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Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence, J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t and had a large foreign trade. The Virginia planters shippedgreat quantities of tobacco and flour from its wharves, and receivedsupplies for their plantations. Its warehouses, most of which arenow empty and dilapidated, were then filled with goods, and for atime it was an important commercial rival of Baltimore. So thriftyand enterprising was the town, so promising seemed its future, that itwas even proposed to locate the national capital in it. But the prom-ise of its youth was never fulfilled, and to-day it is chiefly notable forwhat might have been. The city lies on the sides of a range of hills, and is in the centreof a fertile agricultural district. It has nearly fifteen thousand inhab-itants, one-third of whom are colored. The city hall is in a finebuilding used in part as a public market, and there are a number oflarge business structures. An object of interest is Christ EpiscopalChurch, erected in 1765, which was attended by General Washington,who was a member of its vestry.
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> o 0- o 25oa3a> DO CHAPTER XIX. MOUNT VERNON — PRESENT APPEARANCE OF THE VENERATED HOME OFGEORGE WASHINGTON — THE GROUNDS AND MANSION — WASHINGTONSTOMB —THE CHAMBER IN WHICH HE DIED —APARTMENTS OF THE MANSION— THE FIRST PRESIDENTS LIFE ON HIS VIRGINIA PLANTATION — HOW THEMOUNT VERNON ASSOCIATION ACQUIRED THE HISTORIC PROPERTY. WHILE the homes of most of the illustrious men whofounded the American Republic have been suffered todecay, and finally to disappear from the earth, the homeof George Washington has been fortunately preserved.That home to which he brought his lovely bride in the blithesomedays of youth—those days of pleasant company, of country merry-makings, of riding to hounds and the sports of the field, of sweetdomestic bliss ; that home whence he departed to fight the battles forhis countrys freedom and independence, and to which he returnedcrowned with more than the laurels of Miltiades; that home whenceagain he departed to guide the Ship of State on

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