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    Georgetown street renaming occurred as a result of an 1895 act of the United States Congress that ended even the nominal independence of Georgetown from...
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    westernmost (Georgetown) segment of K street NW was known as Water Street prior to the Georgetown street renaming of 1895. West of 33rd Street NW, the United...
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    separate act, passed in 1895, repealed Georgetown's remaining local ordinances and renamed Georgetown's streets to conform with those in Washington, D...
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    Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana. It is situated in Demerara-Mahaica, region 4, on the Atlantic Ocean coast, at the mouth of the Demerara...
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    century is the house renumbering that occurred as part of the Georgetown street renaming in Washington, D.C. In the 20th century, this occurred in places...
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    Benjamin Stoddert (category People from Georgetown (Washington, D.C.))
    C. In the Georgetown section of Washington, DC, there was a Stoddert Street named after Benjamin Stoddert. In the Georgetown street renaming of 1895 the...
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    Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John...
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    Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (category Georgetown (Washington, D.C.))
    note that Some streets in Georgetown were renamed, mostly as numbered streets, pursuant to an 1895 law. See Georgetown street renaming. "The Grand Old...
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    Georgetown is a large unincorporated community in the town of Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada, in the Regional Municipality of Halton. The town includes...
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    1981, this street was renamed to Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. In the New York City borough of Queens, a huge street renaming campaign began in the early...
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    The Georgetown University Law Center is the law school of Georgetown University, a private research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It was...
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  • Washington University alumni Law School Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) Georgetown street renaming Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball seasons men's basketball...
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    into Canal Road. M Street was originally called Bridge Street until the roads in Georgetown were renamed in 1895 to conform to the street names used in Pierre...
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  • was founded in 1791 to the east of an existing settlement at Georgetown. The original street layout in the new City of Washington was designed by Pierre...
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    facilitate construction of the Georgetown South Expansion project. On December 19, 2011, the Georgetown Line was renamed the Kitchener Line as service...
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    Georgetown County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 63,404. Its county seat is Georgetown...
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    of Foreign Service (SFS) is the school of international relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. It grants degrees at both undergraduate...
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    Georgetown is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,470 at the 2020 census. It was incorporated in 1838 from part...
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  • John Meredith Ford (category Mayors of Georgetown, Guyana)
    1970, Ford renamed High Street in Georgetown, pulling a string during the ceremony to reveal the independence flag of Guyana and the street's new name,...
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  • Washington, D.C. The Main Campus is located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. between Canal Road, P Street, and Reservoir Road. The Law Center campus is...
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    twice daily from Bridge and High Streets NW (now Wisconsin Avenue and M Street NW) in Georgetown by way of M Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue NW/SE to...
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  • David G. Booth (category Georgetown University people)
    Million Renovation Of Special Collection Research Center". www.georgetown.edu. Georgetown University. April 28, 2014. Retrieved March 26, 2015. Miller,...
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    established in 1787 at what is now 3513 N Street NW. The original building was originally called "Georgetown Chapel" because of the uncertainty of the...
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    possible, throughout the district starting in 1888. Georgetown's streets were renamed in 1895. Some streets are particularly noteworthy, including Pennsylvania...
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    cape (tanjung) of the city. The city is often mistakenly spelled as 'Georgetown', which was never the city's official name. This misspelling may be due...
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    Key House (category Georgetown (Washington, D.C.))
    merchant Thomas Clarke built a brick house on Bridge Street, present-day M Street NW, in Georgetown, a separate municipality of Washington, D.C., at the...
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    mean "south of downtown." The moniker was adopted in the 1990s after the renaming of the Sears building to the SODO Center (later Starbucks Center, the world...
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  • Drive/Frontage Road. Paul Huff Parkway begins at an intersection with SR 60 (Georgetown Road) in the northwestern part of the city. An extension of the road exists...
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    The history of Georgetown University spans nearly 400 years, from the early European settlement of America to the present day. Georgetown University has...
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    GO Transit began serving the station in 1974 with the creation of the Georgetown line (now Kitchener Line). A new second platform on the south side of...
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