Identifier: picturesquewashi00moor (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence, J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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red by the members from the SouthernStates, and by President Washington, has proved with the passage ofyears a most judicious one. Originally the boundaries of the Fed-eral Territory were located, defined, and limited as follows : Be-ginning at Jones Point, being the upper cape of Hunting Creek, inVirginia, and at an angle in the outset of forty-five degrees west ofthe north, and running in a direct line ten miles for the first line ; thenbeginning again at the same Jones Point, and running another directline at a right angle with the first, across the Potomac, ten miles forthe second line ; then from the termination of the said first and secondlines, running two other direct lines, of ten miles each, the one cross-ing the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, and the other the Potomac,and meeting each other in a point. This territory was ten milessquare, or one hundred square miles, and comprised sixty-four thou-sand acres of fertile lands situated between 380, 48 and 380, 59 northlatitude.
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<u a o —4 P IO M CO 3 3 •JZ CHAPTER II. FOUNDING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL—LENFANTS PLAN OF WASHINGTON —THEORIGINAL PROPRIETORS OF THE LAND —A LOVELY HEIRESS, AND HER WOO-ERS—REMOVAL OF THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT TO THE CAPITAL CITY—HISTORICAL SKETCHES —THE BRITISH INVASION—PECULIAR MANNERS ANDCUSTOMS OF THE EARLY DAYS —GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY —THE CIVIL WAR. WHEN President Washington returned from his tour of theSouth in the summer of 1791, and the wheels of thefamous cream-colored chariot in which he had taken thememorable ride of 1,900 miles rolled up to the westerndoor of the Mount Vernon mansion, he found a visitor awaiting hiscoming. The visitor was Maj. Pierre Charles LEnfant, a skillfulFrench engineer, who had been chosen to draw the plan of the newFederal town. The site of the Federal District had been selected byWashington in the January previous, after long and careful delibera-tion, from the 105 miles of territory embraced in the boundary definedby

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