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Map of the boundary stones. The District of Columbia (initially, the Territory of Columbia) was originally specified to be a square 100 square miles (260 km 2) in area, with the axes between the corners of the square running north-south and east-west, The square had its southern corner at the southern tip of Jones Point in Alexandria, Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac River and ...
Territorial evolution of the District of Columbia. District of Columbia retrocession is the act of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the federal government of the United States for the purpose of creating its federal district for the new national capital, which was moved from Philadelphia to what was then called the City of Washington in 1800.
Oakland Historic District is a national historic district in Oakland, Garrett County, Maryland. It is an L-shaped area in the central and older section of Oakland containing 206 buildings. They reflect the evolution of this rural county seat from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries.
Oakland is in the south-central to western portion of Garrett County. It is set in a small valley near Deep Creek Lake.According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.60 square miles (6.73 km 2), of which 2.59 square miles (6.71 km 2) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) is water.
The bed of the Potomac River was also considered to be part of Washington County. [1] Originally Alexandria County, D.C. formed the portion of the District west of the Potomac River, ceded by the commonwealth of Virginia. Alexandria County, including the City of Alexandria, was returned to Virginia by Congress in 1846, leaving just Washington ...
Animated map of the District of Columbia. The city of Washington was not incorporated until 1802. The District of Columbia was created in 1801 as the federal district of the United States, with territory previously held by the states of Maryland and Virginia ceded to the federal government of the United States for the purpose of creating its federal district, which would encompass the new ...
The Burning of Washington, also known as the Capture of Washington, was a successful British amphibious attack conducted by Rear-Admiral George Cockburn during Admiral John Warren's Chesapeake campaign. It was the only time since the American Revolutionary War that a foreign power had captured and occupied a United States capital.
3d Military District, 1813–15 (New York "from the sea to the highlands," and East Jersey) 4th Military District, 1813–14 (West Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware) 4th and 10th Military Districts (consolidated), 1815; 5th Military District, 1813–15 (Maryland and Virginia) 6th Military District, 1813–15 (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia)