Identifier: someoldhistoricl03snow (find matches)
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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1828, and which grew out of the efforts of the projectors of the Potomac Company of 1784 of whom George Washington was the most prominent worker. Along Four Mile run which the electric road crosses, four miles from the Capital, General Washington owned several hundred acres of land, and near its head waters, where the Old Columbia pike crosses them he had mills, from which were shipped cargoes of flour to the West Indies in the earlier Colonial times. Then, the run unvex-ed by bridges was deep and navigable for sea going craft. On this stream was situated the convalescent camp of the civil war. From Four Mile Run to, four miles beyond, the road passes through a beautifully undulating and fertile stretch of country, which suburban improvement is invading and gradually dotting with handsome residences. Through this stretch the contemplated avenue or boulevard from Arlington and the Memorial Bridge to Mt. Vernon, a distance of seventeen miles, when constructed, will doubtless pass. ^ -^
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Abingdon House, birthplace of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis. At Spring Park Station the road strikes the Leesburg Turnpike, the Old Military highway over which General Edward Braddock and most of his army of British regulars and provincial troopers marched in the spring of 1755 to expel the French and their Indian allies from the lands of the Ohio river. The regulars consisted of the 44th regiment under Col. Peter Halket and the 48th commanded by Col. Thomas Dunbar, mustering 500 men, each with supplies and provisions and about 800 provincial troops. The Braddock road over which the gay regulars and provincials made their slow and wearisome march is still a way and a highway, holding its course to the mountains though not as then rugged with stumps of trees and boulders and shadowed by unbroken forests but graded and smoothed for easy and pleasant travel and lying through a region of farms and hamlets. OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 11 They left Alexandria, then but a straggling hamlet in the forest, the se

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