 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1874 - 1288 pages
...and 86 square miles of Virginia, constituting the county of Alexandria, ceded in 1789. The portion on the Virginia side of the Potomac was retroceded to that state in 1846. In 1814 Washington was taken by the British, who burned the capitol, presidential mansion,... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Charters - 1909 - 702 pages
...District of Columbia was formed out of territory ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland ; the land on the Virginia side of the Potomac was retroceded to that State by the act of Congress of July 0, 184<5. Authority was given to the Commissioners by the act of March... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Reed - United States - 1916 - 648 pages
...of territory containing one hundred square miles, ceded Columbia by Maryland and Virginia in 1790. The territory on the Virginia side of the Potomac was retroceded to that state, so that the District now consists of about seventy square miles on the north bank of the river. Various... | |
 | Philip J. Schwarz - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 276 pages
...their branch of the Underground Railroad. Such activities would continue when the area of the District on the Virginia side of the Potomac was retroceded to that state in 1846. But as Grimes had learned from his prosecution and penitentiary term in Virginia for aiding... | |
 | Washington (D.C.) - 1897 - 648 pages
...36 square miles of Virginia soil, constituting the County of Alexandria, ceded in 1789. The portion on the Virginia side of the Potomac was retroceded to that state in 1846. Mr. President, my acquaintance with Washington began fifty-eight years ago Friday next. Upon... | |
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Maryland ; the land on the Virginia side of the Potomac was retroceded to that State by the act of Congress of July 0, 184<5. 