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Abingdon House, birthplace of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis

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English: Abingdon House, birthplace of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis

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Title: Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Snowden, William H. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Alexandria, Va., Printed by G. H. Ramey & son
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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10 SOME OLD HISTORIC LANDMARKS Potomac Company of 1784 of whom George Washington was the most prominentworker. Along Four Mile run which the electric road crosses, four miles from the CapitalGeneral Washington owned several hundred a< res of land, and near its head waters,where the Old Columbia pike crosses them he had mills, from which were shipped cargos /
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Abingdon House, birthplace of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis. of flour to the West Indies in the earlier Colonial times. Then, the run unvexed asnow by bridges was deep and navigable for sea going craft. On this stream was situat-ed the convalescent camp of the civil war. From Four Mile Run to Alexandria, four miles beyond, the road passes through abeautifully undulating and fertile stretch of country, which suburban improvement isinvading and gradually dotting with handsome residences. Through this stretch thecontemplated avenue or boulevard from Arlington and the Memorial Bridge to Mt.Vernon, a distance of seventeen miles, when constructed, will doubtless pass. At Spring Park Station the road strikes the Leesburg Turnpike, the Old Militaryhighway over which General Edward Braddock and most of his army of British re-gulars and provincial troopers marched in the spring of 1755 to expel the French andtheir Indian allies from the lands of the Ohio river. The regulars consisted of the 44thregiment unde

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  • bookpublisher:Alexandria__Va___Printed_by_G__H__Ramey___son
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