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• Canal
  alteration of the Canal" Robert Mills, Plan of the Washington Canal, 1831. Henry Schenck Tanner, City of Washington, c. 1836. A canal is southwest of Virginia
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• Benjamin Henry Latrobe
  1803. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, “Plan of the Washington Canal, No. 1,” 1804, in John W. Reps, Monumental Washington, The Planning and Development of the Capital
  38 KB (4,911 words) - 18:08, September 16, 2021
• Robert Mills
  most ambitious public monument to honor of Washington, the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Mills had proposed a variety of architectural
  31 KB (4,335 words) - 20:13, August 18, 2021
• Mall
  describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 133) “The new section of the Washington Canal was laid out along a line drawn
  20 KB (2,767 words) - 10:38, April 6, 2021
• Basin
  river or sea or a widening in a canal where boats, such as those in Charles Fraser's painting of the basin on the Santee Canal in South Carolina [Fig. 1],
  28 KB (3,634 words) - 15:51, April 8, 2021
• Columbian Institute
  complain that the “foot-way, canals & plantation in the garden” were out of alignment with the new section of the Washington Canal, which “was laid out along
  34 KB (4,708 words) - 21:36, August 16, 2021
• National Mall
  describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 133) “The new section of the Washington Canal was laid out along a line drawn
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• Plantation
  describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 133) “The new section of the Washington Canal was laid out along a line drawn
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• Avenue
  Weber, View of Washington City and Georgetown [detail], 1849. Robert P. Smith, “View of Washington,” c. 1850. Edward Sachse, View of Washington, 1852. Thomas
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• Andrew Jackson Downing
  “Monument Park” (the area surrounding the Washington Monument). A suspension bridge [Fig. 12] would cross the Tiber Canal, connecting the “Monument Park” to the
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• Fountain
  Gardens in the Vicinity of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York,” describing the garden of W. H. Corcoran, Washington, DC (Magazine of Horticulture
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• Park
  1850. George Washington Sully, View of the New Orleans River Front from Canal Street to the Place d’Armes [detail], 1836. George Washington Sully, View
  87 KB (12,484 words) - 13:27, April 12, 2021
• Pond
  water into the culvert at the canal; this would be easily dammed by a retaining wall (some twenty or thirty feet from the canal as the line may be) built of
  60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
• Gate/Gateway
  14, 1836. George Washington Sully, View of the New Orleans River Front from Canal Street to the Place d’Armes, 1836. George Washington Sully, View of the
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• Arch
  general George Washington, to be erected at Baltimore, design for the Washington Monument, 1813. George Bridport, Alternative designs for Washington Monument
  26 KB (3,438 words) - 16:44, March 15, 2021
• Walk
  were accommodated with seats.” Washington, George, February 28, 1785, describing Mount Vernon, plantation of George Washington, Fairfax County, VA (quoted
  146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
• Noah Webster
  n.p.) “CANAL', n. [L. canalis, a channel or kennel; these being the same word differently written; Fr. canal; Arm. can, or canol; Sp. Port. canal; It. canale
  55 KB (8,122 words) - 21:48, October 5, 2021
• Square
  Dakin, New York University, Washington Square, 1833. George Washington Sully, View of the New Orleans River Front from Canal Street to the Place d’Armes
  67 KB (9,305 words) - 17:36, April 8, 2021
• Orchard
  of this fruit garden, see the diary entries in George Washington, The Diaries of George Washington, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, vol. 4 (Charlottesville:
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• Parterre
  garden less than Pensylvania & Every den is an Arbour, Every run of water, a Canal, & every small level Spot a Parterre.” [Fig. 5] Bentley, William, October
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