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Washington was essentially overseeing the planning and design of a new national capital city on a site which, with the exception of towns like Georgetown and Alexandria, was overwhelmingly farmland and uncleared woodland. Pierre L'Enfant, a major in the French army engineers, was commissioned to design the new city; and Washington, who had been a surveyor, had an overriding interest in L'Enfant's work and design. Washington never needed blue prints, per se, but he was acutely interested in seeing renderings of L'Enfant's plan for the federal city.

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