GEORGE TOWN GHOSTS
Foreword
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
A PORTRAIT OF OLD GEORGE TOWN
Chapter I Beginnings of a Town T
Chapter II The Original Town and Its People G
Chapter III The Taverns, Shops, and Schools W
Chapter IV The Streets of George Town and Some of the Happenings T
Chapter V Washington and L'Enfant in George Town S
Chapter VI Below Bridge Street N
Chapter VII Along Bridge (M) Street T
Chapter VIII High Street, Prospect Avenue, the College, the Convent, and the Threlkelds U
Chapter IX Along First Street (N) from Cox's Row to High Street (Wisconsin Ave.) O
Chapter X Gay (N) Street East to Rock Creek A
Chapter XI The Three Philanthropists G
Chapter XII The Seminary, Washington (30th) Street and Dumbarton Avenue N
Chapter XIII Third Street, Beall (O) Street, West (P) Street O
Chapter XIV Stoddert (Q) Street C
Chapter XV Tudor Place and Congress (31st) Street L
Chapter XVI Evermay, the Heights, and Oak Hill
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
302 . John, 89 , 302 . Sophie, 138 . Temple of Islam, 179 .
Transcriber's Notes.
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Transcriber's Notes
A PORTRAIT
OF
OLD GEORGE TOWN
A Portrait of
Old George Town
by
Grace Dunlop Ecker
Decoration
1951
THE DIETZ PRESS, INCORPORATED
Richmond, Virginia
Copyright, 1951
by
GRACE G. D. PETER
second edition
Revised and Enlarged
printed in the united states of america
Transcriber's Note: The copyright of this work has been researched and no indications were found that the U.S. copyright was renewed.
Dedicated
to the memory of
My Father and Mother
George Thomas and Emily Redin Dunlop
and
My Aunt, Ellen Dunlop
all three of whom lived long, useful
and unselfish lives
in Georgetown
