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I was just reading a recent "George Washington's Final Battle" which details Washington's struggle to get the capital built where it is. The main reason for the
by vondur 6y ago
I was just reading a recent "George Washington's Final Battle" which details Washington's struggle to get the capital built where it is. The main reason for the location was to be somewhere halfway between the Northern and Southern states; any other more partisan location may have caused a breakup of the Nation. (at least that's what Washington believed)
- ahazred8ta 6y agoYou're confusing two different decisions: 1) to relocate the capital to a new federal district in a rural-ish area, and 2) to decide where that federal district was going to be located. You're talking about #2; I'm talking about #1. Washington's recommendation to pick a location in the south came several years after congress had already decided #1. If Washington had not pushed for it, DC would have been built in a different previously-undeveloped area, possibly in the north. Again, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Mutiny_of_1783 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Mutiny_of_1783