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Asylum Avenue in 1865 - Washington DC
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Asylum Avenue in 1865 - Washington DC

Cropped map of the lower portion of southeast Washington, D.C., in the United States in 1865. The map depicts the location of two American Civil War forts, Fort Carroll and Fort Greble, atop a line of bluffs. Major improved roads used for defense of the city are marked in red. The road just east of the line of bluffs is Asylum Avenue.

Date
1865
Mapmaker / publisher
Engineer Bureau, U.S. Department of War
Place
the Civil War Defenses of Washington, D.C.
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
900 × 1,397 pixels

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Reason: a US government work (US Army).

Read from: Commons licence category: PD US Army; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Asylum Avenue in 1865 - Washington DC" (1865). Engineer Bureau, U.S. Department of War. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asylum_Avenue_in_1865_-_Washington_DC.jpg

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