The Reason Why DC Is Between Maryland and Virginia
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- As everyone knows, Washington, D.C. is named after the first U.S. president. But do you know how he chose its location?
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I love learning the history of my city and hometown and the whole DMV area
That's wonderful! The DMV area has a rich and fascinating history, from its role as the nation's capital to its contributions to culture, politics, and innovation. Is there any specific aspect of the DMV area's history that you find particularly interesting or would like to learn more about?
Yep I lived there. Went to NOVA Annandale 1999. Got my first ticket there on Annandale turnpikes for not wearing a seatbelt, I forgot not intentionally
I live in Silver spring, Maryland, love it.
I live in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
I’ve spent one month in Silver Spring. It’s a great place.
Have there ever been any assassination or assassination attempts in the white house or oval office has anyone done a assassination in these two places es.
Has any one also attempted to assassinate any presidents in the white house has any political figure been assassinated in the white house or capital building or federal building have any presidents or political figures been assassinated in these places oval office to.
Expensive 😫
My first job was at Mount Vernon. Grew up in Alexandria. Went to Fort Hunt high school.
Rip fort hunt highschool
Another reason for the location of DC: the location was used as a bargaining tool towards southern states to help repay the debt from the war. Most northern states, specifically Massachusetts, we’re deeply in debt.
Joseph Capraro did you get that from Hamilton too
And no one else was in the rooms where it happened~🎵
I love the rich history that we have here in Virginia.
703 CRUIZ'N me too. My favorite part of the state is Jamestown (not Historic Jamestowne)
703 CRUIZ'N IKR LOL
703 CRUIZ'N yeah love my state
Northern Virginia for life💛💛
Love my little city here! We live in such a beautiful state guys!
They decided the location in The Room Where it Happened
he also grew hemp
www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-man-the-myth/george-washington-grew-hemp
He didn't grow it for drug purposes.
they tried so hard to avoid saying that
Branon Fontaine You realize no one smokes hemp? Hemp is in the Cannabis family, but has no THC.
It’s ironic you call stoners stupid, when you have very little knowledge about this topic yourself.
Shredder McScumbag .....I know that THC is a Schedule I Drug because it cures nothing, it may help relieve symptoms of cancer and other shit in cancer patients, but it cures nothing. All this medical marijuana bullshit was created because assholes just wanna get high, that's it. "Uppers Downers All-Arounders 7th Edition"
I am sure George Washington grew plants for medical purposes. And i am also sure he grew them for industrial reasons too. Good for him that he did alot with his life instead of arguing about weed over a faceless & nameless communication system
Arlington, VA native here
No one cares
Brian Baer I care
It’s a little surprising that video ends without explaining that Virginia withdrew their land contribution to DC. The result being a city that included only the land north of the Potomac River. When you look at a map of DC, the thing that jumps out is that it looks like it was intended to be a square- and it was.
The name Federal City was the name of a local college probably until 1990 or so. It became the University of the District of Columbia.
"Experimenting with a wide range of other crops"
I can still get a laugh from my buddies anytime we look at a diagram or a map.
From pg county, md
I might be going to Mount Vernon this summer!
Spotted Hyena did you ever go?
have you ever gone yet?
How was it
@@kaleb7418 do I know you know a person named caleb helms who goes to my school.
Thank You
Dc is actually in Maryland it's just a district
Its in va
@@bigperky2301 it’s not in Virginia it’s a federal district
I love that live 15 minutes from Alexandria and mount Vernon
Wheeling,oh
Could we get captions added?
Can someone explain me why Washington DC ain't in Washington state?
because washington state wasnt a thing back then and maryland and virgina were one of the first 12 states and thats where he chose it
Washington state was discovered and named longggg after the conception of dc (the district of columbia) when we decided to expand all the way to the west coast far outside of the original 13 colonies which were pretty much all of the US. So at the time DC was created DC was in the center of the US as we were only conposed of the states on the east coast and maryland and virginia are in the middle of the east coast. The real question is why is washington state called washington when we already named the federal city named that.
Because Washington D.C. is named after George Washington the father of Virginia. And first commander of the US Army.
Half in Virginia, half in Maryland. Makes sense.
I live in Fairfax, Virginia
Vip Tube Gaming nice. I live in Silver spring, Maryland
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I live in falls church.
I live in Chesterfield
The District of Columbia (DC) is located between Maryland and Virginia because of historical and practical reasons related to the establishment of the United States as the nation's capital.
