The Smithsonian Institution is an educational foundation chartered by Congress in 1846 that maintains most of the nation's official museums and galleries in Washington D.C the U.S government partially funds the Smithsonian and its collections are open to the public free of charge the Smithsonian's locations had a combined total of 30 million visits in 2013 the most visited museum is the National Museum of Natural History on the National Mall. Other Smithsonian Institution museums and galleries on the mall are: the National Air and Space Museum; the National Museum of African Art; the National Museum of American History; the National Museum of the American Indian; the Sackler and Freer galleries which both focus on Asian art and culture; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the Arts and Industries Building; the S Dillon Ripley Center; and the Smithsonian Institution Building (also known as "The Castle") which serves as the institution's headquarters the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery are housed in the Old Patent Office Building near Washington's Chinatown the Renwick Gallery is officially part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum but is in a separate building near the White House Other Smithsonian museums and galleries include: the Anacostia Community Museum in Southeast Washington; the National Postal Museum near Union Station; and the National Zoo in Woodley Park. 5 Washington D.C during the later stages of the War! .
In his 1885 memoirs Ulysses Grant wrote:, 1982 81.0% 95,007 14.1% 16,502, Percentage of slaves in each county of the slave states in 1860. Related topics[show] Dulles was also built over a lesser known airport named Blue Ridge Airport chartered in 1938 by the U.S. the airport was Loudoun County's first official airport consisting of two grass intersecting runways in the shape of an "X" the location of the former Blue Ridge Airport sits where the Dulles Air Freight complex and Washington Dulles Airport Marriott now sit today.[better source needed]. John Walton Georgia 1 Yes Principles A town that was chosen as a compromise among two or more cities (or other political divisions) none of which was willing to concede to the other(s) the privilege of being the capital city Usually the new capital is geographically located roughly equidistant between the competing population centres. . Richard Bland Virginia 1 Yes Washington was descended from Anglican minister Lawrence Washington (his great-great-grandfather) whose troubles with the Church of England may have prompted his heirs to emigrate to America. Washington was baptized as an infant in April 1732 and became a devoted member of the Church of England (the Anglican Church). He served more than 20 years as a vestryman and churchwarden for Fairfax Parish and Truro Parish Virginia. He privately prayed and read the Bible daily and he publicly encouraged people and the nation to pray. He may have taken communion on a regular basis prior to the Revolutionary War but he did not do so following the war for which he was admonished by Pastor James Abercrombie. ! .
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