
Sunrise: 06:38 AM EDT - Sunset: 08:10 PM EDT
Tour 4: Southard Street
The public service record of Samuel L. Southard, Princeton grad, is impressive. President James Monroe selected New Jersey Senator Southard to be Secretary of the Navy in September, 1823, and he remained in office under President J. Q. Adams. Southard proved to be one of the most effective of the Navy's early Secretaries. Secretary Southard oversaw Navy forces in Key West just as the K.W. Naval Station opened and Commodore David Porter commanded the Key West expedition for suppressing piracy in the West Indies in 1823–25. Southard Street runs east-west in Old Town, from Emma Street north to White Street.