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Excerpt from Bulletin the Columbian Institute Museum the Promotion of Arts and Sciences a Washington Society of 1816-1838, Which Established: A Museum and Botanic Garden Under Government Patronage
The lower section of Pennsylvania Avenue, however, had a desolate appearance, being without houses or brick sidewalks. The land between Sixth Street and the Capitol on the south side and between John Marshall Place and Second Street on the north side, belonging to the Government, was entirely neglected. Some improvements in this neighborhood were brought about through the agency of a board of commissioners appointed in 1822 by the city council, including the partial reclamation of the low lands south of the avenue, in which a site for the botanic garden Of the Columbian Institute had just before been located.
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