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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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-m^ dar com mars washngton. run chil an open de gate. OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLANDWASHINGTONS BARN. Washington had an inventive as well as a systematic and thorough turn of mind, andwas always devising some new and better method for the lessening of the labors of thehands on his estate. He greatly improved many of the unwieldly implements then inuse, such, as ploughs, harrows, hoes, and axes; for he had carpenter, smith, and smithyalways at hand to materialize his ideas.
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,W:)M„ WASHINGTON S SIXTEEN-SIDED BARN. His circular, or sixteen-sided barn of brick and frame, sixty feet in diameterand two stories high, was the wonder of his neighbors. The threshing or treading outfloor, ten feet wide was in the second story, all round the centre mows; and the oxen orhorses were taken up to it by an inclined plane. The floor of it was of open slats, thatthe grains might, without the straw, fall through to the floor below. Later, he hadconstructed, a device, worked by horse power, by which the heads of wheat sheaves,held on a table against rapidly revolving arms, were beaten out : this was probably thefirst step, after the hoof and flail, towards the power-thresher of the present day. WASHINGTONS COACH. Made in England, 17S9. The body and wheels were of cream color, then veryfashionable, with gilt relief, and the body was suspended upon the old-fashionedheavy leathern straps, like those of the former day stage coaches. Part of the sidesand front were shaded by g

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