Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . e river had been assigned to him by the proprietor as a gift in per-petuity and here he came about the year 1736 to establish a home which in timewas to become prominent and famed in the new worlds annals. To this spot where weare gathered by these gnarled oaks and where the heaps of blackened hearthstones re-main a silent but melancholy witness to the past, duly repaired the builders and erect- OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 93 ed a mans
Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . e river had been assigned to him by the proprietor as a gift in per-petuity and here he came about the year 1736 to establish a home which in timewas to become prominent and famed in the new worlds annals. To this spot where weare gathered by these gnarled oaks and where the heaps of blackened hearthstones re-main a silent but melancholy witness to the past, duly repaired the builders and erect- OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 93 ed a mansion ; and surely no more desirable site could have been selected for a restingplace in many a day of travel. It is high, regular and commanding and the landscapesof the majestic river with its abrupt or gently sloping shores alternating with farm clear-ings and woodlands never fail to please the eye of the beholder, and most appropriatelyit was named Belvoir (beautiful to see). But an additional reason for so naming it waspleasant associations of Belvoir castle one of the most prominent of the old English cas-tles, and one of the finest of the present The manorial residence which William Fairfax built was one of ample dimensionsand appointments for that early time. Washington in on« of his diaries incidentallytells us that it was built of bricks, was of two stories and an atti<: with four conven-ient rooms and a wide hall on the lower floor, five rooms and a wide passage on thesecond floor, with spacious cellars and convenient offices, kitchens, quarters for ser-vants, coacherie. stables and all other out-buildings needed on a great estate.; and that 94 BOME OLD HISTORIC LANDMARKS there was a large garden adjacent, stored with a great variety of fruits all in goodcondition. The writer visited the ruins of the home in the spring of 1S94 and traced out, andmeasured the foundations, and found them to be of the following dimensions: thefoundations of the main building, si
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