From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >bryan_styble  wrote:   
      
   >>Hey Adam:   
      
   >>Regarding this America's seat-of-government history:   
      
   >>As someone who at least occasionally paid attention in middle school   
   >>history class, I knew about Philadelphia AND New York prior to The   
   >>District of Columbia being carved out of both Maryland AND Viriginia.   
   >>And also, of course, how those Virginia sectors of D.C. were   
   >>reclaimed/returned/expelled to the Commonwealth as part of that doggone   
   >>Civil War which disrupted more than a few institutions during the 1860s.   
   >> But indeed I WAS ignorant of these several other temporary sites you   
   >>cite stretching back through colonial times.   
      
   >>BUT:  When I was driving north through York, Pennsylvania during 2000   
   >>enroute to Maine from Georgia and the Carolinas back in 2000, I remember   
   >>learning from a local there how obscure little York, Pa. was ALSO for a   
   >>while where some legislative body or other was situated for awhile, a   
   >>little before (or perhaps a little after, or even during?) The   
   >>Revolutionary War.  I don't believe it was The Continental Congress, but   
   >>it might have been connected somehow.   
      
   >I've never seen a complete list of other cities that were used as   
   >temporary capitals aside from New York. If I come across more   
   >information, I'll post a followup.   
      
   >>. . .   
      
   I found a list.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_in_the_United_States   
      
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