City Of Washington D.C
District of Columbia
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Cherry Blossoms in Washington
1958 : April 18, the Japanese Pagoda, hewn out of rough stone, was placed on the west bank of the Tidal Basin near the Jefferson Memorial and dedicated. It was presented as a gift to the City of Washington, D.C., by the Mayor of Yokohama to "symbolize the spirit of friendship between the United States of America manifested in the Treaty of Peace, Amity and Commerce signed at Yokohama on March 31, 1854...." ... 1952 : The famed cherry grove along the Arakawa River near Tokyo that was the parent stock for Washington's first trees fell into decline during World War II. Japan requested help in restoring the grove in the Adachi Ward, and the National Park Service shipped budwood from descendants of those same trees back to Tokyo in an effort to restore the original site. ... [Read More]
7-Day Forecast for Latitude 38.89N and Longitude -77.02W
Baltimore, MD/Washington, D.C. ... Washington DC, Reagan National Airport ... Locations within 5 miles of this point include...Hillcrest Heights MD...Mount Rainier MD...Arlington VA...Ft Myer VA...Washington DC ... [Read More]
Original Plan of Washington, D.C. (Imagination): American Treasures of the Library of Congress
After showing L'Enfant's manuscript to Congress, the president retained custody of the original drawing until December 1796, when he transferred it to the City Commissioners of Washington, D.C. One hundred and twenty-two years later, on November 11, 1918, the map was presented to the Library of Congress for safekeeping. ... Pierre-Charles L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the city of Washington is one of the great landmarks in city planning. It was, L'Enfant claimed, "a plan whol[l]y new," designed from its inception to serve as the framework for the capital city of the new nation beginning in the year 1800. Its scheme of broad radiating avenues connecting significant focal points, its open spaces, and its grid pattern of streets oriented north, south, east, and west is still the plan against which all modern land use proposals for the Nation's Capital are considered. ... [Read More]
Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C.
Selecting sites a few miles outside the city limits, Barnard's engineers picked high points that overlooked major turnpikes, railroads, and shipping lanes. Natural fords upriver from the city, allowing the enemy to cross the Potomac during low water, spurred the building of more forts and batteries. Rifle pits filled the gaps. By spring 1865, the defense system totaled 68 forts and 93 batteries with 807 cannons and 98 mortars in place. Twenty miles of rifle trenches flanked the bristling strongholds, joined by more than 30 miles of military roads over which companies of solders and guns could move as reinforcements. Washington had become the most heavily fortified city in the world. ... [Read More]
Ben's Guide (3-5): Quick Facts: Washington, D.C.
Named after George Washington and Christopher Columbus. ... Washington, D.C. is neither a state nor territory, but has a government that resembles both. ... Quick Facts: Washington, D.C. ... [Read More]
Ben's Guide (6-8): Our Capital, Washington, D.C.
One of the issues the President had to deal with was a permanent location for the country’s seat of government. As part of a compromise, it was decided that the capital would move to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1791 for ten years and then to a suitable permanent location on the Potomac River. Washington chose an area that included land from the states of Maryland and Virginia. At this time the area was primarily farm and marsh lands. Nevertheless, Congress was scheduled to meet in the new capital on the first Monday in December 1800. ... [Read More]
Washington D.C., Became the Capital
Where are the White House, the Capitol, and the Washington Monument? Just where they should be--in the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, Congress declared the city of Washington in the District of Columbia, the permanent capital of the United States. Who decided how the new city should look? ... President George Washington commissioned French engineer Pierre-Charles L'Enfant to create a plan for the city. What did L'Enfant do to make the new capital different from other cities? ... [Read More]
District of Columbia
French-born American engineer, architect, and urban designer Pierre-Charles L'Enfant designed the city's basic plan, which features wide avenues radiating from the Capitol building through a grid of streets with numerous circles and parks. The name District of Columbia honors Christopher Columbus, and the city's better-known name of Washington, honors the first president. Congress first met in Washington in 1800, although construction of the first phase of the Capitol was not completed until 1826. Today, millions come to Washington, D.C. each year to see the Capitol, the White House, the Library of Congress, and the city's many museums and monuments. The flower is the American beauty rose. ... [Read More]
DC info
Washington has a temperate midlatitude climate with mean temperatures of 3 deg C(37 deg F) in January and 26 deg C (79 deg F) in July. Summers are hot andhumid, and yearly precipitation totals nearly 1,016 mm (40 in). Contemporary City As the seat of the U.S. government, Washington plays a unique role both innational and international life. As the only major planned city in the country,it is also one of the eastern seaboard's most impressive. The centralnorthwestern portion of the city, surrounding the Mall, is the focus ofgovernmental activity and is defined by the structures housing the various unitsof government: the Capitol , atop Capitol Hill; the White House , at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue;the Supreme Court ; the Library of Congress ; the State Department; the Justice Department ; the Federal Bureau of Investigation ; andmany more. Interspersed among these buildings are the Washington Monument (163m/535 ft; 1884); the Lincoln (1922) and Jefferson (1943) memorials on eit ... [Read More]
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