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Columbia laid out as a capital
1786
Columbia, South Carolina
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The legislature moved the capital inland from Charleston to placate the backcountry, and laid out a two-mile grid of streets on empty land, one of the first planned capitals in the country. The wide avenues were meant to disperse mosquitoes, which nobody yet connected to standing water.
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