In the late 18th century, the Founding Fathers sought a location for the new federal capital. In 1790, the Residence Act was passed, which authorized the creation of a federal district to serve as the permanent seat of the government. The act specified that the district would be situated on the Potomac River, and it gave the president the authority to select the exact location.
George Washington, the first President of the United States, played a crucial role in choosing the site for the new capital. He selected an area along the east bank of the Potomac River, which included parts of Maryland and Virginia. The decision was influenced by various factors, including the desire for a central location between the northern and southern states and the symbolic gesture of establishing a new, neutral territory for the federal government.
The chosen location, often referred to as the Federal City, was surveyed and laid out by Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant. The area was officially named the District of Columbia, and it was to be under the direct jurisdiction of the federal government, ensuring that no single state would have undue influence over the capital.
The city of Washington, D.C., was subsequently developed within the boundaries of the District of Columbia, serving as the capital of the United States. While the states of Maryland and Virginia originally ceded land for the creation of the federal district, Virginia's portion was retroceded back to the state in 1846, leaving the current boundaries of Washington, D.C., as we know them today.
What happened to all the full episodes
That was the main reason I used to believe DC shouldn't become a state but the area has changed over the centuries and parts of DC should be given statehood.
Why?
@@jamesmcgraw4584 Because there are over 700,000 people living here now yet we have no voting representation in Congress. We pay more in Federal taxes per capita than every other state except one. We have more people than Vermont and Wyoming, yet each of those states have a Representative and two Senators. We elect a Representative to Congress but she has no voting power.
@@zbagz01 and you live in an area expressly defined as such a space. If anything the areas outside the federal district should be incorporated into the surrounding states.
@@jamesmcgraw4584 Why?
@@zbagz01 Why should you be folded in to surrounding states?
Where did the name Disctrict of Columbia come from? Was it really from Christopher Columbus?
osky2558 have you ever heard the British Columbia. That’s who we belonged to
Yes, yes it was.
It was because the original US colonies were refered to as Columbia and NOT America back then so it was just an old fashioned way of saying "district of America" and yes its a reference to Christopher Columbus. Matter of fact before 1814 the national anthem was a song called "hail columbia".
It was the former home of Juan Valdez (and his fuzzy little burro).
I'm pretty sure the root of 'Columbia' is "column", like pillars (Boaz and Jachin). It's a Freemason thing...
A great nation began here
Wrong….Philadelphia
I love mount Vernon 👌🏻
in Bethesda Maryland
same
No Cherry trees????? 🍒 did he really cut all those Cherry trees?
Oh...
Lets be honest, its in Maryland. Its on the Maryland side of the river.
Yeah, but it wasn’t originally just in Maryland. Retrocession of 1846. Look it up.
sn07 Now it’s just Maryland land. There are proposals to reabsorb the non-federally owned parts of DC back into Maryland as a new county.
That’ll just make the bums
The room where it happened?
I live in silver spring maryland
Same
Edward Jones same, silver spring is awesome
I’m bel air maryland
Silver Spring, MD is the first city east of the Mississippi I went to (not including the airport and Metro ride). I flew into DCA, took the metro to Silver Spring, and went to my hotel before exploring DC. I spent 8 nights in Silver Spring on my trip to DC. Silver Spring is a great city, and I want to go back.
Good old GW
Mid-Atlantic Southern Traditions!
I'm from DC, but I don't understand why we handed the territory of Arlington and Alexandria back to Virginia.
Research Retrocession. The Residence Act of 1790 and the Organic Act of 1801.
If District residents want representation, retrocession to Maryland is, probably, the only option.
What a great man
Nicholas Lim you know just enslaved millions and lynched us 🤷🏾♂️ great dude indeed
Saint Prim I’m pretty sure George Washington didn’t lynch millions of Blacks during his lifetime
Bull shit, don't live in his country if you don't like it
+Nicholas Lim, This isn't your country. You're an illegal guest. Please don't forget that.
What the fuck are you talking about lol, maybe you, but not me
Because Hamilton was in the room where it happened!
Montgomery County native
Beautiful land great choice for capital of the USA
It’s all about that down south Virginia ya dig that
Hemp!
Wait what happened to Virginia's part of the square?
Elijah van der Laan Virginia wanted it back and now it’s Arlington
Research "retrocession" in 1846 which will explain it.
