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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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Loudoun but two years. George IIwas on the British throne and William Pitt was prime minister. The States of Ohio,Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee were but outlying counties of Virginia inher north western territory. Gen. Braddock had been lying in his wilderness gravefive years. Benjamin Franklin, first postmaster general, was busy arranging the firstcontinental mail routes. Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington, leaders ofthe contending armies at Waterloo had not yet seen the light. Colonel GeorgeWashington twenty-eight years of age, flushed with his first military experiences onthe Ohio had just brought his bride, the widow Martha Custis, to be mistress ofMount Vernon and had yet seven years to tarry before assuming command of thecontinental army of the thirteen original provinces. Alexandria was but little morethan a straggling village of five or six hundred inhabitants. Georgetown was aninconsiderable hamlet and where now rise the domes and spires of the National
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Capital the surveyor with chain and compass was cutting his way through forests stillfrequented by remnants of the old Algonquins. Lord Fairfax was living his recluselife in the solitudes of the Shenandoah valley with only hunters, half breeds and packsof hounds for his companions, and George William Fairfax was living in his elegantmansion of Belvoir on the Potomac. Daniel Boone and his hardy followers had notleft their native sand hills of North (Carolina to begin their perilous settlements inKentucky. Then stately merchant ships came into the deep waters of the Occoquan—somefrom London, some from Glasgow, some from Amsterdam and son»e from the WestIndies. Now and then a bark careering darkly from the Bight of Bennin or the coastof Guinea furled her sails in the Colchester Haven and landed her living freights totake up their march in gangs for their allotted places of toil. Colchester was a growing and busy frontier town. Its merchants were prosperingby large trade and traffic an

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