22.
Deceased Mary Frances Delorenzo Knight had a reasonable
expectation that all other persons who accessed the Washington Naval Yard where she worked also had been vetted, were safe, and no persons would be granted access to the secured Naval Yard who posed a risk of reasonably foreseeable harm and/or death to the safety of fellow employees on the premises. WASHINGTON NAVY YARD 23.
The Washington Navy Yard is a prominent visible symbol of U.S.
power and might. 24.
The Washington Naval Yard sits on 65 square acres and is the
country's oldest and biggest onshore military installation dating back to its establishment in 1799. The Washington Naval Yard is the U.S. Navy's longest continuous operated Federal facility. For decades it was the nation's largest naval shipbuilding facility. Later the Navy Yard changed from shipbuilding to production of finished ship products and weapons ammunition. During World War II the Naval Yard was the largest naval ordnance manufacturing plant in the world 25.
The land was purchased under an act of July 23, 1798. On October 2,
1799 the property was formally transferred to the Navy. At its peak, the Navy area consisted of 188 buildings on 126 acres of land while employing nearly 25,000 people. In December 1945 the Navy Yard was renamed the U.S. Naval Gun Page 11 of 96
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