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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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O X = £ K sion such as I never enjoyed before,—a rest which had no circumstances to disturb norshadow to mar. This place Elysian is reached by the Mount Vernon Electric Railway. From Arc-turus Station, midway between Alexandria and the home of Washington, you wind bya hard, smooth avenue along green fields, and through orchards laden with ripe and OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 29 ripening fruitage, till you are in the shadows of a hundred stately oaks and walnuts,many of them of a centurys growth. Herein the midst of these leafy sentinels is ahome which in all its surroundings and influences, more nearly than any other, fills upthe measure of my ideal dreamings. Andalusia is distant from the travelled highways, and before the coming of the elec-tric car was a terra incognita, with rarely a visitor, save of the surrounding neighborhood
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to invade its quiet borders. The passengers from the deck of the passing steamer de-scried it in the distance, showing like a gem in its setting of river and cool embower-ing trees, but it was onlya glimpse of hidden beauties to be remembered and cherishedor forgotten. Now, by rapid and easy transit many pilgrims find their way thither,although it is but a private home. Little picnic parties from the cities adjacent, throughthe courtesy of the proprietor, hie there through the summer days to spread their repastsunder the shadowing boughs, and make merry on the inviting green sward. Artists 30 SOME OLD HISTORIC LANDMARKS come to sketch the delightful and varied views of its environs, the cycler to wheel overthe smooth avenues, the angler to throw his line into the still river nooks, and thewearied, like myself, to seek the balm of rest. In this ideal home by the Potomac I found a welcome and a hospitality which re-called the many stories I had read, of entertainments in Virginia homes

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