Another Name is overboard

     Would you name a U.S. Navy facility after a man who caused the deaths of hundreds of U.S. sailors?

Someone did....and the name has only now been changed! 

To quote a Navy Times story about the building at the Naval Academy:

"Before the name change, the superintendent’s house had been named after Franklin Buchanan, the academy’s first superintendent who joined the Confederacy and later commanded several naval battles that killed hundreds of U.S. sailors.

The 34-room residence was named after Buchanan in 1976, according to the Navy.

     The renaming comes as the result of a Defense Department Naming Commission that has in recent years outlined a host of military assets across the branches that required renaming due to their Confederate ties."

 

There's a thorough background story about the initial naming decision in the Capital Gazette HERE.