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Title: Summer excursion routes and rates ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company
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Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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presented, are mountedand frown threateningly around the quaint old building. The national emblem isspread to the breeze daily, not only to indicate the spot, but to show that the patriot-ism of our fathers is still ablaze in the breasts of their descendants. To quote fromthe address of Hon. Theodore F. Randolph, on opening of this building to the pub-lic, July 4, 1875 : During the summer of 1873, this property, so long and widelyknown as the old headquarters of W^ashington, was offered for sale. A few gentle-men concluded to purchase it, and having done so, formed a society known as theWashington Society of New Jersey, the principal object of which is to perpetuatethis house with its great historic associations, and to gather within these walls solarge and interesting a museum of articles connected with the Revolutionary andother history of the Colonies, that this old mansion, rendered immortal by the nameof Washington, shall become a Mecca towards which all Americans will turn their
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WASHINGTONS H EADQrAKTERS, MOI<RISTO\VN, N. J. DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. R. 35 steps and obtain, as from a fountain, inspiration to patriotic life and purpose. Underthis roof have been gathered more characters known to the military history of thewar of the Revolution than under any other roof in America—a fact not generallyknown. Here, the elegant and brilliant Alexander Hamilton lived during the longwinter of 1779, and here he met and courted the lady he afterwards married, thedaughter of General Schuyler. Here, too, were Green, the splendid fighting Quaker,as he was, and the great artillery officer Knox, the noble La Fayette, the stern Steu-ben, the polished Kosciusko, the brave Schuyler, gallant Light Horse Harry Lee, oldIsrael Putnam, mad Anthony Wayne, and that brave soldier, but rank traitor Bene-dict Arnold. Here, too, from time to time, gathered prominent members of the Con-tinental Congress and statesmen of that day. This dwelling was also for manymonths, the

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