. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers; . ous lots on the higherground, belonging to Dade, West and the Alexanders, afterwhich it improved rapidly, so that at the close of the Eight-eenth or beginning of the Nineteenth Century its populationwas ten thousand, and its commerce greater than it now promising was it at the close of the war, that its claimswere weighed in the balance with those of Washington asthe seat of National Government. It is thought that, butfor the unwillingness of Washington to seem partial toVirginia, Alexandria would have been the ch
. Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers; . ous lots on the higherground, belonging to Dade, West and the Alexanders, afterwhich it improved rapidly, so that at the close of the Eight-eenth or beginning of the Nineteenth Century its populationwas ten thousand, and its commerce greater than it now promising was it at the close of the war, that its claimswere weighed in the balance with those of Washington asthe seat of National Government. It is thought that, butfor the unwillingness of Washington to seem partial toVirginia, Alexandria would have been the chosen spot, andthat on the first range of hills overlooking the town thepublic buildings would have been erected. Whether therehad been any public worship or church at Alexandria pre-vious to this enlargement of it, and the great impulse thusgiven to it, does not appear from the vestry-book, though itis believed that there was. But soon after this, in the year1764, Fairfax parish is established, and measures taken forthe promotion of the Church in this place. The vestry-. OLD CHRIST CHURCH, ALEXANDRIA, VA. CHRIST CHURCH, ALEXANDRIA 269 book commences in 1765. At one time there were twochurches in the new parish of Fairfax—one at the Falls,called, as the present one is Little Falls Church ; the posi-tion of the other—the Lower Church—is not known. Itmay have been an old one at Alexandria. Among the first acts of the vestry was the repairing ofthe two old churches in the parish, at a cost of more thanthirty-two thousand pounds of tobacco. In the year 1766,it is determined to build two new churches,—one at theLittle Falls, very near the old one, and one in Alexandria,to contain twenty-four hundred square feet and to be high-pitched so as to admit of galleries. Mr. James Wrennagrees to build the former, and Mr. James Parsons theother, for about six hundred pounds each. A most par-ticular contract is made for them. The mortar is to havetwo-thirds of lime and one of sand,—th
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