National Capital Region

New cancellation for Francis Scott Key Memorial at Washington Monument Bookstore

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:05:53 -0500

You’ll find a new cancellation for the Francis Scott Key Memorial (which is a bridge, by the way) at the Washington Monument Bookstore. This building is also known as Monument Lodge, and it’s the place to which all of the stamps were relocated from the Survey Lodge, on the other side of the monument. You’ll find many cancellations here for just about all the monuments and memorials included under the umbrella title, “National Mall & Memorial Parks.”

New cancellations at GWMP

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:35:24 -0500

George Washington Memorial Parkway’s headquarters in Turkey Run Park has three new cancellations. So far, these three new ones are only available at the park’s headquarters—you won’t find them at Great Falls Park or Arlington House, where the Parkway has placed duplicates of cancellations before. (If you are traveling and you do find these three at an alternate location, please let me know!)

The new cancellations are for the following:
• Georgetown Waterfront Park
• Montrose & Dumbarton Oaks Parks
• Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway

Many more stamps on the Potomac Heritage Trail

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:41:23 -0500

This will make you wonder if there’s a competition between the Potomac Heritage Trail and the Hudson River Valley Heritage Area to have the most Passport cancellations: In December 2009, Potomac Heritage placed an order for 16 new stamps! This brings the trail’s total to 38, reaching across three regions of the Passport program (Mid-Atlantic, National Capital and Southeast).

I’ll work on putting together a list with all of the street addresses. In the meantime, you can download a one-sheet posted by the trail’s staff, with all of the location listed. It’s here.

Greenbelt Park Stamps are Identical in Both Locations

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:35:45 -0400

If you’re not collecting duplicate stamps, you can visit either the Greenbelt Park headquarters (as you enter the park) or the Ranger Station at the campground—the cancellations are identical at both. We found no differences between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway cancellation at the two sites. Here they are:

Second stamp at Department of Interior

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:53:08 -0400

We had the pleasure of dropping into the National Park Service information office at the Department of the Interior during our recent return visit to Washington, D.C. In addition to presenting Public Inquiries Technician Frances Cherry with a copy of the Passport Companion Guide for the National Capital Region, we also picked up the new cancellation at this office:

BTW, the original stamp here (which is still available) is in upper and lower case: