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The Founding of Washington D.C., United States | Building the World  There had been intense competition over the capital's location: Virginia wanted ... George Washington hired architect and engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant in ... Banneker was able to reproduce the complete layout  streets, parks, major buildings. ... Latrobe also helped to shape the city of Washington by serving as the first...
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History of Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia  The history of Washington, D.C., is tied to its role as the capital of the United States. Originally inhabited by an Algonquian-speaking people known as the Nacotchtank, the site of the District of Columbia along the Potomac River was first selected by President George Washington. ..... the city's first layout, a grid centered on the United States Capitol, which...
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The History of Washington, DC | Washington.org  Founded in 1790, the nation's capital has been a dynamic city with plenty of ... President George Washington chose the exact site along the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers, and the city was officially founded in 1790 after both Maryland and Virginia ... modern city featuring grand boulevards (now the streets named for states)...
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Alexandria, Virginia  George Washington's Mount Vernon  The city of Alexandria, Virginia, is located on the Potomac River across from Washington ... George Washington assisted the county surveyor in laying out the town into ... At meetings in Alexandria, Washington helped mobilize the county in its first ... the street, where Washington purchased medicine and picked up his mail.
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Alexandria, Va.: George Washington really did sleep here  Feb 14, 2015 ... The city rightly promotes it as George Washington's adopted home town. ... When he was a 17-year-old surveyor's apprentice, he helped lay out its streets ... along the cobblestone streets of Old Town, where Washington lived,...
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Williamsburg during the Colonial Period - Encyclopedia Virginia  Jan 27, 2016 ... The Crown did not agree to move the capital until after the ... During the American Revolution (17751783), Virginia's royal .... "An Act, continuing the Act directing the building the Capitol and the City of Williamsburg, with additions," was .... the Act for the removal of the Seat of Government," on May 1, 1780.
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Popes Creek  George Washington's Mount Vernon  Augustine Washington, George Washington's father, built the plantation house ... The home that Washington was born in has not survived. The plantation was located on Popes Creek, less than a mile south of the creek's confluence with the Potomac River. ... Augustine and his family moved into the house in 1726 or 1727.
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Hours & Directions  George Washington's Mount Vernon  George Washington's Mount Vernon is located roughly 15 miles south of Washington, D.C. and 8 miles south of Alexandria, Virginia on the banks of the Potomac River, at the southern end of the George ... November through March: 9:00 a.m....
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Washington, D.C. History F.A.Q. - The Historical Society of ...  How did D.C. get its name and shape? ... Washington selected a ten square mile area of land from property in Maryland and Virginia that lay on both sides of the Potomac. (In 1846, land formerly belonging to Virginia was returned to that state. ... Senators and members of Congress from the states have voting powers. D.C....
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George Washington's Commission as Commander in Chief: Primary ...  Washington, appointed Commander in Chief ... based on his previous military experience and the hope that a leader from Virginia could help unite the colonies.
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Washington leaves Mt. Vernon for his inauguration - Apr 16, 1789 ...  ... Washington leaves his Mount Vernon, Virginia, home and heads for New York, ... Washington was 57 years old when he took leave of his family, friends and staff ... Eight days after leaving Mt. Vernon, Washington arrived in New York, where he .... the freighter Grandcamp at a pier in Texas City, Texas, on this day in 1947.
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Ten Facts About George Washington and the French & Indian War ...  Painting showing George Washington during his French & Indian War days. by ... George Washington and approximately 160 Virginia militia to return to the Ohio country in March of 1754. ... Washington surrendered to the French at Fort Necessity ... In the aftermath of the British defeat at the Battle of Monongahela, George...
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Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) - Wikipedia  Georgetown is a historic neighborhood, commercial, and entertainment district located in ... Another theory is that the town was named after its founders, George Gordon .... Church, which is the oldest African-American congregation in Washington. ..... at WestEndGuide.us; King, Leroy O. 100 Years of Capital Traction - The...
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Valley Forge  George Washington's Mount Vernon  Washington chose Valley Forge as the winter encampment for his 11,000 men along ... capital of Philadelphia for the Continental Army to keep an eye on the British and ... a Prussian military officer, provided important training for the American troops. ... help from his wife Martha who arrived from Mount Vernon in February.
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Three Capital Cities Locations for Virginia's capitals, 1607 - present  In 1699 Virginia colonial leaders decided to relocate from Jamestown to higher ... favorably on Thomas Jefferson's proposal to move Virginia's capital inland. ... By 1646 Governor Berkeley completed a three unit row house in town at his own...
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Mount Vernon - Wikipedia  Mount Vernon was the plantation house of George Washington, first President of the United States and his wife, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington. The estate is situated on the banks of the Potomac River in Fairfax County,...
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Ten Facts About George Washington and the ... - Mount Vernon  Painting showing George Washington during his French & Indian War days. by ... Shortly after his return to Williamsburg in January 1754, George Washington sat ... only Washington's careful account of his experiences in the Ohio country, but also ... the small circular wooden fort  named Fort Necessity - built in the center of...
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Ten Facts About George Washington and the French & Indian War ...  Virginia's governor sent 21-year old Maj. ... Concerned by reports of French expansion into the Ohio Valley, Virginia Lt. Governor ... Washington departed Williamsburg, Virginia in October 1753 and made his way into the ... George Washington included, were also personally motivated to push the French out of the region.
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Constitution of the United States - A History  May 25, 1787, Freshly spread dirt covered the cobblestone street in front of the ... Washington was unanimously elected president of the Philadelphia convention. ... The resolute Virginian looked to the Constitutional Convention to forge a new...
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Lawrence Washington (17181752) - Wikipedia  Lawrence Washington (17181752) was a soldier and prominent landowner in colonial Virginia. As a founding member of the Ohio Company of Virginia, and a member of the colonial legislature representing Fairfax County, He also founded the town of Alexandria, Virginia on the banks of the Potomac River in 1749. ... Lawrence completed his education and returned to Virginia in 1738,...
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Revealing the Facts and Myths About D.C.'s Street System - Curbed ...  Aug 12, 2014 ... That square was laid out by Major Andrew Ellicott (as in Ellicott City) and ... The L'Enfant Plan covers the area from the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers to ... Beyond Boundary Street you were in Washington County, which was ... it's not much of a grid  the two-syllable streets are mostly cities like Austin,...