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L'Enfant lays out the capital
1791
Washington, District of Columbia
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A French engineer laid diagonal avenues over a grid, with the Capitol on the hill and the president's house a mile away. He was dismissed within a year for insubordination and died poor. Benjamin Banneker helped survey the boundary.
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