Photos and words by @Pharipedia. Phari is one of my favorite photographers who contributes to our Instagram. He’s volunteered to share a bit more with us from his adventures around town. Phari lives on Capitol Hill.
“Just south of Old Town Alexandria, along the Potomac River, is an area called Jones Point where you will find a beautiful park with numerous playgrounds, basketball courts, picnic areas, and a decommissioned lighthouse that operated from 1855 to 1926. Not far from the lighthouse, you can see the very first boundary marker of the original District of Columbia. After President Washington’s proclamation establishing Jones Point as the starting point of the federal territory, the exact spot of the south cornerstone was chosen by Benjamin Banneker, an African-American surveyor and astronomer.”