A Portrait of Old George Town
by Grace Dunlop Peter
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About this eBook
- Author
- Peter, Grace Dunlop
- Credits
- Produced by Mark C. Orton, Louise Pattison and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F106: United States local history: Atlantic coast. Middle Atlantic States
- Subject
- Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) -- Description and travel
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 27716
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27716
- Release Date
- January 6, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A PORTRAIT OF OLD GEORGE TOWN
- 2.GEORGE TOWN GHOSTS
- 3.Foreword
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.A PORTRAIT OF OLD GEORGE TOWN
- 7.Chapter I — Beginnings of a Town
- 8.Chapter II — The Original Town and Its People
- 9.Chapter III — The Taverns, Shops, and Schools
- 10.Chapter IV — The Streets of George Town and Some of the Happenings
- 11.Chapter V — Washington and L'Enfant in George Town
- 12.Chapter VI — Below Bridge Street
- 13.Chapter VII — Along Bridge (M) Street
- 14.Chapter VIII — High Street, Prospect Avenue, the College, the Convent, and the Threlkelds
- 15.Chapter IX — Along First Street (N) from Cox's Row to High Street (Wisconsin Ave.)
- 16.Chapter X — Gay (N) Street—East to Rock Creek
- 17.Chapter XI — The Three Philanthropists
- 18.Chapter XII — The Seminary, Washington (30th) Street and Dumbarton Avenue
- 19.Chapter XIII — Third Street, Beall (O) Street, West (P) Street
- 20.Chapter XIV — Stoddert (Q) Street
- 21.Chapter XV — Tudor Place and Congress (31st) Street
- 22.Chapter XVI — Evermay, the Heights, and Oak Hill
- 23.BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 24.INDEX
- 25.Transcriber's Notes.
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