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Facsimile of manuscript of Peter Charles L'Enfant's 1791 plan for the federal capital city (United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1887). [2] L'Enfant's plan for Washington, D.C., as revised by Andrew Ellicott in 1792 Thackara & Vallance's 1792 print of Ellicott's "Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia", showing street names, lot numbers, depths of the Potoma River and ...
Plans to run I-95 through downtown Washington via the planned Inner Loop and North Central Freeway were scrapped, prompting I-95 to replace I-495 along the eastern half of the Capital Beltway. Portions built were re-designated I-395. I-95: 0.11 [2] [3] 0.18 Woodrow Wilson Bridge (VA–DC–MD border) 1977: current
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 ...
DC 4 — — — — — — Pennsylvania Avenue was designated DC 4, an extension of Maryland Route 4 that reached at least the east side of the White House. [citation needed] DC 5 — — — — 1939: 1949 Continued into Washington, D.C. on Naylor Road, Good Hope Road, and 11th Street to District of Columbia Route 4 (Pennsylvania Avenue). [1]
Add Silver Line for 2014; drop orange-line rush hour extension; add 5 named stations to silver line; extend silver line to Largo Town Center; add 6 unfinished Silver Line stations; extend District of Columbia line slightly to keep silver line inside DC: 20:34, 19 June 2012: 760 × 630 (65 KB) Rfc1394: Correct to place Benning Road station ...
Washington, D.C., is administratively divided into four geographical quadrants of unequal size, each delineated by their ordinal directions from the medallion located in the Crypt under the Rotunda of the Capitol. Street and number addressing, centered on the Capitol, radiates out into each of the quadrants, producing a number of intersections ...
Statue of John A. Logan in the center of Logan Circle. The surface road layout in Washington, D.C., consists primarily of numbered streets along the north–south axis and lettered streets (followed by streets named in alphabetical order) along the east–west axis.
Secondary road runs from 16th Street to Kalmia Road and Georgia Avenue in Shepherd Park, built in 1911. [3] 0.8 mi (1.3 km) [4] Arizona Avenue NW: Secondary road that runs from Canal to Loughboro Roads in Kent. One of four state-named roadways that does not connect to another state-named roadway.