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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 ...
May 11, 1976 (Arlington: Arlington: A boundary stone associated with Benjamin Banneker, (1731–1806), an African American surveyor, mathematician and astronomer who assisted Andrew Ellicott during the first two months of Ellicott's 1791–1792 survey of the boundaries of the original District of Columbia.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in King George County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1]
Map of Virginia. Buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Virginia listed on the National Register of Historic Places: . As of September 18, 2017, there are 3,027 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in all 95 Virginia counties and 37 of the 38 independent cities, including 120 National Historic Landmarks and National Historic Landmark Districts, four ...
Historic marker at location of Jordan's Journey commemorating Samuel Jordan. In March of 1622, the Native Americans of the Powhatan Confederacy launched a surprise attack, known as the Jamestown Massacre, that killed nearly a third of the English colonists in Virginia. The plantation was besieged, but it was not overrun.
10. Williamsburg, Virginia (1632) Williamsburg was founded in 1632 and originally known as Middle Plantation, a fortified settlement strategically built between the James and York rivers on high ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Suffolk, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1] There are 21 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 1 National Historic Landmark. Another property was once listed, but has since been removed.