Description
Long before it became a bustling capital, Washington, D.C. was a patchwork of farms and country estates spread across a quiet rural landscape. This presentation traces the transformation of that landscape from the late 18th century until the last farm ceased operation in the 1960s. As the city grew beyond its original bounds, most of these farmsteads and estates disappeared, but traces remain—in the old country lanes that still snake quietly through the city grid and in the occasional house sitting askew among its neighbors.
