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On this day is when Gray officially named the river Columbia and bestowed other landmarks with names: Capt. Grays named this river Columbia’s, and the North entrance Cape Hancock, and the South Point Adams. [18] Then on May 20, Gray and crew took up anchor around 1 pm to sail for the ocean.
Robert Gray (May 10, 1755 – c. July 1806) was an American merchant sea captain who is known for his achievements in connection with two trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America, between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the American maritime fur trade in that region.
Artist sketch of ship on the Columbia River. Early authorities claim the ship was built in 1773 by James Briggs at Hobart's Landing on North River, in Norwell, Massachusetts and named Columbia. [1] Later historians say she was built in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1787. In 1790 she became the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe.
A 1791 amendment to the Residence Act specifically prohibited the "erection of the public buildings otherwise than on the Maryland side of the river Potomac." [51] The institutions of the federal government, including the White House and the United States Capitol, were therefore located in Washington, on the east side of the Potomac River. This ...
The shuttle program was marked by triumphs and failures, including the 2003 Columbia disaster. The tragedies left a lasting mark on the perception of risks in space.
Columbia is a planned community in Howard County, Maryland, United States, consisting of 10 self-contained villages.With a population of 104,681 at the 2020 census, it is the second-most-populous community in Maryland, after Baltimore.
A map of the United States showing land claims and cessions from 1782 to 1802. The state cessions are the areas of the United States that the separate states ceded to the federal government in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
A federal district planned to house the federal government by 1800 was formed from land ceded by Maryland and Virginia, [84] [85] consisting of a 100 square mile diamond, with its southern tip at Jones Point, straddling the Potomac River. It did not yet have a formal name, being simply referred to as the federal district; in September 1791, the ...