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3 days ago · In 1790 French-born American engineer and designer Pierre Charles L’Enfant was chosen to plan the new capital city; meanwhile, surveyor Andrew Ellicott surveyed the 100-square-mile (260-square-km) territory with the assistance of Benjamin Banneker, a self-educated free Black man.
1 day ago · Washington took up winter headquarters in Jacob Arnold's Tavern in Morristown, New Jersey, while he received munition from the Hibernia mines. While in Morristown, Washington's troops disrupted British supply lines and expelled them from parts of New Jersey.
4 days ago · Washington Crossing the Delaware, oil on canvas by Emanuel Leutze, 1851; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. It depicts George Washington and his army dramatically crossing the icy Delaware River for a surprise dawn attack on the British at Trenton, New Jersey, on December 25, 1776.
2 days ago · The convention thus immediately faced the question of whether the United States was to be a country in the modern sense or would continue as a weak federation of autonomous and equal states represented in a single chamber, which was the principle embodied in the New Jersey Plan
3 days ago · However, the authors of the US Constitution didn’t simply make it up on the spot. Both Virginia and New Jersey Plans served as drafts that eventually led to the final document. Learn more about those two historic documents with these 40 facts about the Virginia Plan VS New Jersey Plan.
4 days ago · After Congress passed the Residence Act in July of 1790, establishing a permanent national capital on the Potomac River, President Washington appointed Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a French architect and engineer who had served in the Continental Army, to design the new capital.
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1 day ago · As agreed in an 1834 compact between New York and New Jersey that set the state border at the bay's midpoint, the original islands remain New York territory though located on the New Jersey side of the state line.
