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On July 16, 1790 President George Washington signed the Residence Act. The Act mandated that the site of the new US capital not exceed 259 sq km (100 sq mi), and that it should lie on the Potomac River somewhere near the Anacostia River. The city took 10 years to build, and the federal government moved into Washington, D.C., in 1800. Washington died in 1799 and never lived in the city bearing his name.
The lawn and southern façade of the White House in Washington, D.C.
Cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service.
The lighting of this stone lantern signals the beginning of the annual Cherry Blossom festival in Washington, D.C. Japan presented it to the city on March 30, 1954, as a symbol of the enduring cultural partnership between the two countries. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service.
The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is 169 m (555 ft) tall. A difference in the shading of the marble at approximately 48 m (150 ft) shows where construction was halted and later resumed with marble from a different source. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service.
On April 13, 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, which was designed by architect John Russell Pope.
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 1922 and is modeled after the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. It is 30 m tall (99 ft), 57.m long (190 ft), and 36.5 m wide (120 ft) and includes 36 Doric columns, one for each of the 36 states in the Union at the time of Lincoln's death. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service/Carol Highsmith.
The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial was dedicated on 28 August 2011, the 48th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The memorial is located in West Potomac Park at 1964 Independence Avenue, S.W., in Washington, D.C., referencing the year the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law.
A wall of 4,048 gold stars – each representing 100 killed – at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service.
A view of Arlington House and grave markers at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, D.C.
Secretary of War Edwin Stanton established Arlington National Cemetery on 15 June 1864. Over 400,000 service members (and their eligible dependents) from all of America’s major wars are interred in Arlington’s 639 acres (259 ha; almost exactly 1 sq mi).
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
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