[SkateDC] This Week's Skates

[George Marinkovich]

Or you could go in the chronological order the states were admitted to the union:

Delaware
      December 7, 1787
      

    
    
      Pennsylvania
      December 12, 1787
      

    
    
      New Jersey
      December 18, 1787
      

    
    
      Georgia
      January 2, 1788
      

    
    
      Connecticut
      January 9, 1788
      

    
    
      Massachusetts
      February 6, 1788
      

    
    
      Maryland
      April 28, 1788
      

    
    
      South Carolina
      May 23, 1788
      

    
    
      New Hampshire
      June 21, 1788
      

    
    
      Virginia
      June 25, 1788
      

    
    
      New York
      July 26, 1788
      

    
    
      North Carolina
      November 21, 1789
      

    
    
      Rhode Island   May 29, 1790
which would probably make for a much longer skate...  Then, there's always alphabetical.

Miscellaneous DC trivia:

The geographical center of the original DC square is located at the Organization of American States Building west of the Ellipse.

Florida marked the northern border of the Federal City according to Peter L'Enfant's original plan and so it was first called Boundary St.

Every US state has an avenue named after it in the district, except for two:  Ohio (which has a drive) and California (which has a street).

Interestingly, there is already a Puerto Rico Avenue in DC.

--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Carl Ford <ford at dcaccess.net> wrote:

From: Carl Ford <ford at dcaccess.net>
Subject: Re: [SkateDC] This Week's Skates
To: "MyeongHee Elgibali" <pleskobali at hotmail.com>
Cc: "skatedc" <skatedc at www.skatedc.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 4:16 PM



I would remind the list that the 13 colonies were, in order from north  
to south:

New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

Oooh, we might be climbing Capitol Hill.  I hope you're scared. :-p


Quoting MyeongHee Elgibali <pleskobali at hotmail.com>:

>
> carl,
>
> pls remember this is an intermidate skate w/ older folks;-)
>
>> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:54:15 -0400
>> From: ford at dcaccess.net
>> To: skatedc at www.skatedc.org
>> Subject: Re: [SkateDC] This Week's Skates
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much for the reminder, George.  I am thinking of a
>> 13 Colonies skate, though I won't have all of the details until
>> Sunday.  I intend to get back to the White House in time for the
>> advanced skate to leave.  Quoting George Marinkovich
>> <skatewash at yahoo.com>:
>>
>>
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   --
Carl Ford
ford at dcaccess.net

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