A one-of-a-kind holiday shopping with a bit of history.
On the Potomac River waterfront in suburban Alexandria is The Torpedo Factory Art Center. The center is, yes, a former torpedo factory.
The day after World War I ended (1918), the U.S. Navy began construction on the U.S. Naval torpedo station in suburban Alexandria, VA. Designed to build torpedoes launched from both submarines and aircraft, the factory housed torpedo manufacturing facilities for five years after World War I. During the next 18 years of peace, the factory was used as munitions storage depot. (Can you imagine munitions being stored like that today, so close to a major metropolitan area?)
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