Fort Washington provides peaceful setting just outside D.C. (July/August 2003) - The year was 1814, and 49 troops with a half-dozen cannon manned a fort along the Potomac River, just 9 miles downstream of the young nation’s capital.

Gateways Adds Two Sites (April 2002) - The National Park Service’s Bay Gateways Network recently announced the addition of two new sites, bringing the number of parks, refuges, historic ports, museums and trails participating in the network to 108.