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Mathematician and Astronomer Benjamin Banneker Was Born


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This plan of the city of Washington, D.C., from 1791 shows Banneker's work as surveyor of our country's capital

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CREDIT: Ellicott, Andrew, surveyor. "Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia: ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government, after the year MDCCC / engrav'd by Sam'l Hill, Boston; in order to execute this plan, Mr. Ellicott drew a true meridional line ... " s.n., 1792. Map Collections: 1544-1999, Library of Congress.



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