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Plan of the Town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, 1798
This map shows Alexandria as George Washington would have known it. Before Washington served as commander of the Continental Army and as America's first president, he was a surveyor. Washington completed the first survey of Alexandria in 1748 at age 16. This map, created a year before Washington's death in 1799, details the Alexandria that Washington helped build while simultaneously working to found the United States.
Col. George Gilpin, artist; Thomas Clarke, engraver; I.V. Thomas, publisher, engraving, 1798 |