Map of Washington's Correspondence

Where Washington and his correspondents were, by month, 1771–1783
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Overlapping places merge into clusters: scroll or pinch to zoom in and split them apart. Drag across the chart to scrub by month · hover a bar for its count.

Each bubble is a place someone wrote to Washington from, sized by the number of letters that month. The portrait marks where Washington himself was that month.

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