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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 ...
In 2015, the organisation was tasked by the NSW Government to supply the equivalent of 20,000 new homesites over the following four years in response to Sydney’s growing population. [19] In 2018, the NSW Government reassigned UrbanGrowth NSW's portfolio, [20] with the retail land development portfolio remaining with Landcom. Henceforth ...
The Northwest Quadrant has more than 400 listings, so it is further divided into three parts. The part of the NW Quadrant nearest the National Mall (east of Rock Creek and south of M Street) is grouped with the Southwest quadrant and called "central Washington" for the purposes of this list. The remaining sections are of the NW Quadrant are ...
The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area comprising Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, and its surroundings.
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. The land was originally ...
In 1824, this company received a grant of 1,000,000 acres (400,000 ha) of land between Port Stephens and the Manning River. This land was to be used for agriculture. Stroud was a self-contained village by 1832 and, as early as 1836, the company's storehouses and much of the convict labour force were located there.
The key from a typical cadastral map from the 1890s showed four types of subdivisions; the parish, county, land district and land division. This one is located in the County of Wallace. The Crown Lands Act of 1884 further divided New South Wales into three land divisions; Western, Central and Eastern; as well as Land Boards and Land Districts.
Tahlee is a heritage-listed former pastoral property of 68.8 hectares (170 acres) in the suburb of Tahlee situated on the north side of Port Stephens near Karuah in New South Wales, Australia. It is the original site of the Australian Agricultural Company and more recently the location of the former Tahlee Bible College .