How the Backwater Town of Washington, D.C. Become the Beacon of a Nation – Smithsonian

How the Backwater Town of Washington, D.C. Become the Beacon of a Nation
Smithsonian
When President-elect Abraham Lincoln slipped into Washington’s Baltimore & Ohio station at dawn on February 23, 1861, he looked up at the first bare bones of the new Capitol dome. It was an apt illustration of the nation’s capital at that historic

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