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The Nation’s First Acre: Fort Billingsport and the Birth of Federal Land Acquisition
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The Nation’s First Acre: Fort Billingsport and the Birth of Federal Land Acquisition
On June 25, 1776, nine days before the Continental Congress would adopt the Declaration of Independence, the Pennsylvania Council of Safety passed a resolution authorizing a committee to “purchase the whole or part of a Plantation at Billingsport on which said Fortifications are to be erected at the Expense of Congress.”[1] Ten days later, on […] The post The Nation’s First Acre: Fort Billingsport and the Birth of Federal Land Acquisition appear…
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