Ben Banneker not only redrew the city from scratch.............but was also involved in surveying it...........the day after he died, his house burned down in Maryland...........


Stewart, John (1899). "Early Maps and Surveyors of the City of Washington, D.C.". Records of the Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.: Columbia Historical Society) 2: 48–71. Retrieved 2011-08-15.