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Around noon, a large area east of Topanga Canyon Boulevard and west of Merrimac Road is evacuated.

The volunteers will transcribe the handwriting of the anonymous crewman or crewmen who chronicled voyages of the Merrimac, which sailed from New London on July 17, 1844.

Gallus anticipated a difficult season at his Merrimac Ferry Landing Concessions, but figured he’d be able to weather the expected downturn and survive for another year.

The yearbook is named for Virginia’s famous ironclad Confederate warship, the Merrimac.

About 7:10 a.m., officers responded to the 1500 block of Merrimac Drive in Hyattsville and discovered an unresponsive man with trauma to the upper body, Prince George’s County police said in a statement.