Washington, DC is located in the mid-Atlantic region, 90 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean, south of Maryland, north of Virginia and 233 miles south of New York City. The city is separated from Virginia to the south by the Potomac River. The city was founded in 1791. Georgetown, which is now one of the city’s most famous neighborhoods, was founded before Washington, DC in 1751. It was incorporated as part of the city of Washington, DC in 1791.

Washington, D.C. became the United States capital on June 11, 1800, previously, the country had been governed from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed to be a beautiful city with wide streets and many trees. The city is divided into four quadrants, or sections: Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast. The U.S. Capitol building marks the center of the city and is where the four quadrants meet. There are thousands of Japanese cherry trees that circle the Tidal Basin and the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C a gift from the people of Tokyo, Japan, in 1912. Every spring a two-week-long National Cherry Blossom Festival occurs where thousands of visitors from around the world attend to see the magnificent trees in full bloom.
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In the Constitution of 1789 an area10 square miles was reserved as the Federal Capital of the United States on the banks of the Potomac River. The District was established by congressional acts of 1790 and 1791 and selected by George Washington.

This federal area was first called Territory of Columbia and the federal city the City of Washington. The land was donated by Virginia and Maryland. In 1846, the portion donated by Virginia territory was returned to Virginia. The area is today 69 square miles.

In 1895 Georgetown became a part of Washington, the city of Washington and the District of Columbia became one and the same.

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The settlement of Nashborough, was named after the Revolutionary War hero General Francis Nash. Two groups of pioneer settlers, led by the founding fathers James Robertson and Colonel John Donelson, came by land and by water from Fort Patrick Henry in East Tennessee. Nashville was founded on Christmas Eve 1779.
Col. Donelson’s daughter Rachel became the wife of Andrew Jackson, the United States seventh president.

In 1862, during the US Civil War, Nashville was overtaken by the Union army. In 1865 the Confederates attempted to regain control in what is known as the Battle of Nashville, considered as the last battle of the Civil War.
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Seattle lies on a narrow strip of land between the salt waters of Puget Sound and the fresh waters of Lake Washington. In the fall of 1851, two brothers, Arthur and David Denny, landed at Alki Point on the west side of Elliot Bay. Soon after their arrival they moved to the eastern shores where they established the small settlement that would become Seattle.
The name Seattle is believed to derive from the Duwamish Indian leader named Sealth. Initially the primary industry in Seattle was lumber and booming cities such as San Francisco provided much of the demand that kept Seattle on the map.
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Denver is one of America’s youngest cities, in the summer of 1858, a small group of prospectors from Georgia discovered gold at the base of the Rocky Mountains. The Colorado Gold Rush began in 1859 when John Gregory discovered “The Gregory Lode” in a gulch near Central City. Within two weeks, the gold rush was on and within two months the population grew to 10,000 people in search of their fortune.
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