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Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 Daughters of the American Revolution
Subjects: Historic buildings Statesmen
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
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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e romance of history.For miles the railroad cleft the lofty ridges, and, following the course of thetwisting Potomac, now beneath rocky heights, now along wooded slopes, andalways in sight of the flashing river, it bore them through a land as rich instudies for stories as were ever the Scottish Highlands, only awaiting theWalter Scott who will some day give its stirring romance to the world. Across the rushing river and through these broken hill-gaps, so UncleTom told his young people, twice did the South invade the North ; here,beside the Potomac, had young George Washington, as boy and man, passedand repassed as surveyor, as explorer, as envoy, as colonial major andcolonel, the chief instrument of Dinwiddie in his strife with the Frenchalong the Ohio, the only stay and safety of England in the tragedy foreverfamous as Bracldocks defeat. For, here at Cumberland, where they break-fasted, Uncle Tom explained, were the headquarters of the invaders of the BY THE POTOMAC 215 J. Us1 Mb* A~
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//zZtyg? THE TRAGEDY OF BRADDOCKS DEFEAT. French possessions; it was Washingtons point of departure upon the peril-ous trips in which he won alike confidence, experience, and fame. Here, too, in this hill-country, just the place for foray, feud, or siege,amid the straggling stone houses upon the heights and along the river-bank,was played, in later years, said Uncle Tom, the curtain-raiser that prefacedthe mighty strife of brother against brother, when John Brown and his men 2l6 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS stood at bay in the old engine-house here at Harpers Ferry — as dramatica situation as one of Stevensons hand-to-hand conflicts, in a country asrugged as that stern old borderers sense of duty. It was all mightily interesting. As Uncle Tom told them the story ofHarpers Ferry, the young people looked with eager eyes upon the steepand rocky heights, the winding, rushing river, the old houses on each bank,and the monument that marks the spot where Brown of Ossawatomie andhis

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