Washington, DC

Latitude: 
38.90
Longitude: 
-77.04
Region Related Areas: 
North America
GeoNames ID: 
4 140 963
Geofield: 
POINT (-77.03637 38.89511)

Signing of the American Antiquities Act

Since June 1906 the Antiquities Act gives the United States federal government the power to protect and preserve areas of public land or resources that hold cultural or historic value.

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