District streets that border states create jurisdictional confusion
By Karen Tanner Allen
Special to The Washington Post Saturday, May 29, 2010
Many locals don't know exactly where the District ends and Maryland begins. Even some who live along the border aren't sure.
Several months after he moved into a bungalow on Eastern Avenue in Takoma Park in 1978, Ray Altevogt was surprised to discover that part of his ostensibly Maryland-side sidewalk lies in the District. A gas line serving his house was replaced, and then the sidewalk needed repair, too.
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