Quote:
Originally Posted by Jenson71
For those interested, the story of the selection of the Washington D.C. area is told in a great chapter of Joseph Ellis' Founding Brothers, a very readable, fascinating account Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Franklin, and Burr.
That a city (more, that the capital of the entire country) was named after a living man, like Virginia named after the Virgin Queen Elizabeth, and Jamestown after King James, says a lot about Washington's prestige at the time.
|
It's also covered in detail in the book on Hamilton by Ron Chernow.
And your second point is true, especially since Washington was still alive at the time and it wasn't just a posthumous honor.