Great article about the Francis Bannerman  and the Bannerman Castle. He was deemed the “father of the modern-day army-navy surplus stores”, purchasing “90 percent of the captured military goods from the Spanish-American War”, while “having already collected much of the surplus from The Civil and Revolutionary Wars.”

Read more: http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/12/20/memorabilia-mecca/#ixzz19QY5qgUv