Virginia voted to take it back over a slavery dispute later on. DC was abolishing slavery inside the district and residents on the arlington and alexandria side threw a fit along with some other problems they had like lack of representation. Plus the maryland side was clearly growing faster as a city.
All I want to know how the FAA granted permission for aerial footage in this video in otherwise closed airspace.
Y B the smithsonian university and it’s affiliates have special permissions in DC. They are federally funded
How much land did washington own and how much was sold for DC? who else owned the land and how much was paid for it? and did washington suggest this
Are presidential descendants wealthy?
He also grew pot
I like chocolate milk!
I like potatoes.
White milk matters.
My home!
In memory of all of the ancestors the Black and Native that languished here.
Native Americans were also slave owners.
Ohhh the irony 😂
Imagine thinking blacks or native americans have contributed anything to the modern world
Uhhh newsflash: America is the biggest shithole ever...And European settlers have done nothing throughout history but steal, kill and destroy. Everywhere you go you bring about destruction and contribute absolutely NOTHING but only take from those who actually have insight and skills. You "people" even managed to somehow steal God and take His word, His laws and His people and twist it up, whitewash it and ruin it...thus, America is a shithole....
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"Smithsonian Gate." The biggest cover up in history, is the cover up of history.
Sorry to break it to y’all but DC is in Maryland. You gotta cross the Potomac River to Get to Virginia.Remember The civil war? Yea Virginia was capital of the south.
Southern Virginia was the capital of the south - Richmond. And TBH, northern and southern VA today are as different as night & day.
The whole state of Virginia is the south so you right
The whole state of Maryland is in the south. The Mason Dixon line is north of Maryland. Everything from Maryland down is the south. Of course if you want to determine the south by which states succeeded from the union, then that is a different way to look at it, but Maryland was definitely not a free state.
Gannon Buckmaster Maryland Kentucky West Virginia and Missouri they was border states but they also join the union
Jason Campos When it comes to the south Virginia don’t get a lot of credit when is due when a lot of stuff started in Virginia Matter of fact a lot of southern stuff started in Virginia
I argue with dc ppl saying they’re from md
No dc person say’s they from md
@@kdyy3 ik I am dc is apart of md in my eyes
Why does DC no longer have the Virginia bit of the square?
There was no federal development in the land that VA seeded. So a request was made to return it to VA.
@@Drknnja the Pentagon:
"Am I a joke to you?"
@@kabouterwesley83 Virginia portion was returned in March 1847.
Research Retrocession.
Virginia named after Elizabeth the 1st the vigin queen of England
DC is just apart of Maryland.
where did he get all that money
its to bad the white house cant be built next to the playboy mansion
Something is wrong here, DC doesn't extend to the current VA side as shown in this video
cassmanio I believe that the union gave away the Virginia side during the civil war because Virginia was part of the confederacy
The video doesn't explain why that part was given back later, nor does it talk about what other options there were to locate a capital city.
Due to Retrocession.
Look at some major land marks in Washington. A lot of them have a Virginia address. Arlington cemetery, the Pentagon etc... Don't let these clowns fool you.
@@Larant88 those are not Dc land marks lol the pentagon and Arlington cemetery are in Arlington Virginia not DC lol DC is closer to MD than VA you have to cross the Potomac to get to VA while i can just walk across the street from my house in MD and be in DC all 68 square miles of DC is on MD land none of DC is in VA
And the millions of citizens who reside in this city still do not have proper representation in the US Congress. Taxation without Representation.
There aren't "millions" in population in the District of Columbia. It has about 750,000.
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When you count the several hundred thousand people who commute into the District every day from Maryland and Virginia, it’s a million plus.
@@ashleynicole9423 Yes, you're correct but those commuters don't have representation because they don't actually live in the District as per RoboGraham's comment.
@@OSTARAEB4 so they DO have representation?
Dc is in Maryland territory not Virginia
Jason Campos y’all keep it well keep the pentagon
🤔 Maryland is Virginia’s territory not Maryland’s🤪
lies
Of course Virginia pulled out of the deal and Washington today is only the Maryland part. Since Maryland is better
Washington DC is a part of Maryland.
5th generation Washingtonian
Washington DC is more maryland than Virginia
I always felt like New York City should have been the nations capital.
Philadelphia has a much better option is used to be the capital
@@YlO414 Yes it was, but NYC is world renowned and has a deeper history than Philadelphia. I've always wanted to see Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, but New York has better and more options for historic places.
