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Proprietors deed land for new capital
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In July 1790, when Congress approved the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/393">establishment of a federal capital on the Potomac River</a>, the area they chose was already owned by people who lived and farmed there. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/152">President George Washington</a> and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/308">other government officials</a> negotiated with these proprietors to convince them to sell or donate the land to the United States. In March 1791 <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/94">fifteen proprietors</a> signed an agreement that sold half of their property to the government, while they kept the rights to the other half, which allowed the city to develop while residents kept their homes. Formal deeds of transfer were registered in December 1791.
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1791
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National Archives at Washington, DC. <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/3033275">View original.</a>
building the mall
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Planning and Design
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Pierre L'Enfant plans the Federal City
Description
An account of the resource
In 1791, President <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/152">George Washington</a> hired <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/82">Pierre Charles L'Enfant</a> to create a plan for the <a>layout of the federal city</a>. L'Enfant focused on the area between <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/40">Tiber Creek</a>, today Constitution Avenue and the Eastern Branch, also called the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/424">Anacostia River</a>. L'Enfant <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/393">surveyed the area</a> in the spring of 1791 and created a plan for the city by the end of the year. This plan established the placement of the Capitol and President's House, now called the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/66">White House</a>, and recommended the creation of the public promenade from the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/59">Capitol</a> to the Potomac, the area we now call the National Mall.
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Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3850+ct000509))">View original</a>.
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1791
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building the mall
design & monuments
environment
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Washington. From the original portrait painted by Rembrandt Peale / Drawn on stone by Rembrandt Peale
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Pendleton's Lithography
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003677109/">View original</a>.
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1827
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Birth Date
02/22/1732
Birthplace
Westmoreland County, Virginia
Death Date
12/14/1799
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Politician
Surveyor
Military
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George Washington was Commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Following the ratification of the Constitution, he served as the first President of the United States. He died in 1799, just before the federal government relocated to the capital city which bears his name. Learn more about Washington at the website of his estate, <a href="http://www.mountvernon.org/meet-george-washington">Mount Vernon</a>.
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George
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Washington
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George Washington
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Authorized by The Residence Act of 1790 to select a site along the Potomac to be the home of the new national government, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">President George Washington</a> was heavily involved in the planning and development of the new federal city. He chose the area which is now Washington, DC, as the site, insisting that its southern boundary include the city of Alexandria, which was a part of the District of Columbia until 1846. In 1791, he appointed <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/82">Pierre L'Enfant</a> to create a plan for laying out the streets and major buildings. Although L'Enfant technically answered to the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/308">Commissioners</a> for the Territory, he sent all of his reports to President Washington.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003677109/">View original image</a>.
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George Washington
building the mall
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10/23/1756
Birthplace
Cambridge, England
Death Date
07/31/1834
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Business
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<p class="p1">Thomas Law was born in England to a prosperous family. His father was the Bishop of Carlisle and one of his brothers was made a Baron. When he was 17, he traveled to India to work as a clerk for the East India Company. He rose through the company and developed an interest in taxation and the ways in which it can be used to benefit both individuals and the government. He returned to England in 1791 due to health problems.</p>
<p class="p1">In 1794, Law moved to the United States, partly due to his frustration over a dispute with the East India Company. He arrived in New York but quickly moved to Virginia. Two years after he arrived, he married Elizabeth Parke Custis, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/152">George Washington's</a> step-granddaughter. The couple separated in 1804 and divorced in 1810.</p>
<p class="p1">Law used much of the fortune he had made in India to buy land and houses in the new federal city of Washington. He advocated for the construction of a canal from the Anacostia River to the Potomac following Goose Creek, authoring a pamphlet in 1804 which argued that the canal would bring trade to the young city. The Englishman also supported the arts in Washington, helping establish the first theatre and a dancing society. He died in 1834, having outlived all but two of his children.</p>
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Thomas
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Law
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Thomas Law
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Thomas Law was a wealthy Englishman who invested financially and ideologically in the development of the new city of Washington. In 1804 he wrote a pamphlet, published anonymously, proposing a canal from the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/424">Anacostia River to the Potomac</a> following <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/40">Goose Creek</a>, which he thought would encourage trade in the city. He was one of the incorporators of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/41">Washington Canal</a> Company.
