Tidal Basin - Washington DC - 1870
The Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., is going to get a wholesale makeover.
At least, the walls will.
Almost none of the National Mall west of the Washington Monument grounds and south of Constitution Avenue NW existed prior to 1882. After terrible flooding inundated much of downtown Washington in 1881, Congress ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge a deep channel in the Potomac and use the material to fill in the Potomac (creating the current banks of the river) and raise much of the land near the White House and along Pennsylvania Avenue NW by nearly 6 feet.
Tidal Basin - Washington DC - 1870
The Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., is going to get a wholesale makeover.
At least, the walls will.
Almost none of the National Mall west of the Washington Monument grounds and south of Constitution Avenue NW existed prior to 1882. After terrible flooding inundated much of downtown Washington in 1881, Congress ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge a deep channel in the Potomac and use the material to fill in the Potomac (creating the current banks of the river) and raise much of the land near the White House and along Pennsylvania Avenue NW by nearly 6 feet.