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In 1791, Pierre Charles L'Enfant surveyed and designed a plan for Washington. With letter streets running east-west and number streets running north-south, the names of the new states were used for diagonal avenues. Since then, more states and more streets have joined the country and the city, respectively.


The inner area is where L'enfant's original plan is. The dates are when each state joined the United States.


Click on any street to see the name.


1787

Streets of DC