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Papers of George Washington. <a href="http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/george-washington-to-thomas-law/">View original image</a>.
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1800-1829
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Thomas Law
commerce & trade
design & monuments
ghost mall
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Detail of Smith Map
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http://www.loc.gov/item/99446115
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Nacotchtanks
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Nacotchtanks
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The Nacotchtanks are a Native American Algonquian tribe who once lived on land which is now near the National Mall. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/236">Captain John Smith noted that the village had 80 fighting men in 1608</a>. The Nacotchtanks likely spoke the Piscataway variation of the Nanticoke language. Prominent fur traders, the Nacotchtank village was a <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/246">trading center</a> for other Indian tribes on the East Coast and for European fur hunters. Disease from European settlers took a heavy toll on the tribe. Eventually, they moved to Anacostine Island, today called Theodore Roosevelt Island, in the late 1680s. Over time the tribe merged with other local native groups.
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John Smith's Map of Virginia, 1624. <span>Library of Congress Geography and Map Division</span>. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/item/99446115">View original image</a>.
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Nacotchtanks
ghost mall
neighborhood
work & play
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Birth Date
1758
Birthplace
County Kilkenny, Ireland
Death Date
12/08/1831
Occupation
Architect
Biographical Text
<p>James Hoban was born in Ireland in the late 1750s. As a young man he studied architecture and drawing in Dublin, winning a prize from the Dublin Society in 1780 for his architectural drawings. He emigrated to the United States following the Revolutionary War. Between 1787 and 1792 he worked in South Carolina designing public and private buildings.</p>
<p>In 1792, Hoban won the design competition for the President's House to be built in the new federal city. After speaking with <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/152">President George Washington</a>, who had some suggestions for revisions to his design, Hoban travelled to the District of Columbia. While there he also served as the superintendent of the construction of the Capitol from 1793 to 1802, where he implimented William Thorton's design. Hoban remained in Washington, DC, for the rest of his life, designing a number of private buildings as well as ones for government and public use. <br /><br />In 1799, he married Susannah Sewell, with whom he had ten children. He helped to establish the first Catholic church in the city, St. Patrick's Catholic Church on 10th Street, NW. Also, Hoban served as a captain of the Washington Artillery, one of the city's earliest volunteer miltia companies. Hoban died in Washington in 1831 and is buried with his wife in the Mount Olivet Cemetery.</p>
Bibliography
Pamela Scott. "Hoban, James." In <em>American National Biography Online.</em> Feb. 2000.
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for nav purposes
James
Last Name
for nav purposes
Hoban
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James Hoban
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An account of the resource
<p class="p1">James Hoban was an Irish-born architect who won a competition in 1792 to design the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/66">home of the President</a>. He moved from South Carolina to Washington, DC, to oversee the construction of his design. A neo-classicist, Hoban's design influenced the style of other government buildings in Washington, particularly the executive office buildings designed by George Hadfield. After British troops <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/157">burned the White House</a> in August 1814, Hoban was hired to oversee repairs and renovations to the building.</p>
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White House Historical Association, White House Collection. <a href="http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_exhibits/james_hoban/01_whha-hoban.html">View original image</a>.
