Courtesy of the Post’s Metro columnist Marc Fisher, today we discover that there are any number of myths about the District that seem to be communicated from generation to generation without anyone interjecting to speak truth to them. Along with the myth that Georgetown residents stopped a Metro station from being built in the neighborhood in order to keep the poor and dirty masses out, Fisher points to these interesting D.C. myths:

– Built on a swamp
– Plan reconstructed out of Banneker’s memory after L’Enfant was fired
– Plan copied after Versailles
– Circles and avenues for military purposes/crowd control
– No J Street to slight John Jay or Thomas Jefferson

There are more myths and truths to be had in the comments section, including one involving a condom on the Washington Monument and one musing on a supposed carving of Robert E. Lee’s head behind Lincoln’s right ear at the Lincoln Memorial.

Any myths you’d like to share?