Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-03-21

ereeps up to the city wharves. The AnacOstis.
Win tnirteen or fourtet n keet, in q similar m
tacted gut, sa,irIZes the superficial grandeur
with which lt joins he Potion &C, IN sking ali the
show OF amplitude that the Nacostine 1udian.
formerly did when they pressed 10 the Patomsc
and claimed TO control It's resources. Just be-
low the Junction, Off Giestoro point the chan
mel becomes broad and deep, ranging from 81
| feet TO p At che wharves of Alexandra. Thi.
circumstance accounts for the living faith vi
the AIeNandrians in the fortunes OF their town
which they hold TO be the port of Washing tOu.
The boast Is proper one, except in the matter
OF railway interference. With SUCH water We
would be thrice happy.
Before reaching Alexandra we pass Four
Mile run, on the Virginia side, celebrated for
lts perch, and Oxen run on the Maryland side
noted amongst artists as giving an exhaustive
ioea OF mary land streams,-vast drainage, sub
1ect TO Hoods rich with argillaceous cOlors, rank
with underground, good timber, aud prospects
90 distant snd so brown and soft in tone as To
a"aktn regret that such beauties are yet at
tended with steriity.
Fox Ferry, between Alexandria ana the
Maryland shore, here about one quarter of a
mile apart, was probably used as early as 100
IL was the main upper ferry between Annapolis
ana the plantations of middle Virginia. A
steamboat has been used here for many wears
out 70 settlement has ever arisen on the Mary
land SIDE The fisheries begin in their yigor
below Roster Bluff, aud the frequent yindlass
boat shed ana short pier denote them. Then
begin series OF bull necked creeks on either
", v.
Mattawoman on the Maryland side, all nearly
niltd up at the present day, but each the site OF
landing or settlement-Fort Foote, Fort Wash
lngton, Pennington and Piscataway, Chapman,s
landing and GlymOut. Close under Fort Wash
ington the channel is from 6S to 20 feet deep,
AID about the same at White House landing.
me channel continues to be about IS feet deep.
Kettle Bottom Shoals, below Pope's Creek, is
one OF the most doubtful points TO pass, with
but tweste and thirteen feet of water for much
OF the breadth OF the river. At the mouth the
~ m NUih a and, A..
OF water almost anywhere, and good water IN
the heoeomco and Cone rivers, and "a feet of
water four miles up st. Msrys river. The fol-
lowing are notable lighthouses on the Potomac:
Jones Point, 80 feet high; Fort Washington:
Smiths Point, 80 feet; Point Lookout 81 feet:
Piney Point, 35 feet high.
The Virginia shore Of the Potomac
Some running notes OF the Virginia shore will
be in order, vagariOus and here and there, a.
they Will be found
l6OI. May 10, the English settlers land at
jamestown.
1908 June Is, John Smith discovers the Pc
,omac and ascends it. The tombstone of Lieut..
VIM. Herris, who died 1905, was Iill recently
eNtant in Fairfax county, the oldest in the
United States.
/ 1e34. Catholic settlement OF MARYLAND
loio. The English in Virginia number l. 900;
me negroes, 800; horses, 300; asses, so; cattle,
sells a year came 10 trade. II 900 colonists on
the Accomac shOre.) There were u countie
and 20 churches. Fruit and grain were raised
and cider exported. This wear the Puritan,
enigrate from Virginia to Maryland, ami KIN,
Charles is beheaded.
1851. The Washington family settle on the
lower Potomac.
1C62. Captains Charles Brent, George Mason
and others Cypress the Potomac Indians under
The chief Wahaneon0che, and are fined AM
suspended from office.
1905. The Doeggs and other Potomac Indians
becoming offensive, a fort is built at Yeoho-
comico, on the lower Potomac, aud on the
Rappabannock at Corotoman, near the bay.
About 5000 Indians in all Virginia.