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1800-1829
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James Hoban
building the mall
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The New York Public Library
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Birth Date
01/24/1754
Birthplace
Buckingham, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Death Date
08/20/1820
Occupation
Surveyor
Mathematician
Biographical Text
Ellicott was born to a Quaker family in Pennsylvania where his father worked as a millwright and clockmaker. As a teenager, he studied math, astronomy, and other sciences. Shortly after Andrew married Sarah Brown in 1775 he moved with his new bride to his father's Maryland property to oversee the mills. During the Revolutionary War, Ellicott joined the Continental Army and rose to the rank of Major. <br /><br />Ellicott first worked as a surveyor in 1784, helping to determine the boundary between Virginia and Maryland. In 1789, he moved his family from Baltimore, where he had been working as a teacher, to Philadelphia to take a job as a federal surveyor. President Washington commissioned Ellicott in 1790 to survey the boundary of the newly established Federal Territory on the Potomac. While in the area, he also conducted surveys within the district for private landowners. <br /><br />In 1801, he refused an appointment as Surveyor General of the United States because he preferred field work to being an administrator. He accepted an appointment in 1813 as professor of mathematics at the United States Military Academy at West Point, a position which he held until his death in 1820.
Bibliography
Silvio A. Bedini. "Ellicott, Andrew". In <em>American National Biography Online</em>. Oxford University Press, 2000.
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for nav purposes
Andrew
Last Name
for nav purposes
Ellicott
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Andrew Ellicott
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An account of the resource
Andrew Ellicott was a surveyor employed by President George Washington to survey the boundary lines of the federal Territory of Columbia, which became the District of Columbia. His survey team included his younger brother Joseph and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/77">Benjamin Banneker</a>, a self-taught African American surveyor. The team laid the boundary stones of the 100-square mile borders of the District. Ellicott also completed and revised the original city plan of <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/82">Pierre Charles L'Enfant</a>.
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New York Public Library. <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1228539">View original image</a>.
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Pre-1800s
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Andrew Ellicott
building the mall
design & monuments
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Daniel Carroll of Duddington was the son of Charles Carroll. His estate was the largest of all those which made up the new federal territory. Most of the Mall and all of the land on which the Capitol sits belonged to him. <br /><br />Notley Young was Daniel Carroll's uncle and owned land to the south of Carroll's. At the time of the 1790 census, he was the third largest slaveowner in the state of Maryland, although most of his slaves probably worked at plantations elsewhere in Maryland. Young's land included the very southern part of the Washington Monument Grounds, and the coast of the Potomac River which faced what is now East Potomac Park, but at the time was just marshland. <br /><br />David Burnes owned land originally bought by his grandfather, also named David. Although initially unwilling to sell his land to the government, he changed his mind and signed on in 1791. His land was north of Daniel Carroll's, mostly north of what is now Constitution Avenue. The White House, South Lawn, and Ellipse are all on land that belonged to Burnes. <br /><br />Benjamin Oden owned land that stretched north from Tiber Creek, now Constitution Avenue. His land definitely included the area that is now Union Station, but it may have stretched down to Pennsylvania Avenue close to the Capitol. <br /><br />Samuel Davidson owned a tract of land in an area called Port Royal. The southernmost part of his property is now Lafayette Square. <br /><br />A small parcel of land, roughly where the Museums of American History and Natural History are today, belonged to the Beall family before the Revolutionary War. Because they were loyalists, the state of Maryland confiscated the land. In 1793, after the agreement with the President but before development had really started, James Williams and Uriah Forrest bought that land from the state. Forrest had already agreed to sell what he bought to the federal government.
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Original Proprietors of National Mall Land
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Original Proprietors of the National Mall's Land
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An account of the resource
In 1791, 15 landowners negotiated with <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/152">President George Washington</a> to give the government land for the <a>creation of a new federal capital, Washingto</a>n. Land from <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/464">Daniel Carroll</a> of Duddington, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/285">David Burnes</a>, and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/252">Notley Young</a> became the National Mall. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/247">Property boundaries were vague</a>, making it possible that Samuel Davidson, Benjamin Oden, James Williams, or Uriah Forrest also contributed small portions of their lands to <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/250">that which became the National Mall</a>.
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Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3851g.ct003599">View original image.</a>
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Original Proprietors of the National Mall's Land
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08/02/1754
Birthplace
Paris, France
Death Date
06/14/1825
Biographical Text
Pierre Charles L'Enfant was born in Paris, France and studied at the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. He arrived in America in April 1777 as part of a unit of French engineers who came to aid the Continental forces during the American Revolution.
