Benjamin Banneker
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Banneker was a watch maker and surveyor. He helped survey the land area that was to become Washington DC.
Benjamin Banneker joined Major Andrew Ellicott's expedition to survey the boundaries for the future District of Columbia in 1791. The survey was commissioned at the request of Thomas Jefferson and continued until 1792.
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Major Andrew Ellicott, Benjamin Ellicoot, Joseph Ellicott, Isaac Briggs, Benjamin Banneker, Isaac Roberdeau, and George Fenwick were the surveyors who first surveyed D.C. .
Andrew Ellicott and Benjamin Banneker.
Washington, D.C. is the official capital of the United States of America. The provision for its founding was written into the original Constitution, and its location was chosen by George Washington. It was planned by Andrew Ellicott with the help of several assistants.
George Washington surveyed the Dismal Swamp area. The lake was Lake Drummond.
BENJAMIN BANNEKER was the black surveyor to helped survey the District of Columbia
Banneker was a watch maker and surveyor. He helped survey the land area that was to become Washington DC.
I believe to survey the land . . . the Virginia Military Survey
Survey results vary from saying Abraham Lincoln, to George Washington, to Franklin D. Roosevlet to Ronald Reagon.
The African- American man who helped survey the land that would become Washington D.C. was Benjamin Banneker. He was also a scientist and publisher of almanacs.