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Georgetown

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Georgetown

District of Washington, DC, situated about 3 km/2 mi northwest of the White House. It has many colonial buildings and is an affluent residential section of the capital.

As a settlement Georgetown predates Washington. It was a small but flourishing town in Maryland when in 1790 George Washington selected the area for the District of Columbia which was to contain the nation's capital. Georgetown maintained a separate municipal existence until 1895, when it was incorporated into Washington. Georgetown University is the oldest Jesuit school in the country (1789) and is built in Gothic Revival style.



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