Washington DC Adult Entertainment: Lincoln’s forgotten fort
Written on September 9, 2010 – 3:25 am | by larrylibido
… It’s the first time I came here and saw people during the day,” the suspicious officer explained, puncturing the attempt of Fort Stevens defenders to argue that the fort is a tourist attraction.
Pastor Joseph Daniels of the Emory United Methodist Church defended his expansion, saying that it was not a halfway house, as some critics feared, but a combo community center and low-cost housing. He said they would put in a Fort Stevens visitor center and gift shop.
“For years, Fort Stevens was a place where many prostitutes and drug addicts and the like would practice their difficulty,” the pastor said. “They would get drunk and get high and participate in prostitution at the fort and sell their drugs behind the cannons. It was not unusual for us to find used condoms and used syringes in and around the stairwell of the church, along with empty bottles and beer cans.”