Tidal Basin

Year

1897

Type

landscape

Originally engineered to flush sediment from the Washington Channel using tidal action from the Potomac, the 107-acre inlet evolved from infrastructure into one of America's most cherished landscapes after the 1912 planting of 3,000 Japanes …

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