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From Mary Bellis Survey Map of Washington![]() U.S. Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia Benjamin Banneker's mechanical and mathematical abilities impressed many, including Thomas Jefferson who encountered Banneker after George Elliot had recommended him for the surveying team that laid out Washington D.C.
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