. Historic towns of the Southern States. THE OLD REFORMED CHURCH. and Mrs. Ross. As they had not yet arisen,the General pencilled a line of greeting andfarewell, with military precision noting thehour, 5;^ , and remounting his horse underthe great silver-poplar rode down Mill Alley, a 96 Frederick Town narrow lane which crosses Carroll Creek ])y aford and a high foot-bridge, and so on to thePike, or Patrick Street, where he rejoined his command, andled them west-ward. A few hundredyards to the eastof Mill Alley,and a^rain acrossa winding ofCarroll Creek,lived a very oldand intenselyloyal w
. Historic towns of the Southern States. THE OLD REFORMED CHURCH. and Mrs. Ross. As they had not yet arisen,the General pencilled a line of greeting andfarewell, with military precision noting thehour, 5;^ , and remounting his horse underthe great silver-poplar rode down Mill Alley, a 96 Frederick Town narrow lane which crosses Carroll Creek ])y aford and a high foot-bridge, and so on to thePike, or Patrick Street, where he rejoined his command, andled them west-ward. A few hundredyards to the eastof Mill Alley,and a^rain acrossa winding ofCarroll Creek,lived a very oldand intenselyloyal woman,Barbara Fri-tchie,whowas nomyth, but a fig-ure familiar t oFrederick fromtime immemo-Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on De-. BARBARA FRITCHIE. rial. cember 3, 1766, she had come, as BarbaraHauer, to Frederick so many years beforethat on the occasion of the visit of GeneralWashington in 1791 and a ball given in hishonor, she loaned some of her choice china Frederick Town 97 to adorn the table, and his Excellency dranka cup of tea poured from her yet carefullycherished teapot. She and her husband, JohnFritchie, a glover, had long lived in a smallhouse adjoining the creek which was demol-
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