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Rock Creek Heritage Day is Saturday, and the event will celebrate the complete rehabilitation done on Peirce ... 6 to 8 p.m., park rangers will conduct candlelight tours of the mill (free tickets ...
The renovation of Peirce Mill is a watershed in the push to restore Rock Creek and the national park that covers 80 acres, in the District and Maryland. Fish ladders now allow alewives and herring ...
The do-si-do was alive and well outside Peirce Mill, a 19th-century gristmill in Rock Creek Park, this past Saturday. Several hundred dancers, both experts and newbies, returned for the mill’s first ...
2016-10-02T18:00:12-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/01e/20161002180524003_hd.jpgJohn DeFerrari and Jeanne Minor gave a tour of Peirce Mill in Rock Creek Park in ...
Peirce Mill, where corn and wheat were ground into flour using the park's waters; or the log cabin of writer and poet Joaquin Miller, erected in the 1880s on 16th Street and moved to Rock Creek in ...
The March 31 front-page article "Rock Creek Fish Head Home Again," about the opening of the fish passage at Peirce Mill in Rock Creek Park, described a significant step in restoring the fish life ...
A recently rehabilitated section of Beach Drive was gouged out by raging Rock Creek floodwater ... and Peirce Mill until an eroded section of roadbed is inspected. The National Park Service ...
In 1892, the federal government acquired Peirce Mill in Rock Creek Park, one of the mills used by local farmers during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. In 1950, the Old Stone House located in ...
A large urban park extending from the Washington, D.C.-Maryland border to the Potomac River, Rock Creek Park is a destination for an expansive array of outdoor activities. It has more than 32 ...
Deep in Rock Creek Park, at Beach Drive and Tilden Street Northwest, sits the largely forgotten Peirce Mill, a relic of Old World ingenuity, a place where the production of flour and bran turned on th ...
Rock Creek Park was one of the nation’s first national parks, designated as such in 1890—before Grand Canyon, Mount Rainier, or the Great Smoky Mountains. But unlike those parks, Rock Creek primarily ...