. Historic towns of the Southern States. THE HATED BRITISH TAX-STAMP, WASHINGTONTHE NATIONS CAPITAL By frank a. VANDERLIP MANY generations before George Washing-ton, as the New World Romulus, pacedoff in person the metes and bounds of the Fed-eral City, the powerful Algonquin tribe ofAmerican Indians had established their capitalwithin the confines of what is now the Districtof Columbia. Powhatan, the father of Poca-hontas, conducted, with his eighty paintedchiefs, his savage councils of war, or peaceablysmoked his calumet within view of the hill des-tined to become the site of the
. Historic towns of the Southern States. THE HATED BRITISH TAX-STAMP, WASHINGTONTHE NATIONS CAPITAL By frank a. VANDERLIP MANY generations before George Washing-ton, as the New World Romulus, pacedoff in person the metes and bounds of the Fed-eral City, the powerful Algonquin tribe ofAmerican Indians had established their capitalwithin the confines of what is now the Districtof Columbia. Powhatan, the father of Poca-hontas, conducted, with his eighty paintedchiefs, his savage councils of war, or peaceablysmoked his calumet within view of the hill des-tined to become the site of the forum of theRepublic. Nacochtank, afterwards Latinizedas Anacostan by the Jesuit fathers who ac-companied Lord Baltimore to Maryland, andnow called Anacostia, a suburb of Washington,was the precise location of Powhatans wigwamcapital. I02 Washington The first white man to approach the seat ofgovernment of these barbarian warriors wasCaptain John Smith, who sailed up the Pat-awomeke in 1608. The famous adventureronly partially explored the country, the princi-pal item in the l
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