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The news report did not mention Banneker's name. [86] A National Park Service web page entitled Benjamin Banneker and the Boundary Stones of the District of Columbia stated in 2017: Along with a team, Banneker identified the boundaries of the capitol city. They installed intermittent stone markers along the perimeter of the District. [87]
Banneker was born on November 9, 1731, in Baltimore County, Maryland, to Mary Banneky, a free black woman, and Robert, a freed slave from Guinea who died in 1759. [3] [4] There are two conflicting accounts of Banneker's family history. Banneker himself and his earliest biographers described him as having only African ancestry.
A United States postage stamp and the names of a number of recreational and cultural facilities, schools, streets and other facilities and institutions throughout the United States have commemorated Benjamin Banneker's documented and mythical accomplishments throughout the years since he lived (1731–1806) (see Mythology of Benjamin Banneker).
Articles relating to Benjamin Banneker (1731 –1806), a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics and natural history. Pages in category "Benjamin Banneker"
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The lead to "Mythology of Benjamin Banneker" states: "A United States postage stamp and the names of a number of recreational and cultural facilities, schools, streets and other facilities and institutions throughout the United States have commemorated Banneker's documented and mythical accomplishments throughout the years since he lived."
African-American given names (2 C, 14 P) ... Commemorations of Benjamin Banneker; Mythology of Benjamin Banneker; Bayview–Hunters Point, San Francisco; Beauty desert;
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