Creative History

There are purported to be miles of tunnels, and even an unused burial crypt, deep beneath the United States Capitol Building in Washington D.C..  After Congress passed something called the Residence Act in July of 1790, which decreed that an inauspicious sixty square miles, or so, of swampland on the border between Maryland and Virginia would be rechristened as the District of Columbia and chosen as the Capital city of the brand new United States of America, our founding fathers--congressmen all themselves---set to work and designed this subterranean world. Throughout history many fringe theorists have asserted that the miles of tunnels and rooms beneath our nation’s capital are somehow linked with the mysterious rites of freemasonry and other secret societies for the rich, powerful and well-to-do who hope to keep their activities hidden from the prying eyes of the American public.  But one fact about this underground world is known, and that is that when work began on the b...