The problem with appointing an existing city as capital, is that this city should then have been separate from its state. New York didn't want to loose New York City and Pennsylvania didn't want to loose Philadelphia.
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"patriot"='pat'(father)+'riot'(debauchery)...you literally practice debauchery of the Father in AMARUCA, Land of the Plumed Serpent!
Did George Washington realize that the new city would become an enchanted holy city that could make people's dreams come true? If you are down and out, you can go to Washington DC and ask Congress to give you money. If you think that other people are down and out, you can go to Washington DC and ask Congress to give money to them. If you need money to keep your solar panel business afloat, you can go to Washington DC and ask Congress to give you money, or to buy your panels, or to force other Americans to buy your panels. If you think that certain people have too much money, you can go to Washington DC and ask Congress to take some of it away from them. If you are concerned with how the ocean levels are rising, you can go to Washington DC and ask Congress to make the levels stop rising. And so much more--anything that you can think of!
That's great! We should be encouraging people to switch to solar energy. Temperatures are rising because of us. If our taxes go towards that, then wonderful! :D I love our planet too much to see it get destroyed.
If you own a company that builds overpriced airplanes, don't be shy about going to Congress to ask for a trillion dollars...
if you are a weapon manifacturer you can ask Congress to invade other countries.
if you own an oil company you can ask Congress to bomb other countries.
Ersin Avseren -- This is why we need to elect the right people to office. This is why we need universal education. In order to have a functioning democracy, the voters must be educated and aware of the issues. If people are ignorant and racist, they will elect someone like Trump, and our democracy will rapidly disappear. Our government will be taken over by the Corporate Right, war mongers, and anti-woman racists.
+GregoryTheGr8ster, Then why are you broke?
But Washington doesn't encompass any land across the Potomac, it is still all Virginia.
tmanepic it was
You are reading the map wrong, it is situated mostly in Maryland side than Virginia side.
You have to cross Potomac to access Virginia.
Public Health And Safety Co take a look at the map in the video, then take a look at the map in present day, then tell me how I'm reading it wrong.
then you should have specified man.
The area south of the Potomac was given back to Virginia because people in the federal district didn’t have representation in Congress
You can check the Wikipedia page called District of Columbia retrocession
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*Shame on you for not relating the real situation as it was when Washington made his selection of the territory.* When you describe at 0:30 Washington "between the Northern and Southern states," you are anticipating future events. By Northern and Southern, you are defining Union and Treasonous states. However, both D.C. itself and Maryland were slave territories. Washington D.C. freed its slaves by purchasing them from the evil-doers who pretended that they could "own" another human being. Among others, one of the physicians who attended Lincoln (shot on Good Friday, died on Holy Saturday) was an evil-doer who had indeed been on of those "pretend" slave "owners," who'd been reimbursed. On the other hand, Maryland continued to be a slave state.
Natewatl you do realize that they aren’t talking about things from the civil war they are saying that D.C. is in a spot that is in between states that are considered in the northern and southern part of the United States they aren’t talking about the civil war or how people thought slaves were property or who shot Lincoln they are saying that D.C. is on a line that divides the United States into the northern and southern part
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@ Fuzed Fragment that’s not what it sounds like...and that’s not true either.
Drugs booze and transportation ... ??
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BALTIMORE is the KING of the south💯
Conceited 0 huh?
Nah, Florida is the king of the South
Pretty sure Baltimore is northern
E.J. Manghram Geographically it’s debatable (mason dixie vs who actually seceded) but culturally it definitely isn’t southern anymore
@@ikarikakarot Baltimore is considered the South technically.
Look Virginia don’t claim DC or Maryland,we consider us as the south down here because we are the Capital of the confederacy,so please stop saying DMV we don’t know nothing about DC or Maryland is very annoying mayne
You that desperate, huh? Just rep Carolina where YOUR’ RE from.
Maryland is the South too
@@757CitiesReppa desperate never born and raised downtown Newport News my folks from the country Franklin, Boykins, Smithfield,Suffolk but Virginia is just like North Carolina and South Carolina so if you can't see that something is wrong with you for real and you can't be from Virginia
@@Larant88 it just Maryland don't have that southern feel like Virginia North Carolina or South Carolina or Kentucky
@@Larant88 like where I live we really don't have nothing but a Piggly Wiggly grocery store at ABC Store in Church's Chicken
He also grew pot
George George bruh