GEORGETOWN
This is where it all began.
Georgetown is the most historic neighborhood of the Federal capital and thanks to its active community, it also is the best preserved.
Renowned for its federalist architecture, historic brick row houses, cobblestone streets and grand estates dating back as early as the mid-1700s. Some doors can still be open today, uncovering refined estate and gardens. Thomas Jefferson, Francis Scott Key - author of the "Star Spangled Banner" both lived here. So did Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Richard Nixon and JFK, actress Elizabeth Taylor and the list goes on. But long before Washington was even a gleam in its namesake's eye, the small town named after King George II of England was a thriving seaport with vessels bound for Baltimore, New York, Charleston and Europe. Founded in May 1751 on 60 acres of riverfront and adjoining bluffs, just 2 years after a young surveyor named George Washington laid out what became the rival seaport of Alexandria a few miles downstream the Potomac, in Virginia...
Half a century later, rival cities would be center stage for a grand development: a Federal Capital!