Sketch of Washington in Embryo

This lithograph is a survey of Washington D.C. created in 1792 and then reprinted in 1893 by the Norris-Peters Company. The sketch shows the areas of the District and who owned the land prior to the development of the capitol city. Edward Pierce owned apple orchards and tobacco plantations on the area that now is the North Grounds. The South Grounds was owned by a tobacco farmer named David Burns.