intensive maintenance. Trees are in critical health, and many have died due to poor soil....The new park will retain its original purpose as a pastoral setting, but offer a sustainable space for education and entertainment throughout the year, day and night....Phase II includes the re-design of the lake and water resource management as well as upgrading the surrounding landscapes, provide for much needed soil remediation and new gardens. Key elements of the 36 acres restoration include:
New and upgraded amenities including: ice skating in the winter, model boating in the summer, a small amphitheater for concerts, concessions, retail and upgraded bathrooms.
Reconstructing the lake to support a functioning ecology, including wildlife habitats while reducing the impacts of storm water from the surrounding landscape and buildings.
Planting new gardens with native species and flowering plant life.
https://nationalmall.org/content/constitution-gardens
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Navy and Munitions Buildings
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The Main Navy and Munitions temporary war buildings were built quickly in 1918 during World War I under the direction of Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to provide emergency offices for wartime workers. Nearly 14,000 U.S. Navy personnel worked in these buildings, including the Secretary of the Navy and the Bureau of Navigation. FDR would later say he wanted the structures to be “of such superlative ugliness” that they would be torn down quickly. Despite their appearance and presence on parkland of the Mall, the offices proved useful for more than 50 years. President Nixon ordered them demolished in 1970. Today, the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial and Constitution Gardens occupy the same space that belonged to the Main Navy and Munitions buildings.
http://mallhistory.org/items/show/57
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Extension
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This lockkeeper’s house is the only remnant of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Extension, which was built between 1832 and 1833 to connect the C&O Canal (begun in 1828, and originating at Rock Creek) to the Washington City Canal (built from 1802 to 1815, and leading from the Potomac at 17th Street to the Anacostia; now Constitution Avenue). The extension was intended to ensure that the city would benefit from commerce along the major canals.
https://historicsites.dcpreservation.org/items/show/340
Through the influence of the powerful group of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal stockholders living in Washington City, the Canal Company in July 1831, was “instructed to commence that part of the said Canal extending from the Basin at Rock Creek to the mouth of the Tiber [Creek] and to prosecute the same simultaneously, with the work on said basin.”
http://npshistory.com/publications/choh/hsr-bridges.pdf
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Slavery in Washington, DC
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Details of “Map of part of the city of Washington shewing the situation of the mansion house, grave yard & buildings belonging to Mr. Notley Young...” LOC http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3851g.ct003600
(below) Detail from “Slave Market of America” American Anti- Slavery Society - https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/pnp/ ppmsca/19700/19705u.tif
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Lockkeeper’s House
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Over the past 184 years, the Lockkeeper’s House has been a humble witness to our nation’s history. In the early 1800s, George Washington advocated for canals in the capital city and believed they were essential for the economy and fundamental to our nationhood. Finished in 1837, the house sat at the intersection of what used to be the C&O Canal and the Washington Canal, where the Lockkeeper collected tolls and kept trade records for merchan-dise that entered the city. Over the years, the Lockkeeper’s House evolved to meet the needs of the times – serving as a tool shed for park staff, a watchman’s lodge, and even a temporary holding cell for Park Police.
https://www.nps.gov/nama/learn/news/lockkeeperhousemove.htm
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Until recently, the historic 185-year-old stone building known as the lockkeeper’s house sat right at the curb of Constitution Avenue and 17th Street — next to six lanes of traffic whizzing by the National Mall. Now, after a carefully orchestrated move coordinated by the National Park Service and the Trust for the National Mall, it sits 30 feet further inland, in a much calmer spot.
https://wamu.org/story/17/10/13/move-historic-lockkeepers-house-first-step-renovation-constitution-gardens/
Moving the Lockkeeper’s House
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Mounting Block
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Figure 1.1.26. Detail of planting plan (1916). Note ... the two rectangles along the west side. These are most likely mounting blocks of which one remains today. The mounting blocks allowed (horse) riders to dismount in order to use the comfort station.
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17th Street Wharf
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The wharf at 17th Street was a prominent feature of the 19th -century landscape. Construction of the wharf followed an 1806 act of the City Council...
The 17th Street Wharf continued to expand in the 19th century.
