{"exhibit":{"title":"Who owned the Mall land in 1790?","description":"<p>By the late 1700s, the area that became the District of Columbia was settled by European farmers. Native American communities that occupied those lands in centuries past had been driven away by war and disease. Europeans who took over that land owned slaves who raised tobacco, corn, wheat, and cattle. In 1790, the plots that became the Mall were owned by five men: Daniel Carroll of Duddington, David Burnes, Notley Young, Benjamin Oden, and Samuel Davidson. They were compensated for giving their property to the government for the capital city, and became known as Washington's \"Original Proprietors.\"<\/p>","credits":"","featured":0,"public":1,"theme":"","theme_options":null,"slug":"proprietors","added":"2013-04-15 12:14:47","modified":"2014-01-14 12:53:05","owner_id":3,"use_summary_page":1,"cover_image_file_id":null,"id":27},"item":{"item_type_id":6,"collection_id":null,"featured":0,"public":1,"added":"2013-04-16 07:28:35","modified":"2015-11-04 14:48:47","owner_id":3,"id":284}}