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Identifier: historictownsofsou00powe (find matches)
Title: Historic towns of the Southern States
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Powell, Lyman P. (Lyman Pierson), b. 1866
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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■-•■^22v^53!9P;5i^irr THE PEQQY STEWART HOUSE. Stewart Day, now, in Maryland, and some ofus like to remember that Peggy, too, was oncethe mistress of a breakfast-room which wasideal. At the foot of Duke-of-Gloucester Street, in1760, John Ridout built for himself and his chil-
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THE BURNING OF THE PEGGY STEWART. FROM THE PAINTJNG BY FRANK B. MAYER. 65 ■66 Annapolis dren three houses that are Hke a castle ; andjust across, hidden by the beautiful St. MarysChurch, lies Carrollton, the home of CharlesCarroll.^ It is occupied now by the Redemp-torist priests, and the profane shoe of a womancan gain for its owner no nearer view than thatto be had from the bridge that spans the water-way below. It looks a very charming place,built in the Dutch rather than the Georgiantaste : gray, small windows, high-roofed, andset in a garden which is what all Annapolisgardens are, and what all gardens everywhereought to be, an ordered wilderness of hollies,box, magnolias, roses, lilacs, more roses andyet more lilacs, jessamine, wallflowers, iris,lilies, violets, daffodils,—all the old-fashionedflowers which ever were and ever will be thedearest and sweetest flowers in the world. It is hard to come back even to the firstdays of the century just closing. The defence Of all the

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