Salt Lake Tribune | 1893-07-30 | Page 16 | Our Nation's Capital

OU buil it NATIONS CAPI CAPITAL it t iles been in fit nina ina differ orn cities and we are quite sure that if A number of boys and girls were asked to lo naino iho different capitals of our oar country coonley it alio llio or order cor would bo be sol lika tills this philadelphia new kow york and nd ton tell li Is all right as far ni as it goos goes but the truth 1 Is our counter has bas had 1 many more capitals than ahoo named it may bo be said thet during the iho revolution the iho british kept moving they would have boon ory cry glad to lo lay lauds on ibri robel eon con brn knowing which that thai body took good cro care to keep out of 0 their way inasmuch a as wherever wh crover congress conart ss went it took look tho the national capital with it ft you can readily understand why the iho following named places boro bore that honor better at the dates named nr ocl irom from Sop september 5 1771 until december 1770 1776 Balti baltimore moro front froin december Do cember 20 1776 to march 17 1777 77 philadelphia from roin march I 1 17 1777 ato to september 1777 Ln lueaster easter pa fit from froin Septem september bor 1 27 7 ia 1777 77 to september 30 1777 2777 york pa P from september 30 1777 to july joly philadelphia front from tuly july 2 1778 to joao 3 princeton I 1 14 1 J front from juno 30 1783 to Nove november lobor SO 0 1783 annapolis md idd from november 1783 to november 1781 K N J frota from november boT 1 to january I 1 1785 85 now york irom from it 11 1785 to 2700 who alion tho the or of government was ci tinged to whore it remained until ISOO nhan han it was removed to 10 washington thus it Is that nine aloe different cities mild and towns have haro figured as tho the capital ol 01 0 not country blue alad grav 1