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For the last 9,000 years, Jones Point has attracted people for many reasons, with archaeological and historical evidence showing that earlier generations used and reshaped the land as Native American seasonal hunting and fishing camps, tobacco fields, a 19th-century ropewalk, a Civil War fort, and a major industrial World War I shipyard. Of the few structures that remain, the lighthouse built in 1855-1856 is the most prominent, but the site's most important feature stands in front of it, where the south cornerstone of the original survey of Washington, D.C., marks the founding of the nation's capital city.
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Alexandria, Virginia · United States
