(As of May 21, 2013 - This article has been inexplicably deleted, even though it was on the Web on Wikipedia back in 2007.)
Rome, Maryland, was the original name of a community within Prince George's County, Maryland, which would eventually become Washington, District of Columbia. Specifically, Rome was the original community name of Capitol Hill, upon which the United States Capitol Building sits.
In 1663, the property that would become the Capitol's site was inscribed in the Maryland property records as “Rome,” its owner a man named Francis Pope. The southern boundary of this property was shaped by a river named for the river that runs through Rome, Italy, the Tiber.
The community was part of the ten mile square tract of land which would become the American capital Washington, D.C., and its owner, Daniel Carroll, transferred the community to the federal government after the amendment to the United States Constitution sanctioning the building of the new United States capital city was ratified.
Daniel Carroll was the chairman of a three-man commission appointed by President George Washington to find a suitable location for the capital city. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Daniel Carroll was a Roman Catholic educated by Jesuits in Maryland and France. His brother John Carroll became the first Catholic bishop in America, presiding over the See of Baltimore, which included Washington, D.C. John Carroll also founded Georgetown University.
The Darkest Day: The Washington-Baltimore Campaign During the War of 1812, Charles Geoffrey Muller
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Rome, Maryland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rome, Maryland, was the original name of a community within Prince George's County, Maryland, which would eventually become Washington, District of Columbia. Specifically, Rome was the original community name of Capitol Hill, upon which the United States Capitol Building sits.
In 1663, the property that would become the Capitol's site was inscribed in the Maryland property records as “Rome,” its owner a man named Francis Pope. The southern boundary of this property was shaped by a river named for the river that runs through Rome, Italy, the Tiber.
The community was part of the ten mile square tract of land which would become the American capital Washington, D.C., and its owner, Daniel Carroll, transferred the community to the federal government after the amendment to the United States Constitution sanctioning the building of the new United States capital city was ratified.
Daniel Carroll was the chairman of a three-man commission appointed by President George Washington to find a suitable location for the capital city. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Daniel Carroll was a Roman Catholic educated by Jesuits in Maryland and France. His brother John Carroll became the first Catholic bishop in America, presiding over the See of Baltimore, which included Washington, D.C. John Carroll also founded Georgetown University.
References
- Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.
- The Catholic Encyclopedia, Charles G. Herbermann
- Rulers Of Evil: Useful Knowledge About Governing Bodies, F. Tupper Saussy, HarperCollins, 1999, 2001
- Ovason, David, The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: the Masons and the building of Washington, D.C. New York City: Perennial, 2002. ISBN 0060195371 ISBN 978-0060195373
The Darkest Day: The Washington-Baltimore Campaign During the War of 1812, Charles Geoffrey Muller
See also
- Capitoline Hill (the original Capitol Hill in Rome, Italy)
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Tiber Creek
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Tiber/Goose Creek around 1800, and the modern shorelines of the Potomac River.
Andrew Ellicott's revision of L'Enfant's Plan, showing Washington City Canal
Tiber Creek or Tyber Creek was a tributary of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
Originally called 'Goose Creek', it was renamed by settler Francis Pope. Pope owned a 400-acre (1.6 km2) farmstead along the banks of the creek which, in a play on his surname, he named "Rome" after the Italian city, and he renamed the creak in honor of the river which flows through that city. It was southeast of then Georgetown, Maryland, amid lands that were selected for the City of Washington, the new capital of the United States.[1] It flowed south toward the base of Capitol Hill, then west meeting the Potomac near Jefferson Pier.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tiber/Goose Creek around 1800, and the modern shorelines of the Potomac River.
Andrew Ellicott's revision of L'Enfant's Plan, showing Washington City Canal
Tiber Creek or Tyber Creek was a tributary of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
Originally called 'Goose Creek', it was renamed by settler Francis Pope. Pope owned a 400-acre (1.6 km2) farmstead along the banks of the creek which, in a play on his surname, he named "Rome" after the Italian city, and he renamed the creak in honor of the river which flows through that city. It was southeast of then Georgetown, Maryland, amid lands that were selected for the City of Washington, the new capital of the United States.[1] It flowed south toward the base of Capitol Hill, then west meeting the Potomac near Jefferson Pier.
| 2 The Mysterious Mr. Jenkins of Jenkins Hill: The Early History of the Capitol Site John Michael VlachTHE CAPITOL DOME SPRING 2004 Reprinted with the permission of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. .... |
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