100. Sir William Berkley explores west from
the AppOmattON 70 the mountains. Forty thou
SAND people in Virginia, OF which 5000 were
1913. The Northern Neck granted as a court
favor to Henry Burnett, the Earl OF Arlington
and Lord Thomas Culpeper.
1913. A fort occupied at the Falls of the
Rappahannock. Stafford county established
The Susquehannocks, joining the Piscstaways
with the Doggy and other Indians massacre
along all the hesdwaters of the Potomac, Ran
pahannock and York, and descend upon the
James. Bacon's rebellion grows out of this
war and Colonel Brent marches from the Poto-
mac with 200 men TO attack the insurgent'e
army.
1851. About 1900 men capable of bearing
arms in the train bands of Virginia.
1854 1.-The burgesses in behalf OF the Northern
Neck, then called the Potomac Neck, prayed
the Governor TO secure them by patent in tdeiI
titles TO their lands, which had been invaded by
Culpeper's charter"
1855. Many persons implicated in Monmouth.
rebellion sent to Virginia "to serve their mas
tiers for the space of ten years at least"
1857. Meditated instruction OF blacks dis
covered in the Northern Neck.
1863. April: William and Mary proclaimed at
James City.
1888 Governor Nicholson POUNDS Williams
burg; William and Mary College has the frst
grand commencement in 100.
lI02 Population 10000. Many Huguenots
arrive fleeing at the revocation OF the Edict OF
Nantes. Twenty nine counties and seyenty
houses Of worship in Virginia three Quaker
and three Presbyterian. Seven years later the
Lords Baltimore abandon Roman Catholicism
l1lo. Colonel and Governor Alexander Spots
wood arrives, aged 81, a Scotch native Of Tan
gier, Africa, and an officer at Blenheim under
Marlborough, bringing to Virginia for the first
t time the right OF haoeas corpus. He settles on
estants there, and In Il IA announces the success
sion or George l., maternal grandson Of James l.
Ills. Population Of Virginia $1,000. With
Maryland, the two colonies had las 900 souls of
which $4,000 were negroes-more than oyerbal
ancing IN production all the rest Of the colonies
i716. Spotswood first discovers complete mass
over the Blue Ridge, at the head of fifty persons
at Swift Kun gap, September 16. Sees perch
club, deer, turkeys, and elk and buffalo tracks
1J2O. The Virginia frontier extended to the
Blue Ridge, and Spotsylvania, Brunswick, King
George and Hanover counties established.
1I22. September: The Five Nations bound
themselves by treaty at Albany not to 90 south
OF the Potomac nor to the east of the Allegheny
chaln without permission from the Governor OF
New York; nor were the Indians of the lower
Chesapeake to pass north of the same river and
west Of the mountains without a passport from
the Governor OF Virginia. Spotswood displaced;
the first iron maker and postmaster general il.
North America.
1882. Joist Hite, of Pennsylvania, settles near
Harper's Ferry, while Fredericksburg is a
hamlet around the estate of Colonel Willis.
founded 1921. Spotswood dies in 1870 at An
napolis. leaving progeny for the revolutionary.
army OF Washington, the greatest colonial gov
ernor for the country's good. On his son Rob
ert, slain near Cumberland, Nd, in 1I5G, a Lon
don poet wrote:
"Courageous youth were now thine honored
sire
To breathe again and rouse his wonted ire,
Nor French nor Shawnee dare his rage pro yoke
From Great Potomac's spring to Roanoke"
I134-3S The Shenandoah valley settled ut
Stsunton, Woodstock and Winchester. Orange
county established.
f740. Troops raised in the upper Potomac
country by Lawrence Washington to proceed to
the West Indies to conquer the Spanish colo
mics. The Scotch-Irish settle rapidly on Fair
fax's grant. In 174i the six nations make a
treaty at Lancaster, Pa, giving up ali the
land from Virginia to the Ohio. About this
time the last buffalo seen In our region.
1142. Fairfax county established.
l749. The Washington and Mason family and
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