How 1902's City of Tomorrow Became the Capital of Today

The Washington Post | January 4, 1999| | Copyright

A hundred years ago, Washington was a sleepy, swampy, segregated town. Its 279,000 inhabitants -- about a third of them black -- couldn't vote for anything. Takoma Park was a distant village, accessible by railroad, and Tysons Corner was a field.

The qualities that define today's Washington -- center of national debate, hub of a booming high-tech economy, an ever-expanding metropolis stretching from Columbia to Spotsylvania and from the Shenandoah to the Chesapeake -- all came to be in the century now coming to an end.

Every other Monday through the coming year, The Washington Post will tell ...

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