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The term \"mall\" originally meant a place where people played pall-mall, a game similar to croquet. By the mid 1700s it had come to mean a tree-lined park where people went to walk and socialize. In the 1790s, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and Andrew Ellicott used the term to refer to L'Enfant's planned \"Grand Avenue\" between the Capitol and the Potomac. During the 1800s, it was sometimes called a \"mall\" but also just \"the public grounds.\" The term \"Mall\" became the accepted name in the 1900s. In 1902, the McMillan plan officially described it as \"The National Mall.\"<\/p>","credits":"","featured":1,"public":1,"theme":"","theme_options":null,"slug":"whymall","added":"2013-08-06 04:59:37","modified":"2014-09-02 14:39:59","owner_id":5,"use_summary_page":1,"cover_image_file_id":null,"id":45},"item":{"item_type_id":6,"collection_id":null,"featured":0,"public":1,"added":"2013-08-07 11:40:07","modified":"2015-11-04 14:44:14","owner_id":5,"id":399}}