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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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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, large schoonersused to lie at their moorings and load with cargoes of tobacco, wheat, and corn for theforeign ports. It was a busy neighborhood then, when the odd and ancient lookinghouses, which have stood through the changes of one hundred and fifty to two hundredyears, were comparatively new, and the surrounding lands were fertile and producedabundantly all kinds of farm products.
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OLD HOUSE AT BROAD CREEK, MD. 200 years old. There is much in this isolated locality to interest the curious delver into the scenesand circumstances of the olden time. The weather-beaten tenements, so dilapidatedand forlorn in appearance ; the impoverished fields and the forsaken landing-placewith never a freight nor cargo to be loaded or discharged, will murmur to him, as hethoughtfully scans the desolation, in audible stories of how the generations of toilerscame and went—how they fretted out lifes fitful fever, and were at last gathered fromtheir labor of success or failure to the densely populated burial-place of the settlement. More than two hundred years ago an Episcopal church was organized here by thefirst dwellers. The parish was at first known as Piscataway, afterwards King Georges,and the Church of St. Johns. The first house of worship was of logs and built in 16-94, rebuilt with bricks in 1722, and enlarged to its present dimensions in 176-5. JohnAddison, William Hatton,

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