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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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g down in its seaward course through its setting of green slopesand plains and wooded crests gives to all the view a charm and beauty not often sur-passed. A visit to the home and tomb of the immortal chieftain is surely an event to lingerlong in the memory of every patriot. But lam reaching the limits of the typos, and so must not tarry, otherwise the storyof my outing with its round of varied pleasures and enjoyments would be a long one.To the friends who had kindly bidden and welcomed me to their hospitalities I saidgood-by, and with many regrets at parting turned homeward from the long to be re-membered scenes of Andalusia. O, homestead by the river sideWhen ruins of life are falling, Ill go in fancy to thy foldAnd hear the robin calling His sleepy mate at early dawn ;Ill watch the river flowing And see the sway of trees and flowers As winds round them are blowing,And tho, through splendid castles In foreign lands Ill roam,O, may my heart be pure and true, As in the dear old home.
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JOHN S CHURCH, BROAD CREEK, MD. 200 years old. Vom Andalusia to Mount Vernon the distance is four miles, with the intervening(ions of Herberts Spring, Snowdens, Hunters, and Riverside Park at Little Hunt- From stat OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 33 ing Creek, which make the occupants of numerous adjacent farms conveniently accessi-ble to this important line of travel. The creek divides the original River Farm ofWashingtons map from the Mansion House Farm, and one mile beyond, the road ter-minates at the gates of the Mount Vernon Mansion. BROAD CREEK- OLD CHURCH AND OLD HOUSES. Four miles below Alexandria, on the Maryland shore, and opposite to Andalusia, ohthe Virginia side, is the estuary or bay of Broad Creek. There Washington often went,as he tells us in his diary, with his friend and neighbor, Digges, of Warburton Manor,to throw his line for the finny denizens of the still waters. At the head of this bay, wherenow only the light-draught scow-boat can ascend the silt-filled channel, lar

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