https://www.mallhistory.org/files/original/b32e5a61fc3b4848e75f04b21932bd0a.jpg 4924a65dd3a6db4d5aaf62f160a88b74 Place Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.) Physical Description Text describing the appearance of the place and its situation on the Mall. The Flats were the wetlands to the west of the Washington Monument and southwest of Constitution Ave. The land was transformed into Potomac Park and the Tidal Basin Type The nature or genre of the resource Gardens and Landscapes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Potomac Flats Description An account of the resource The mud flats and marshland to the west of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a> (on the left side of this image) were called the Potomac Flats for most of the 1800s. In 1870, the Army Corps of Engineers began <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/326">dredging the Potomac</a> to remove silt and to deepen the ship channel to improve access to Washington by water. Dredged material was dumped onto the tidal flats along the Washington waterfront. The work continued until August 30, 1911, when contractors had moved over 12 million cubic yards of material from the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/424">river</a> to create East and West Potomac Parks and the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/430">Tidal Basin</a>. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Army Corps of Engineers Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c27632/">View original</a>. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1882 (reclaimed) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1860-1889 building the mall design & monuments environment