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| PART ONE: PROLOGUE | | |
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE
SEAPORT OF ALEXANDRIA | | |
| PART TWO | | |
| THE PRESENCE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1749-1799 | | |
| Chapter | | |
| 1: | William Ramsay: Romulus of Alexandria | 52 |
| 2: | John Carlyle and His House | 62 |
| 3: | The Married Houses | 71 |
| 4: | The Fairfaxes of Belvoir and Alexandria | 77 |
| 5: | The George William Fairfax House | 87 |
| 6: | John Gadsby and His Famous Tavern | 99 |
| 7: | The Michael Swope House | 112 |
| 8: | Dr. William Brown and His Dwelling | 119 |
| 9: | The Peruke Shop | 127 |
| 10: | Historic Christ Church | 131 |
| 11: | The Presbyterian Meetinghouse | 139 |
| 12: | Presenting The Sun Fire Company | 147 |
| 13: | Captain John Harper and His Houses | 156 |
| 14: | Dr. Elisha C. Dick and the Fawcett House | 162 |
| 15: | The Benjamin Dulany House | 173 |
| 16: | Dr. James Craik and His Dwelling | 184 |
| 17: | Alexandria's Old Apothecary Shop | 195 |
| 18: | Spring Gardens | 197 |
| 19: | William Fitzhugh and Robert E. Lee | 202 |
| 20: | George Washington's Tenements | 210 |
| 21: | The Georgian Cottage | 217 |
| 22: | The Vowell-Snowden House | 222 |
| 23: | The Edmund Jennings Lee House | 225 |
| EPILOGUE: Washington in Glory—America in Tears | 230 |
| PART THREE | | |
| FIVE SKETCHES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | | |
| 24: | The Yeaton-Fairfax House | 232 |
| 24: | The Lafayette-Lawrason-Cazenove House | 239 |
| 26: | Enter the Quaker Pedagogue: Benjamin Hallowell | 239 |
| 27: | The Alexandria Lyceum | 254 |
| 28: | The Sea Captain's Daughter and Her House | 259 |
| Acknowledgments | 263 |
| Chapter References | 265 |
| Bibliography | 272 |
| Index | 275 |
