On July 16, 1790, then-President George Washington signed the Residence Act, which established that a capital city would be built along the Potomac River, said the website of the Library of Congress.

Historians are hopeful that one of the four human skeletons recently found in the basement a Georgetown home could be those of one of the most famous former slaves in the history of Washington, D.C.

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