Benjamin Banneker Circle

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Looking north at Banneker Park, Circle and Overlook in 1990, with L'Enfant Plaza behind it and the National Mall in the background.

Benjamin Banneker Circle is a partial traffic circle in Southwest Washington, D.C.. The name of the circle commemorates Benjamin Banneker, an African American astronomer and almanac author. In 1791, Banneker assisted in the initial survey of the boundaries of the District of Columbia.^[1]^[2] The circle is near the south end of L'Enfant Promenade and the intersection of Interstate 395 and Maine Avenue. Benjamin Banneker Park is within the Circle.

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v t e Streets and highways of Washington, D.C.

Numbered Streets	7th Street 14th Street 16th Street 18th Street

Lettered Streets	H Street K Street M Street P Street U Street

State-named roadways	Connecticut Florida Georgia Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire New York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia Wisconsin

Border avenues and streets	Capitol Streets North East South Border Avenues Western Eastern Southern

Other streets	Benning Road Columbia Road Constitution Avenue Embassy Row Independence Avenue Jackson Place Klingle Road Madison Place Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue

Circles	Anna J. Cooper Barney Benjamin Banneker Chevy Chase Columbus Dupont Garfield Grant Logan Observatory Peace Pinehurst Randle Scott Sheridan Sherman Tenley Thomas Ward Washington Westmoreland

Squares	Farragut Franklin Freedom Plaza Lafayette Lincoln McPherson Mount Vernon Seward Stanton Union

Freeways	Anacostia DC 295 I-295 Capital Beltway (I-495) E Street Potomac River (I-66) Southeast (I-695) Southwest (I-395) Whitehurst (US 29)

Parkways	Clara Barton George Washington Memorial Oxon Run Rock Creek & Potomac Suitland

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