http://www.audreyandjon.com/taxonomy/term/76/0 en http://www.audreyandjon.com/blog/20090717/dc-historical-myths-exposed <p>WeLoveDC dusts off widely held myths about DC and debunks them:</p> <p><a href="http://www.welovedc.com/2009/07/07/dc-mythbusting-built-on-a-swamp/" title="http://www.welovedc.com/2009/07/07/dc-mythbusting-built-on-a-swamp/">http://www.welovedc.com/2009/07/07/dc-mythbusting-built-on-a-swamp/</a></p> <p><cite><strong>...was DC really built on a swamp?</strong> Not really– today it’d be called more of a tidal plain. When Pierre L’Enfant set out with a team to survey the city, there was a lot of variety in what he found: fields of tobacco and corn, small forests, and some waterside bluffs and wetlands. </cite></p> <p>More good reading at <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/magazine/features/2008/dc-1791-to-today/story.html" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/magazine/features/2008/dc-1791-to-today/story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/magazine/features/200...</a></p> http://www.audreyandjon.com/blog/20090717/dc-historical-myths-exposed#comments DC WeloveDC Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:21:19 +0000 Jon 34 at http://www.audreyandjon.com