The Urban West » Washington DC http://theurbanwest.com Official site of Professor Carl Abbott Mon, 09 Oct 2017 17:35:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Washington DC was Not a Swamp http://theurbanwest.com/commentary/washington-dc-was-not-a-swamp http://theurbanwest.com/commentary/washington-dc-was-not-a-swamp#comments Fri, 10 Mar 2017 20:40:41 +0000 admin http://theurbanwest.com/?p=315 To incite some argument, I’ve crafted a short article hat refutes (I think) the popular myth that Washington, D.C. was established in a “swamp.” For my suggestions that Washington was no swampier than most other river cities, you can go to either The Conversation or AtlanticCityLab.

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