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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ides the original River Farm ofWashingtons map from the Mansion House Farm, and one mile beyond, the road ter-minates at the gates of the Mount Vernon Mansion. BROAD CREEK-OLD CHURCH AND OLD HOUSES. Four miles below Alexandria, on the Maryland shore, and opposite to Andalusia, onthe Virginia side, is the estuary or bay of Broad Creek. There Washington often went,as he tells us in his diary, with his friend and neighbor, Diggs, of Warburton Manor,to throw his line for the finny denizens of the still waters. At the head of this bay, wherenow only the light-draught scow boat can ascend the silt-filled channel, large schoonersused to lie at their moorings and load with cargoes of tobacco, wheat, and corn for theforeign pons. It was a busy neighborhood then, when the odd and ancient lookinghouses, which have stood through the changes of one hundred and fifty to two hundredyears were comparatively new, and the surrounding lands were fertile and producedabundantly all kinds of farm products.
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ST. JOHN S CHURCH. BROAD CREEK, MD. over 200 years old. There is much in this isolated locality to interest the curious delver into the scenesand circumstances of the olden time. The weather-beaten tenements, so dilapidatedand forlorn in appearance ; the impoverished fields and the forsaken landing-placewith never a freight nor cargo to be loaded or discharged, will murmur to him, as hethoughyuUy scans the desolation, in audible stories of how the generations of toilers 34 SOME OLD HISTORIC LANDMARKS came and went—how they fretted out lifes fitful fever, and were at last gathered fromtheir labor of successor failure to the densely populated burial-place of the settlements. The creek meanders down from the far uplands in bright rivulets, touching in itscourse the borders of many an old home whose mournful landmarks of falling tene-ment or blackened hearthstones or deserted springs are rnute but eloquent remindersof the long faded years when those now impoverished fields in their prim

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