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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), District of Columbia. (search)
n. 22, 1791 Nineteen proprietors agree upon terms for sale of lands to the government. Lots for public buildings to be paid for at $125 per acre, streets free; other lots to be the joint property of the owners and the public trustees......March 30, 1791 President Washington proclaims the lines and boundaries of the District. A square comprising 64 square miles in Maryland and 36 in Virginia......March 30, 1791 First stone marking boundary of the District set in Jones's Point, Hunting March 30, 1791 First stone marking boundary of the District set in Jones's Point, Hunting Creek, Va.......April 15, 1791 Commissioners agree to call the federal district the Territory of Columbia, and the federal city the City of Washington, and to name the streets of the latter alphabetically one way and numerically the other......Sept. 9, 1791 Corner-stone of President's house in Washington laid......Oct. 13, 1792 Corner-stone of north wing of the Capitol laid......Sept. 18, 1793 First newspaper, the National Intelligencer, published in Washington......1800 Congress