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Glen Echo Park offers an array of social dance events and classes in waltz, swing, contra, [36] [37] and salsa. Dances take place in the historic Spanish Ballroom, the Bumper Car Pavilion, and the climate-controlled Ballroom Annex (The Back Room). About 60,000 people attend Glen Echo Park's dances each year.
The Glen Echo Park Aquarium is a small public aquarium located on the premises of Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, Maryland.Labeled as a "Chesapeake Bay Discovery Center," their stated mission is to "promote awareness of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed through education, in order to encourage stewardship and conservation."
Adventure Theatre also began offering its first theater-education classes and created a puppet division, now known as The Puppet Co., another resident of Glen Echo Park. In 1986, New Plays Books published Six Adventure Theatre Plays, which were distributed to bookstores and children’s theaters around the country. The County Council of ...
The town is known for its Chautauqua cultural events [12] and for Glen Echo Park, a former amusement park that is now a U.S. national park. Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, lived in Glen Echo, a streetcar ride from her office, [13] from 1897 until her death in 1912. [8]
The site is located 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Washington D.C. in Glen Echo, Maryland. The United States National Historic Site protects 9 acres (0.04 km 2) of land at her Glen Echo home including the 38-room former residence of Barton. The site is managed by the George Washington Memorial Parkway, a unit of the National Park Service. The ...
The Glen Echo Railroad (after 1896, the Washington and Glen Echo Railroad) was a streetcar line that operated independently in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, from 1891 to 1902. It ultimately connected the communities of Cabin John and Glen Echo to a terminal near present-day Friendship Heights , where passengers could transfer to the ...
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Close-up view of sign on the former bumper car pavilion at Glen Echo Park Farmhouse and slave quarters at Hampton National Historic Site. Photo by James G. Howes. View of the Potomac River at Piscataway Park Haberdaventure, the home of Thomas Stone, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, centerpiece of the Thomas Stone National Historic Site.