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Title: The story of Washington, the National Capital
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Todd, Charles Burr, 1849-
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: New York London : G.P. Putnam's Sons : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ria is six miles below Washington, and isreached hourly by steam-ferry. It was founded in1748 under the name of Bellhaven, and soon cameto prominence and wealth as the shipping-port ofVirginia planters. It is to-day a quaint city of somefifteen thousand inhabitants, in which the buildingsand manners of the colonial era may still be studied.Christ Church, which was dedicated in 1765, and ofwhich Washington was a vestryman, is an object ofinterest to visitors. Georgetown, on the Marylandshore, six miles above Alexandria, was similarly theshipping port of the Maryland planters. It formsnow a part of the capital city, being known officiallyas West Washington. It is still practically a suburb,however, its shaded drives and fine old country-seatsset in the midst of spacious lawns, being very attrac-tive to visitors. On a rugged height overlooking thePotomac stands Georgetown College, the earliesteducational institution of the Catholic Church inAmerica. It was founded by Bishop John Carroll,
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352 THE STORY OF WASHINGTON, in 1789, and was incorporated as a university in 1815,with collegiate, law, and medical departments. Below it the Aqueduct Bridge, built to carry theChesapeake and Ohio canal across the Potomac, sup-ports a broad, smooth highway which, after leavingthe bridge, winds away over the brow of the Virginiahills and brings one, in the course of a mile and ahalf, to beautiful and picturesque Arlington. Beforethe war it was the property of the famous Confeder-ate leader, Robert E. Lee. The large classic columns that support the loftyportico of the mansion are a prominent feature ofthe landscape viewed from the Capitol or fromGeorgetown, and the view from the portico itself,which comprises the broad sweep of the river andthe beautiful capital city beyond, is one of the finestin the world. General Lee came into possession ofthe estate from having married Mary, the onlydaughter of its owner, George Washington ParkeCustis, the adopted son of General Washington.His fami

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