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alphabetical order. Alphabetical names after the letter W would be two- and then three-syllable names starting with A (e.g., Allison St) ending with W (e.g., Whittier St), and then three-syllable names. Selected names are common across the quadrants. Only in the
Northwest Quadrant was a "fourth alphabet" necessary. This fourth alphabet uses botanical names without regard to the number of syllables: Aspen, Butternut, Cedar, etc. Verbena Street NW is the last in this series before the Maryland state line. South of the center city, a similar system would be used with streets named after famous Americans or prominent geographical locations. In 1905, the streets east of Rock Creek Park, north of Florida Avenue, and west of North Capitol Street were renamed in conformity with the single street-naming system. Eventually all street names in the District of Columbia were made to conform to a single street-naming system.
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Washington and Georgetown must have streets that conform to the general plan of the City of Washington. However, the law allowed existing streets to remain, contrary to the wishes of the commissioners of
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American cities, which post a plaque bearing a zero or a one followed by an arrow. Subsequent blocks are marked in the conventional fashion as "100", "200", and so forth.
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was a proposed network of freeways in the city center; however, only portions of it were ever built. Today, the "inner loop" is most frequently used to describe the inside lanes of 495—that is, those that travel clockwise around
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neighborhood; it does not belong to the series of lettered streets. There are also no X, Y, or Z streets in any quadrant, and most or all of A and B streets are called by other names in the Mall area.
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1415:Centennial History of the City of Washington, D.C.
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1878:Ovason, David (2002).
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1100:"Public Road Length"
1086:Notes and references
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986:North Capitol Street
974:Massachusetts Avenue
661:North–south streets
491:Massachusetts Avenue
288:L'Enfant's plan for
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2564:Interstate Highways
2236:MacArthur Boulevard
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1906:- Ghosts of DC blog
1828:The Washington Post
1805:The Washington Post
1163:Library of Congress
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994:East Capitol Street
982:South Dakota Ave NE
970:Independence Avenue
966:Constitution Avenue
962:Pennsylvania Avenue
894:E Street Expressway
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544:Organic Act of 1871
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476:Independence Avenue
472:Constitution Avenue
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1621:Snopes: Fact Check
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1537:, August 22, 2008.
1533:using search term
1161:Repository of the
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