Naval Square, Philadelphia
Naval Square is a gated community within the Graduate Hospital neighborhood of Philadelphia that served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1834 to 1845, when the Naval Academy formed in Annapolis. It continued as a retirement home for sailors and marines and was called the Naval Home until 1976, when the facility was relocated to Mississippi.
École Navale
The "École Navale", created in 1830, was originally located onboard vessels harboured in Brest, almost all of which were nicknamed Borda (from the name of Jean-Charles de Borda, a famous French scientist of the 18th century). The first vessel to house the École Navale was named "Orion"; it was then replaced in 1840 by the "Commerce-de-Paris", a wooden, three-decked ship. This ship had an inappropriate name for a naval academy, so it was renamed "Borda". In 1863, the academy was transferred to the "Valmy" (the second "Borda"), then, in 1890, to the "Intrépide" (the third "Borda"), and in 1913, to the "Duguay-Trouin" (1879), which had been a school vessel for those applying to the Navy between 1900 and 1912. With the exceptions of the "Orion" and the "Duguay-Trouin", each of these vessels was still christened as "Borda".