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Map Showing Tracts of Land in Prince George's County, Maryland, Conveyed for the Federal City in 1791
Research by Priscilla W. McNeil. Graphics by Don Hawkins, Cynthia Elliott and Sheila Waters, 1991, 2013
More than two centuries ago, landowners in Prince George's County, Maryland, transferred their property to the US government for its new Federal City. In the 1980s, historian Priscilla McNeil spent more than a decade studying land surveys at the Maryland State Archives to discover the names of those property owners and the boundaries of their holdings. Plotted here are the outlines and owners of the tracts overlaid with a map of the city's streets drawn in the 1790s by James Dermott.
Commissioned for this exhibition, this map updates the original 1991 map. It includes for the first time the boundaries of properties beyond the limits of L'Enfant's Federal City but still within the District of Columbia. |