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Title: Seaport in Virginia
George Washington's Alexandria

Author: Gay Montague Moore

Release Date: December 23, 2009 [eBook #30747]

Language: English

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SEAPORT IN VIRGINIA

[Illustration: GEORGE WASHINGTON

By Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick. A painting in oil after a pastel by James
Sharples. (_Courtesy Mount Vernon Ladies' Association_)]

SEAPORT IN VIRGINIA

George Washington's Alexandria

by

GAY MONTAGUE MOORE

[Illustration]

Drawings by Worth Bailey

Photographs by Walter Wilcox

The University Press of Virginia
Charlottesville

The University Press of Virginia

Copyright (C) 1949 by The Rector and the Visitors of
the University of Virginia

Second printing 1972

ISBN: 0-8139-0183-9
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-188711

Printed in the United States of America

TO MY HUSBAND

CHARLES BEATTY MOORE

TOGETHER WE HAVE DELVED INTO WHAT RECORDS
WE COULD FIND THAT MIGHT THROW UPON THE
SCREEN SOME SHADOW OF THOSE WHO BUILT
AND LIVED IN THE OLD HOUSES IN
ALEXANDRIA

[Illustration]

PREFACE

Twenty years ago on a hot and sultry July afternoon, my husband and I
started to Mount Vernon to spend the day. On our return to Washington,
we lazily drove thro