Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-11
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road. 1t was an important thorough
fare during the civil war.
john Ware. a prominent citizen of
southern Prince Georges, told The
Star man that through stage-coach
mail service was continued over, this
road until 1858, when the mails for
southern Maryland points ware car
ried by steamboat between Washing
ton and Glymont. From Glymont the
mails and passengers We're taken by
stage to all the down-State towns and
settlements. Before the establishment
of the Washington -Glymont route the
mail stage used to leave washington
at am The first stop was at Piscata-
way and the first change OF horses was
made at Tray, which is now called
Berry. On over Mattaw oman swamp
and creek the stage coach went, MAX
ing Port Tobacco and Newport the
same day AT Newport the passengers
spent the night. AT o'clock next
morning the trip was resumed and
stops were made at Chapt1eo, Head-o1-
the-Bay and Leonardtown. Edward s.
Ware was the last contractor taking
the through mail over the post road.
The coaches were like those one sees
in the wild west shows or In museums
of antiquities There never was u
bridge over Oxon run, where this road
crossed it, but the coaches always
managed to get through. The road
became so bad during the civil war
that it became increasingly difficult to
use it and neither the District nor the
state of Maryland was doing much
road repairing in those days. About
the close of the war new road was
opened which crossed the run on
bridge higher up the valley and the
growing up in trees or being plowed
under in. fall and spring ever since.
A resident Of that section whose MEM
DRY embraces Il long period of the history
of that part of Oxon Run valley which is
within the District is Mrs. Annie Hoyle,
who lives on part of the tract of land
which her father. Thomas jenkins of
Thomas, bought in 1850. Her house, which
is the house her father built on taking
over this land, is on the highland on
which the town of Congress Heights has
grown up, but the view from its rear
sweeps over and up and down the valley.
1t is the oldest house in that part of the
District
Mrs. Hoyle told The Star man that one
of the very early residents of that neigh
borhood was a DR.. Hamilton. Part of
Congress Heights is built on the land
that was his, and his house is still stand
ing and still continues to be one of the
commodious and comfortable dwellings of
that neighborhood. The road leading to
the house was many years ago lined with
cherry trees of great size and age.
Cherry walks" as these cherry lined
ways were called, were common in the
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
These trees have all disappeared and to-
day the long private road leading to the
Hamilton house is lined with naples. The
house has had number of owners since
the Hamiltons lived in it. Among these
later owners were Theodore Mosher Pc
ter Mack and the Knox family. Arthur
a. Randall, before building Il new home
on Pennsylvania avenue extended, occu-
pied the house. -l,.-
1t was DIR. Hamilton who gave his name
to the road leading from Congress
Heights to Good Hope, road now called
Alabama avenue 1t is the road which