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WASHINGTON
THE NATION'S CAPITAL
By FRANK A. VANDERLIP
Many generations before George Washington,
as the New World Romulus, paced
off in person the metes and bounds of the Federal
City, the powerful Algonquin tribe of
American Indians had established their capital
within the confines of what is now the District
of Columbia. Powhatan, the father of Pocahontas,
conducted, with his eighty painted
chiefs, his savage councils of war, or peaceably
smoked his calumet within view of the hill destined
to become the site of the forum of the
Republic. Nacochtank, afterwards Latinized
as Anacostan by the Jesuit fathers who accompanied
Lord Baltimore to Maryland, and
now called Anacostia, a suburb of Washington,
was the precise location of Powhatan's wigwam
capital.
