District of Columbia retrocession
Return of some land of the District of Columbia to Virginia
District of Columbia retrocession
District of Columbia retrocession refers to the act of returning to Virginia the land from the District of Columbia that Virginia had previously ceded to the federal government of the United States and proposals to do the same with the some or all of the land Maryland ceded. The land was originally ceded to the federal government by Virginia and Maryland in 1790 for the purpose of creating a federal district for the new national capital; the capital was moved from Philadelphia to what was then called the City of Washington in 1800. After moving through various stages of federal and state approval, the Virginia portion was retroceded in March 1847. The District of Columbia's creation was the result of the district clause of the United States Constitution. In the 1790 Residence Act, the district originally consisted of 100 square miles (259 km2; 25,900 ha) of land, which was ceded to it by Maryland and Virginia, and it straddled the Potomac River. The 1801 Organic Act placed the areas under...
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