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Lafayette Square in Washington, DC, was settled in 1685 as farmland, but by the 1820s the Square had become one of the first public parks designed in DC. Across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, the park's neighborhood became home to presidents, vice presidents, cabinet members, diplomats, inventors, journalists, heroes, authors, scientists, law breakers, and scoundrels. The publication draws upon photographs from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division and others to impart the story of this important square.
