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Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s pictorial guide to Washington and environs ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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this River RoUtC.service (capacity 1,500 passengers) with all modern conveniences. Thesteamer leaves Seventh Street wharf daily (Sunday excepted), 10 a. m. and 2.30 p. m.,summer schedule (May 30 to November 1); 10 a. m. and 1.45 p.m., winter schedule(November 1 to May 30). Fare, round trip, 50 cents. Tickets, sold to cover transporta-tion and admission to the grounds, 75 cents. During the summer season pleasant dayand evening trips via this steamer to historic Marshall Hall, opposite Mount Vernon, etc. The Potomac River trip is one of great enjoyment on a fine day. As the steamermoves out into the stream, it rides in a broad tidal channel dredged for harbor pur-poses by the Government and kept full by a tidal reservoir above. The long artificialisland which separates this harbor from the river itself will hereafter become a park.On the city shore, immediately below the wharves, appears the pleasant parade ofWashington Barracks, or The Arsenal, as it is still more commonly called — a
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11 CHRIST CHURCH, ALEXANDRIA. 162 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTON. military post on the peninsula between the Potomac and its eastern branch. Its landentrance is at the foot of Four-and-one-half Street, and is reached by electric carsfrom Pennsylvania Avenue via Seventh Street. A trifling settlement styled Carrolls-burg, with an earthen breast-high battery, existed on the extremityWashlng^ton of this point, which was called Turkey Buzzard or Greenleaf s PointBarracks. when the city was laid out; and in 1803 the peninsula was reservedfor military purposes as far as T Street, S. W. What few buildings werethere in 1814 were destroyed by the British, who lost a large number of men by drop-ping a *port-fire into a dry well where a great quantity of navy powder had beenhidden, thus producing an impromptu volcano. In 1826 the northern end of thereservation, as far back as U Street, denoted by the jog in the river wall on the Poto-mac side, was walled ofi as a site for a district penitentiary.

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