. Book of the Royal blue . and Irish emigrants as far back as1663, there is strong evidence to show thatthe red men did not have a more favoritehunting ground than in the vicinity ofRock Creek Cemetery and the Soldiers*Home at Washington, D. C. These Indianslet\ no mounds, no pottery, no carvings, nocuriously worked jewelry, by which to traceand locate their towns or do not say that either of the boards cover heart-pine logs, liewu withsome kind of edged tool from trees of thenative forest. In a few places the weather-boarding has been ripped off, exposing thelogs, whi
. Book of the Royal blue . and Irish emigrants as far back as1663, there is strong evidence to show thatthe red men did not have a more favoritehunting ground than in the vicinity ofRock Creek Cemetery and the Soldiers*Home at Washington, D. C. These Indianslet\ no mounds, no pottery, no carvings, nocuriously worked jewelry, by which to traceand locate their towns or do not say that either of the boards cover heart-pine logs, liewu withsome kind of edged tool from trees of thenative forest. In a few places the weather-boarding has been ripped off, exposing thelogs, which are in almost a ])erfect state ofpreservation, although placed there morethan two centuries ago; the house beingknown as Lanhams Tavern when JohnBradford bought and gave the 100 acresadjoining for St. Pauls Parish and RockCreek Cemetery. The house then, as now,was immediately on the public road leadingto Baltimore by way of Bladensburg, thoughthe road was not traveled as much as wasthe i)ike or stage road which entered. FliONT VIEW OF LANHAMS TAVERN. are classed as arts by the Bureau of Etli-nology. These Indians did, however, findtime from their sun and corn dances on thePow-tow-mack— the river of the meetingof the tribes—to build houses of logs inwhich to live, and did not dwell altogetherin caves and wigwams as did many of theother Indians. Almost immediately opposite Eagle(iate of Soldiers Home there stands to-day a small house—unoccupied for morethan half a century—a portion of which isthe handiwork of one of the tribes whichonce roamed unmolested the lands ui>onwhich the National Cajntal is built. Tothe passer-by the little house appears simplyas an old weather-boarded building, but anexamination will reveal the fact that the Washington at what is now FifteenthStreet Northeast. In those days Royal Blue trains werenot dreamed of, and travelers to Baltimoreand Philadelphia were only too glad toi-each taverns where they could get liquid refreshments
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