Clinton — Clinton Map Poster

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Clinton Map Poster

Clinton sits in Prince George's County, Maryland, a few miles south-east of the District line. From above, it reads as a patchwork of subdivisions: looping residential streets, short cul-de-sacs and green lots, all hanging off a few long arterial roads. Branch Avenue runs through it on a firm north–south line, and the rest of the plan arranges itself around that road.

The place has an older identity beneath the suburban pattern. Until the late nineteenth century it was called Surrattsville, after the tavern run by the Surratt family. That building, now the Surratt House Museum, is known for its link to the conspiracy behind Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865. It is a rare trace of the crossroads settlement that came before the modern suburb.

A Clinton map poster shows that layering well. Stream valleys and wooded buffers break up the housing tracts in irregular shapes. The large open ground of Joint Base Andrews sits just to the north-east, and the finer street grain of the Washington suburbs presses in from the north. On paper, the eye moves easily between dense and open areas.