Existing comment:
Forrest Marbury House
circa 1788
Category I Landmark
National Register of Historic Places
* Site of a dinner hosted by General Uriah Forrest for his old friend and
former commander, President George Washington, or March 29, 1791.
Landowners of Carrollsburg and George Town attended an agreement
was reached for the sale of half of their land within the newly
designated 10 mile square Federal District thus creating a new capital
city for the United States of America. Immediately, thereafter, Pierre
L'Enfant began to lay out the magnificent city of Washington DC.
* From 1800 to 1835, residence of the William Marbury of the legal case
"Marbury Vs Madison". In 1803, through this case, the United States Supreme
Court established its right of judicial review of congressional action.
* In 1988, the Forrest Marbury House was restored by George C. Gerber,
Alastair G. Law, and their families in time for the celebrations of the
bicentennial of the Constitution, George Washington's inauguration and
the founding of Washington, DC. |