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Question # 1 (Multiple Choice) Dumbarton Oaks Estate was named

  1. A) After the the land grant To Ninian Beall called the Rock of Dumbarton. See this for some background.
    B) After the Lord of Dumbarton, a Scotish nobleman of the 17the century.

Question # 2 (Multiple Choice) The land which Dumbarton Oaks Park occupies today was originally

  1. A) part of a land grant to the McClure family of Maryland by King George of England.
    B) part of a land grant to the the Calvert family by King Charles

Question # 3 (True/False) Dumbarton Oaks Park was originally part of the Dumbarton Oaks Estate.

  1. A) True
    B) False

Correct Answers

1 , 2 , 3

Question # 1 (Multiple Choice) Dumbarton Oaks Estate was named

Answer: (A) After the the land grant To Ninian Baele called the Rock of Dumbarton. See this for some background.

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Question # 2 (Multiple Choice) The land which Dumbarton Oaks Park occupies today was originally

Answer: (B) part of a land grant to the the Calvert family by King Charles

Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, was granted all the land between the Wicomico river and the Potomac called the Calverton Proprietor's Manor BACK

Question # 3 (True/False) Dumbarton Oaks Park was originally part of the Dumbarton Oaks Estate.

Answer: True

It was transferred by the Bliss family to DC Parks, then a subsidiary organization of the National Park Service, in 1940 at the same time as the Estate was transferred to Harvard University. BACK