Plan of the city of Washington in the District of Columbia : established as the permanent seat of the government of the United States, extended to embrace its suburban towns, villages, &c. and the city of Georgetown and showing original and other valuable data not to be found on any maps heretofore published : also a diagram of the avenues showing their true courses and distances and a plan of Alexandria /
Summary
Depths shown by contours.
Also covers Rosslyn (Va.).
Also shows block numbers, water and sewer lines, streetlights, major buildings, and streetcar lines.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the Office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in the year 1870."
Includes notes, insets of D.C. avenues and Alexandria, and population table.
LC copy darkened, fold-lined, soiled, missing small edge sections, and annotated in red ink to show unidentified numbered districts.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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Date
1870 - 1879
Contributors
Forsyth, William (Surveyor)
District of Columbia. Office of the Surveyor.
District of Columbia. Board of Public Works.
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain