In late 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a law to move the Department of Agriculture's Experimental Farm from Arlington, adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery, to its current location in Beltsville, Maryland to allow for an expansion of the military cantonment at Fort Myer.
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However, when construction of the Pentagon began in 1941, it was on the nearby site of the old Washington-Hoover Airport.
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