By mid-century, the wharf extended about 750 feet into the mouth of Tiber Creek, with a width of about 150 feet. The wharf was initially used to import building materials, produce and household necessities. By mid-century coal and wood assumed greater importance. ... In addition to sand and gravel dealers, the wharf also included a small lunch room operated by an African- American man named Henry Hill (Wright 1881). The 17th Street Wharf disappeared with the construction of 17th Street (then Park Entrance Road) below B Street (now Constitution Avenue), in 1902.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-archeology-of-dc-17th-street-wharf.htm
17th Street Wharf
Potomac River
Tiber Creek/ Washington
City Canal
Washington Monument
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17th Street Levee Closure
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Consisting of aluminum panels between steel posts, the 17th Street levee closure is part of the Potomac Park Levee System in downtown Washington, D.C. In the event of high water, the removable structure can be erected across 17th Street NW south of Constitution Avenue NW to reduce flood risk to human safety and critical infrastructure downtown and in Southwest parts of the district from flooding of the Potomac River. The 17th Street levee is operated and maintained by the National Park Service.
NPS.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/annual-test-installation-of-levee-to-close-part-of- 17th-street-on-september-29-2021.htm
17th Levee Closure fully assembled
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Tiber Creek had been known as Goose Creek before 1790 when the city of Washington, DC was laid out and designated the na-tion's capital. The creek extended from the base of Capitol Hill to its mouth near the present day Washington Monument. In 1815, it was incorporated into the Washington City Canal. Essentially an open sewer, the creek was enclosed in a tunnel and diverted underground in 1871.
http://mallhistory.org/items/show/40 052
Tiber Creek / Washington City Canal
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Peter Waddell, Tiber Creek: The Bathers, oil on canvas, 2009
Modern day outfall from Tiber Creek sewer
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McMillan Plan
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The McMillan Plan is the name given to the several recommendations made in a report produced in 1902 by the Senate Park Commission for improving the design and appearance of Washington, D.C., particularly its historic core. The commission, formed in 1901, was chaired by Senator James McMillan of Michigan and included architects Daniel Burnham and Charles McKim, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and, acting as its secretary, Charles Moore. ... It sought, in effect, to restore and amplify Pierre L’Enfant’s original plan for the city with the formal grandeur of an extended, cruciform National Mall, framed symmetrically by elms and punctuated by monumental neoclassical architecture in the Beaux-Arts manner. The report also proposed a system of parks and parkways that would incorporate and memorialize the Civil War-era fortifications encircling the city...
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Anacostan People
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The village of Nacotchtank...was the largest of the three American Indian villages located in the Washington area and is believed to have been a major trading center. The people of Nacotchtank, or Anacostans, were an Algonquian-speaking people that lived along the southeast side of the Anacostia River in the area between today’s Bolling Air Force Base and Anacostia Park, in the floodplain below the eastern-most section of today’s Fort Circle Parks. A second town, Nameroughquena, most likely stood on the Potomac’s west bank, opposite of what today is Theodore Roosevelt Island. Another village existed on a narrow bluff between today’s Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and MacArthur Boulevard in the northwest section of the city.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/native-peoples-of-washington-dc.htm
The American Indian peoples most closely associated with Analostan Island are the Nacotchtank, primarily as the island’s name, Analostan, is derived from Anglicization of their own name.
The Nacochtank people who lived on the river spoke a language from the Algonquin family https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/indians-at-the-post-office-murals-indian-lifeways-and-the-non-native-artist/early-indian
Anastolan (Theodore Roosevelt) Island
Potomac River
Arlington, Virginia
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In 1791, President George Washington hired Pierre Charles L’Enfant to create a plan for the layout of the federal city. L’Enfant focused on the area between Tiber Creek, today Constitution Avenue and the Eastern Branch, also called the Anacostia River. L’Enfant surveyed the area in the spring of 1791 and created a plan for the city by the end of the year. This plan established the placement of the Capitol and President’s House, now called the White House, and recommended the creation of the public promenade from the Capitol to the Potomac, the area we now call the National Mall.
http://mallhistory.org/items/show/168
L’Enfant Plan
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The L’Enfant Plan
A portion of the L’Enfant Plan in Freedom Plaza
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The Lockkeeper and his Family
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Text should include what we know about the three families that lived in the Lockkeeper’s House as well as general information about the lives of keepers and their families.
“Lockkeepers were available anytime of the day or night to operate this lock. Tending lock was often a family venture and the canal company preferred family men. Lockkeepers were paid as much as $600 a year, and were provided a lockhouse with a garden plot.”
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?z=100999
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