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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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France and his twobrothers the Duke de Montpensier, and the Count de Boujealais were guests there,Volney tarried there; Lord Fairfax in his hunting excursions often crossed itsthreshold, and Nellie Custis Lewis always made it her midway stopping place inher later years after removing from Woodlawn to the valley. Near by is a family burying ground where many of the early residents of theneighborhood lie buried. While scores of the Old tavern stands which once dotted the highways leadingdown from the Shenandoah valle^v and under whose roofs the army of hardy wag-oners found entertainment for man and beast in the 3ears before the coming ofrailways, have ceased to l)e, and are now forgotten, this historic tenement still standsand is occupied, and with care uaay yet remain a landmark for another generation. Our surveyors on the following morning resumed their journey and crossed theBlue Ridge through Ashbys Gap swimming the Shenandoah and then were in the THE STORY OF THE YOUNG SURVEYORS.
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r^i^^^^Wi^- ^ SWIMMING THE SHENANDOAH. great valley of Virginia where it is about 25 miles wide, a region diver.cified by gentleswells and slopes, watered by plentiful springs and streams, and admirably adaptedto cultivation. The Blue Ridge bounds it on one side, the Xt)rth Mountain, a ridgeof the Alleghanies on the other ; while through it flows that bright and aboundingriver which on account of its surpassing beauty was named b)- the Indians Shen-andoah, that is to say the daughter of the stars. Pushing on their way, theyfound rest again at nightfall under the roof of Captain Ashby on the river justnamed, a short distance above Burwells Island at the great bend of that stream.This was another station for the ferrying and entertainment of wayfarers and theselling of supplies to traders and squatters. On Sunda\^, March the thirteenth.

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