July 17, 2016
Meredith Barber, tour guide for DC Military Tours, points through the window of the apothecary where the nurses went to get the medications for the troops injured in the Civil War. She says the 1792 apothecary looks exactly as it did when it was purchased in 1933.
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“There is no real place called Mercy Street although it would have been right there on the 100th block of N. Fairfax Street," according to Meredith Barber, tour guide for DC Military Tours.
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