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Wonderful tribute to a historical mapmaker.
"By all accounts, Mr. Hawkins’s most significant work, a masterpiece of cartography, was a topographical map of Washington as it existed in 1791, when President Washington appointed L’Enfant to design the capital on the banks of the Potomac River."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/10/20/don-alexander-hawkins-washington-dead/
#gischat #maps #DMV #topography #washingtondc #LEnfant #history #DonAlexanderHawkins