File:The New England magazine (1907) (14776439365).jpg

Identifier: newenglandmagaziv37bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors:
Subjects:
Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
e travellers of modern days who love to poke about the towns and villages of the famous eastern and western shores and reflect upon the changes that have taken place since Richard Carvel and Dolly Manners and the other beaux and belles of their set made merry neath the graceful dome of the historic State-house. Winston Churchill drew his inspiration for his successful novel while living at Annapolis as a midshipman. The golden age of Annapolis dates back to the period between1750 and 1770, when the tide of wealth and fashion and fine living reached its highest point. It was toward the close of the Revolutionary War that the Continental Congress satin Annapolis, and it was there in the Sen-ate Chamber, but recently restored that George Washington, on December 23, 1783, resigned his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. The first State-house was completed in 1697, three years after Annapolis was established as the capital of Maryland. This building was MEN AND AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON
Text Appearing After Image:
Midshipmen embarking for summer practice cruise. burned in 1704, and the second State-house, begun in the same year on the same site, was used for sixty-eight years, when it was torn down to make way for the present edifice. The hotel where Washington was often entertained is still standing, as is the house occupied by his friend Charles Carroll of Carrollton. And many private residences built in the eighteenth century are occupied today by the descendants of those who built them. What is said to be the oldest edifice in Annapolis is the venerable Treasury Building, in the shape of a Greek cross, and among the most interesting objects of more recent structure are the bronze statue of Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice of the United States from 1836 to 1864, which stands in front of the entrance to the State-house, and on the southeast side of the building the statue of Baron de Kalb. Nothwithstanding the antiquity of the houses and of many of the customs of Annapolis, the march of improvement has made

Note About Images