. Book of the Royal blue . BARBARA FRIETCHIES GRAVE, FREDERICK national importance that have linked itsname with national affairs in the last onehundred and fifty years. It was in thebeginning of the f rench and Indian War of1753 that Frederick first became road which became the NationalRoad was then Braddocks Road, laid erick County made the first official protestagainst the British Stamp Act. Wash-ington, the surveyor, the colonel, the generaland the President, well knew the little villagein his thrilling journeys to the great Ohiocountry. At Frederick occurred the first meetin
. Book of the Royal blue . BARBARA FRIETCHIES GRAVE, FREDERICK national importance that have linked itsname with national affairs in the last onehundred and fifty years. It was in thebeginning of the f rench and Indian War of1753 that Frederick first became road which became the NationalRoad was then Braddocks Road, laid erick County made the first official protestagainst the British Stamp Act. Wash-ington, the surveyor, the colonel, the generaland the President, well knew the little villagein his thrilling journeys to the great Ohiocountry. At Frederick occurred the first meeting. AN OLD TAVERN IN FREDERICK out by Washington when General Braddockand the young Colonel Washington wereinterested in the Indian campaigns in West-ern Pennsylvania. Braddocks Road ledto Braddock Heights and the old springis still Braddocks Spring. GeneralBraddock went out from Frederick to FortDuquesne (Pittsburgh) in 1755 to his last between Colonel Washington and BenjaminFranklin. The old, delapidated house whichserved as his headquarters still stands, buthas little chance of remaining where it ismany more years, unless the efforts ofseveral patriotic societies to save it old house stands in a sad state of decayon West All Saints Street. The negroes THE PROPOSED LINCOLN ROAD 17 call it the * Snake House and the super-stition existing among them that it is full ofvenomous reptiles has probably saved it fromentire demolition. Alas, such is fame in the new world!But Frederick never has considered herancient and romantic history from a com-mercial or advertising point of vie
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