Navy celebrates 250th birthday

The Little River Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Fort Towson VFW Auxiliary would like to say Happy 250th Birthday to the Navy. On Oct. 13 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the creation of the Continental Navy.

Mas-sachu-setts supplied General George Washington, then stationed in Massachusetts, with an armed schooner and a sloop for the purpose of seizing British …