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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: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Snowden, William H. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway. (from old catalog) Historic buildings Historic buildings
Publisher: Alexandria, Va., Printed by G. H. Ramey & sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t now claims. OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 15 The construction of the Potomac Canal and the laying of the three several railways,the Baltimore and Ohio, with its branch to Winchester, the Midland and the Loudounand Hampshire, ended the old time wagon industries over the mountains and divertedmost of the wonted trade to other points. Here in the spring of 1755 met the Colonial Governors, Dinwiddie of Virginia,Shirley of Massachusetts, De Lancy of New York, Morris of Pennsylvania, Sharpe ofMaryland and Dobbs of North Carolina, to arrange plans for the prosecution of theFrench and Indian war on the Ohio river. This meeting of the colonial governorsmight be called the second congress in America. Tiiat of the council at Albany in1747, the first. Christ Church, built in 1767 on Washington street near to King with its unalteredpew of George Washington will bring back forcibly the plainer days when the greathero mingled so often in religious service with his neighbors and friends of old Fairfax.
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, j^ifrt«iTf jitttft MARSHALL HOUSE. The spacious rooms of the Old City Hotel on Royal street between King and Cam-eron will call up many festive scenes when the same revered personage was wont tolay aside his dignity for the time and trip gaily through the mazes of the dance, withfair women and brave men: here also, he had his headquarters when he visited Alexan-dria, and here in 1799 he gave his last military order to the Alexandria volunteers. The Marshall House on King street above Royal, will make fresh the tragic circum-stances of the killing of Col. Ellsworth of the New York Zouaves, May 24th, iS6r.That was the first blood shed in Virginia durmg the war. The following tragic ac-count of the occurrence is from the Alexandria Gazette : Probably no survivor of the Army of the Potomac visits Alexandria without inquir-ing for the Marshall House. It became famous in history in the early days of the latewar, and has so remained ever since. It was in this building that one of the bloo

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