President Street Station (1909)

ID: 801 ~ Source: Maryland Historical Society, Worthington Collection, PP23.150 ~ Creator: Attributed to Thomas Chew Worthington III ~ Date: 1909
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President Street Station (1909)

Exterior view of President Street Station.

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By Eli Pousson
On April 19, 1861, just one week after the attack on Fort Sumter by Confederate forces marked the beginning of the Civil War, a train carrying Union volunteers with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment pulled into the Philadelphia, Wilmington and…