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Andrew Ellicott, the man tasked with the planning of Washington, D.C., was lent the assistance of several talented folks. Among these was a free black man named Benjamin Banneker, who was an astronomer, author, farmer, scientist and surveyor. The tale of him being a clockmaker, however, is historically inaccurate.

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