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A Summer Day in Washington and Georgetown Walk
Arthur A. Holmes recalls a Sunday stroll from Grant Place to Georgetown, describing LaFayette Square with its statues, historic houses linked to Hanna, Sickles, Webster, and Sumner, and memories of Mrs. Southworth, Francis Scott Key, and the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. He notes Georgetown’s older origins, landmarks, and the canal’s role in national roads history. The piece ends with a church basket meeting notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgetown
Grant Place
Pennsylvania Avenue
Indiana
Suwanee
New York
General LaFayette
LaFayette
Andrew Jackson
LaFayette Square
United States
Mark Hanna
Washington
Arlington
White House
McKinley
Hanna
Congress
Gen
Dan Sickles
Philip Barton Key
Key
Seward
Commodore Secatur
Blandensburg
Daniel Webster
Webster
W. W. Corcoran
Corcoran
Legation
Charles Sumner
Sumner
Senate
St. John’s Church
National Capital
Lincoln
England
Rochambeau
Rock Creek
M Street
George Washington
Sullivan
Metropolitan Co
John
Union
Francis Scott Key
Canal
Aed
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Cumberland
Potomac
Pittsburg
Alexandria
Republic
Washington Street
Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Wabash Avenue
Arthur A. Holmes
Washington, D. C