[SkateDC] This Week's Skates
Paul Wilson
dcmcrider at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 13:59:50 PDT 2009
If you really want to get off into the weeds, how about the streets
that have been moved. Ohio, Missouri, Georgia and Louisiana come to
mind. Ohio, Missouri and Louisiana Avenues were obliterated by the
Federal Triangle and re-assigned elsewhere. Georgia was moved for
reasons I don't know. The original Georgia became Potomac Avenue.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:51 PM, George Marinkovich<skatewash at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Or you could go in the chronological order the states were admitted to the union:
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> Delaware
> December 7, 1787
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> Pennsylvania
> December 12, 1787
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> New Jersey
> December 18, 1787
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> Georgia
> January 2, 1788
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> Connecticut
> January 9, 1788
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> Massachusetts
> February 6, 1788
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> Maryland
> April 28, 1788
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> South Carolina
> May 23, 1788
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> New Hampshire
> June 21, 1788
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> Virginia
> June 25, 1788
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> New York
> July 26, 1788
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> North Carolina
> November 21, 1789
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> Rhode Island May 29, 1790
> which would probably make for a much longer skate... Then, there's always alphabetical.
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> Miscellaneous DC trivia:
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> The geographical center of the original DC square is located at the Organization of American States Building west of the Ellipse.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Interestingly, there is already a Puerto Rico Avenue in DC.
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> --- On Wed, 7/29/09, Carl Ford <ford at dcaccess.net> wrote:
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> 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
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> I would remind the list that the 13 colonies were, in order from north
> to south:
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> New Hampshire
> Massachusetts
> Rhode Island
> Connecticut
> New York
> Pennsylvania
> New Jersey
> Delaware
> Maryland
> Virginia
> North Carolina
> South Carolina
> Georgia
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> Oooh, we might be climbing Capitol Hill. I hope you're scared. :-p
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> Quoting MyeongHee Elgibali <pleskobali at hotmail.com>:
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>>
>> carl,
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>> 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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