. The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR . harpsburg thetrain crosses the Potomac Potomac ! Linked forever in the historic chain that binds our Re-public to the past! Only a mile below the railroad cross-ing is the Old Pack-Horse Ford,where 150 years ago the Catawba andSusquehannock braves engaged in a ter-rible battle. There also, in 1775, tneSouthern Minute Men crossed the riverto join Washington at Boston. Le
. The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR . harpsburg thetrain crosses the Potomac Potomac ! Linked forever in the historic chain that binds our Re-public to the past! Only a mile below the railroad cross-ing is the Old Pack-Horse Ford,where 150 years ago the Catawba andSusquehannock braves engaged in a ter-rible battle. There also, in 1775, tneSouthern Minute Men crossed the riverto join Washington at Boston. Leecrossed at this ford to the battle of An-tietam, and recrossed when the battlehad been fought. Just above the ford isthe rocky precipice over which 3,000men, among them many of the CornExchange Regiment, of Philadelphia,rushed to their death. How changed is all nature since warsalarums ceased. Peacefully the sunshines over quiet farms and dreamywoodland. Herds graze in the meadows,contented people throng the villagestreets, prosperity has again united theland. The violets grow where the can-non shot made furrows ; the swallowsskim the placid waters ; All quiet along the Potomac ! GEORGIA SUMMER THE SOLDIERS MONUMENT, ANTIETAM. SHEPHERDSTOWNdates back to 1734, when Thomas Shep-herd selected its romantic site for a settle-ment, and gave it his own name. In the river at this place James Rum-say, in 1787, exhibited the steamboat hehad invented twenty-five years beforeFultons experiment on the of departed genius — supposeyou could see what is on the Hudsonand the Potomac to-day ! At Shenandoah Junction, the Baltimoreand Ohio Railroad crossed our track,and there we got an addition to our party of sightseers. A pleasant old gentlemanfrom Baltimore told us that Major-General Drake, a descendant of one ofthe judges of Charles I., and a Revolu-tionary hero, had his palatial abodeabout a mile from the Junction. Alsothat Horatio Gates, Charles Lee andAdam Stephen
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