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The Lincoln Memorial under construction, 1917.
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I would have thought there'd be roads.... DC's main roads were laid out in the early to mid 1800s....
Around the same time, and by the same designer that did Indianapolis. Everyone at the time thought he was crazy for putting in absolutely enormous roads. Turned out that he was right to do so.
The Lincoln memorial going up in the early 1800s would have raised too many questions.
Lol, well yeah. I just figured that by the early 1900s DC would have been a bit more developed than it clearly was.
The area where the monuments were put was an actual swamp back then. It was filled in over the following decades...
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