Destroying the Library
Historical marker location:
200 3rd Street Southeast, Capitol Hill, District of Columbia
( Marker is at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast and 3rd Street Southeast, on the right when traveling west on Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast.)
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
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The District was originally much larger: The District of Columbia originally included land from both Maryland and Virginia, but in 1846, the portion of the District that had been taken from Virginia was returned to the state.