After recovering from wounds received at the Siege of Savannah in 1779, he joined General George Washington's staff as a captain. He was with Washington during the winter at Valley Forge.
His architectural career included both temporary and permanent buildings, but not all of his designs were executed. He redesigned New York's City Hall as the location for the US Congress, and George Washington took the presidential oath in that building in April 1789. Plans he created in 1794 to rebuild Fort Mifflin on the Delaware River were too complex and the job was given to another French engineer, Stephen Rochfontaine.
L'Enfant died in poverty in Prince George's County, Maryland in 1825. In recognition of his service to the nation, he was reburied in Arlington National Cemetery in 1909.
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for nav purposes
Pierre Charles
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for nav purposes
L'Enfant
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Architect
Engineer
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Pierre Charles L'Enfant
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L'Enfant was an architect and civil engineer chosen by <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/152">President George Washington</a> in 1791 to survey and design the new federal city of Washington. L'Enfant designed streets in a grid pattern, and he placed major government buildings and parks in the plan. He also designed a "grand avenue" stretching west from the Capitol to the Potomac River, which we now call the National Mall. Disagreements with the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/308">city's commissioners</a> led to <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/299">L'Enfant's dismissal</a> in February 1792. Never fully implemented, his vision for the city continues to influence planners and designers today.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002722830/">View original image.</a>
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Pierre Charles L'Enfant
design & monuments
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Maryland Historical Society
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Birth Date
11/09/1731
Birthplace
Baltimore County, Maryland
Death Date
10/09/1806
Occupation
Surveyor
Mathematician
Biographical Text
Benjamin Banneker was a free black resident of Maryland. His father was a freed slave and his mother had been born free. He lived most of his life in a cabin his father built on the farm which he eventually inherited from his parents. He learned to read and write from his mother and grandmother, and may have attended a local one-room schoolhouse run by Quakers in the winter. Banneker also studied on his own, making a functioning clock out of wood when he was in his early twenties. By 1780, Banneker lived alone on the farm: his parents had died and all three of his sisters had married and moved away. <br /><br />In 1771, George Ellicott, wealthy white man with an interest in the sciences, moved to the area. Ellicott shared his interest in astronomy with his neighbors, including Banneker. Because Banneker was so interested, Ellicott lent him a telescope and some books. Banneker taught himself how to make the calculations necessary to create an almanac. <br /><br />Banneker’s first almanac was published in Baltimore in 1792. He published five more almanacs, one for each year until 1797. These were sold in Great Britain as well as the United States. His publications and scientific achievements were touted by anti-slavery activists as proof of the injustice of racial slavery. Banneker himself wrote to Thomas Jefferson, at the time Secretary of State, to argue for national abolition of slavery.<br /><br />During this period, Banneker worked as a surveyor, assisting <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/105">Andrew Ellicott,</a> George Ellicott's cousin, with the first survey of the what would become the District of Columbia in 1791.<br /><br />Banneker died in his sleep a month short of his seventy-fifth birthday. Sadly, a fire in his house shortly after his death destroyed most of his papers. Although he was a talented mathematician and scientist, his opportunity for advancement was extremely limited because of racial prejudice.
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Benjamin
Last Name
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Banneker
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Benjamin Banneker
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Banneker was a free African American surveyor, mathematician, and almanac author from Maryland. In 1791, he assisted <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/105">Andrew Ellicott </a>with a survey of the boundaries of the District of Columbia. Among his duties on the survey, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/514">Banneker</a> operated the astronomical equipment which helped the surveyors determine their exact location.
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Pre-1800s
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Maryland Historical Society. <a href="http://www.mdhs.org/digitalimage/cover-benjamin-bannakers-sic-pennsylvania-delaware-maryland-and-virginia-almanac-year-1">View original</a>.
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Benjamin Banneker