Jones Point

The 1910 Plan to Take Alexandria Back from Virginia

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Andrew Ellicott's 1792 map of the Territory of Columbia, showing the diamond-shaped federal district with the Potomac River cutting through, L'Enfant's planned street grid for Washington City at center, and the surrounding hills rendered in hatched relief.

In 1910, Taft, Hannis Taylor, and Washington’s Board of Trade tried to undo the 1846 Alexandria retrocession. Virginia and a lame-duck clock stopped them.