Posted Sep 13, 2019, 1:11 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: The Envy of the World
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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
Are there any examples of cities being founded specifically based on their centrality within a state that have since become major cities because of it? In and of itself it's not really a compelling reason for a city to succeed. Most cities also pre-date the modern iteration of their state anyway.
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Washington DC is a result of The Compromise of 1790.
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The Residence Act resulted in the permanent U.S. capital being located in the agrarian states of Maryland and Virginia, the demographic center of the country at the time, rather than in a metropolitan and financial center such as New York City or Philadelphia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1790
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