Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-26

acres into a town bearing his name on
the point on the Anacostia river. or East
crn branch, east of st. James creek.
There were over 80 lots plated i'll
squares by the laying out OF thirteen
streets under Henry Rozer. Daniel Car
roll and Motley Young, trustees. w no were |
empow cred to dispose of the lots ny lot |
terry. Charles Carroll of Carrollton. GoN.
Johnson. Coils. William Fitzhugh, thigh |
man and Crawford, the Digges, Ring |
gold. Slater, Davidson. Hepburn. Collard
Orutt and other prominent families thus
became lot owners, and ere the govern |
rncnt was permanently located there was
an effort made to bring trade here.
Shipping Interests Noted.
There is some evidence of shipping in
notices of English papers of vessels hav- |
ing cleared for 1.-The port of CAROLS
burg but, Notwithstanding the depth of
water near the shore, little commercial
prosperity followed and the rural condi- |
tons have not entirely disappeared.
The squares noted, between n. Q. LIST
street east and Canal street west. or |
James creek, were along the northern
border of Carrollsburg. and some of the
original owners under the lottery drawing |
held the ground when il was apportioned. |
That square. 59S, consisting of twelve |
lots on n. 0, Canal and list streets west, |
in 1894 was apportioned. one-half to the
government. the remainder to Robert |
Brown, John Davidson. Daniel and
Thomas Jenifer, Richard Tilghman, Dick
and Stuart and Ignatius Digges. In 1893
j. H. Nicholson bought lot 3, corner of
I'd and o streets. and two years later
Eliza Luce had the north lot of the
square. The ground was then listed at
3 cents. In after years Catharine Con- |
nell and Charles Glover owned some of
the lots, and for nearly forty years the
Ia Ia "a
deprecated to half cent per foot The
explanation is that the ground bordering
James creek was low and marshy and
later became a portion OF "penitentiary
marsh then better known to gunners
than to real estate operators Capt. |
Thomas Corcoran, at that time engaged |
in the brick business. bought the govern
ment lots
Apportioned in 1894.
The square east, So, Of twenty lots,
facing Half LIST. n and Q streets south
west. was apportioned in 1894. In March |
of that year S. Coolidge obtained GER
tificate of the commissioners for lot 1. !
corner Of Half and o streets, and for lots
264 and 237, Carrollsbure and at the same
time he sold this lot and lot 4, square
6OS on I'd street between and l. streets, |
for $266.86 and sold lot l. square $50, to
Robert Darnell In this year the partition |
vas made with the proprietors, the gov
eminent retaining title to lots t. s to 10. Is
to II and 10. and In exchange for CAROLS
burg lots Charles Carroll, IT., S. Coolidge, |
Motley Young, J. Hepburn and f. Spriggs, |
Digges and David Crawford were given
city lots.
In 1900 John Darnell owned lot II. cor
nsr of \ and 1st streets, and sold it to
Motley Maddox. In 1911 Catherine Con-
nell owned part of H. and in 1915 lots IS,
70. > and passed by tax title to William
Emack, Adam Lindsay. John Hoye and
James MCCORMACK, respectively. Up tof
this time thes:: cents per foot rate for
taxation was decreasing, and for years
one cent was the figure, and in 1899 three |
fourths Of cent. In 1916 John EmIner
son owned part of lot II. which two years
1910 Adam Lindsay owned lot 12 and j. |
A. Smith lot T. the latter in 1898 going to
John Hove, and the same year e. Kelly |
owned lot is.
Col. Washington Buys Lots.
In square 6I2 Col. William Augustine |
Washington, nephew OF the President, be-
came interested. the lot at the corner of
\ and Half streets being included In his
purchase in November, 1891. of eight Car
rollsburg lots from Thomas Ringgold of
Kent county. Md, for E122 los. The
square embraced nineteen lots. facing east |
and west, between N, o. Half and South
Capitol streets. and under the partition in
17a4 the government retained title to nine |
lots, six on Half street and three on
South Capitol street. The others We're
vested as follows: No L. in DIR. w. Scott;
No =, Daniel Carroll. commissioner; No.
3, DIR. John Stuart; No 10. Col. Wash
ington; Nos. II and II, Motley Young; No.
Is, Elizabeth Laidlaw; No. II. Ralph Fos-
ter; No. IS. Mary Young and Elizabeth
Carroll. and No: ~. Thomas johnson.
Shortly after this Peter Cazanave, the
son in-law of Motley Young. George
town merchant, owned lot 10. In 1885 lot
10 passed to A. Gouger and in 1889 Eliza
beth Carroll owned lots II and 1S. A.
Densley bought lot 16 in 1900 and F.. De
Bloch lot ~. In 1901 Thomas Herty
bought of James Thompson one-half of
lot IL. N. Young was In possession Of lot
12 the next year, and F. Delius owned lot
10 in 1907.
Taxed at Low Rate.
Three cents was the corporation value
of the ground which fell to cent and
below and by 1915 a number of lots
passed by tax title for as low as 50 cents
per lot In 1915 z. Farrell owned lot 2
and II. Buford lot 3. In 1923 J. Pear
son and others owned lot II, and Count
Dement, in 1899 had lot 10 in his name.
Nicholas Callen. jr.. bought lot IL In
ward. and in 1888 lot 8 went to John
Hoye and lot IL. through r. j. Brent ct
al, passed to John Farley.
Square 7Oo of twenty lots on South
Capitol and Half streets east between \
and Q streets was divided in 1874. the
government taking title to lots to and
II to Is and for lots 241, $40, go. 112, Ito.
oo7 and 40 of Carrollsburg- The title TO
lot / was vested in Barnes & Redgate, >
in Anne Torrin, 3 i'll Thomas Richardson
& Co, 10 In Stephen Moyland. II in D.
Carroll. commissioner; 10 in James Hol-
laday and % in James Mewburn In 1875
Mr. HnI DIV for
lot; in 1897 lot % went to II. and J. APP
pleton and In 1900 James Stranger had
lot and r. Moon lot .. p. Sim owned
lot H.. corner OF Half and n streets, i'm
1895, and Charles Warden, r. Cherry and
Thomas Young owned parts of the same
a little later. In 1910 Samuel y. Small