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 . ot, whowill properly appreciate them and so, perhaps they shall not have been in vain. We want more facts concerning the old homesteads, the old families, the old churches, the old highways, the old manners and customs -more about the heroic sacrifices of tie- brave pioneers, the hoiand worthy fathers and mothers who set the hearth stones and the Altars along the bays and rivers andcreeks and by the mountains in the new found wastes
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 . ot, whowill properly appreciate them and so, perhaps they shall not have been in vain. We want more facts concerning the old homesteads, the old families, the old churches, the old highways, the old manners and customs -more about the heroic sacrifices of tie- brave pioneers, the hoiand worthy fathers and mothers who set the hearth stones and the Altars along the bays and rivers andcreeks and by the mountains in the new found wastes and plat of civil and religious liberty- over them all. We want to learn more about the sturdy continentalers who sprang to arms and filled upthe regiments when thing couriers brought tidings of Lexington to the plantations along the Pautuxent, thePotomac, the Rappahannock, and the fames. We want more enthusiasm in the direction of preserving andrestoring the old historic houses which are fast falling to ruins—more care to keep in order the burialplaces, to reset the falling memorial stones, restore their fading inscriptions and keep up their
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