Did You Know

Benjamin Banneker had constructed the city of Washington D.C. Well actually he reconstructed it. Pierre-Charles L'Enfant had started constructing it. Benjamin had started reconstructing it after Pierre-Charles L'Enfant ran off with his plans. But now a biographer Silvio Bedini argues that the story cannot be true, since Banneker left the project long before L'Enfant did. So According to Arnebeck, "There is no evidence that Banneker contributed anything to the design of the city."