Foggy Bottom
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Foggy Bottom is one of Washington, D.C.'s oldest 19th century neighborhood. The neighborhood is thought to have been named because, as a low-lying area, fog or industrial smoke tended to concentrate there. (Ironically, this setting was the original location for The United States Naval Observatory.) It is located to the west of downtown D.C. in the Northwest quadrant, bounded roughly by 17th Street to the east, Rock Creek Park to the west, Constitution Avenue to the south, and Pennsylvania...
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