Before Washington, DC became the capital city of the United States, it was a sprawling, 100-square-mile plot of plantations, forests, and hills. The city's urban plan was the brainchild of French ...

Check out the interactive map below. To see the DC sites, just enter “Washington, DC” in the text ... Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Before this and other plants were built, the city’s ...

A year later, three commissioners managing the capital’s construction named it in honor of President George Washington ... city commissioners worried about rising construction costs and ...