Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-01

around the courthouse and on his
land. The men named by the assem-
bly, as trustees for the new town of
Providence were Charles Little, Will
liam Payne, Richard Bland Lee. John
Jackson. John c. Hunter. Richard
Coleman. Daniel McCarty Chichester.
Henry Gunnell, jr.; Marmaduke 3.
fer, David Stuart, William Middleton
and Richard Fitzhugh, gentlemen"
X X X X
At this point, even though it means
a slight depression from the subject
of Colchester, the Rambler wishe IS
to set forth certain facts relating to
the creation of two towns in the
neighborhood of Washington which
few WashingtonianS ever heard of
One of these towns was Matildaville.
which the Rambler has written of be-
fore. and the other was Tuberville,
which the Rambler never knew of un-
til he stumbled upon the name in
Hening's Statutes. Matildaville was
at Great Falls on the Virginia side
and ruins remind one that mills and
other buildings stood there in the
long ago. One of the old houses on
the site of the town-the Dickey
house-is believed to be survivor OF
the town of Matildaville. The act
establishing Matildaville was passed
by the Virginia legislature in Octo-
Der, 1890, and you can find it in Hen
ing's Statutes, fifteenth common
wealth. The act sets forth that forty
acres of land at the Great Falls of
the Potomac in the county of Loudoun
in the possession of Bryan Fairfax
shall be and they are hereby vested
in George Gilpin. Albert Russell. Will
liam Gunnell, Josiah Chaplain, Rich
ard Bland Lee, Levin Powell and Sam
uel Love, gentlemen, trustees, to be
by them or a majority of them laid
off into lots of half an acre each, with
convenient streets, and established as
a town by the name of Matildaville. ''
According to the terms of the act
the trustees were to proceed to sell
lots at the best terms they can pro-
cure at public auction, time and place
of sale to be advertised two months
previously in the Virginia Gazette,
and to convey the said lots to the
purchasers thereof in fee, subject to
the condition of building on each lot
dwelling house sixteen feet square
at least with a brick or stone chin
ney, to be furnished fit for habitation
within five years from the day of sale
and pay the money arising from such
sales to the proprietors of said lands
respectively or their legal representa-
tives." 1t was set forth that as soon
as the purchaser had complied with
the building regulations "such pur-
chaser shall then be entitled to have
and enjoy all the rights, privileges
and immunities which the freeholders
and inhabitants of other towns in
this state, not incorporated, hold and
enjoy"
The town Of Turberville was laid
off on the Virginia side of the river.
near Little Falls. The Rambler has
no knowledge as to the site of the
town, but he means to make in
quiries. The Virginia legislature on
December 81, 1898. enacted that
Twenty acres of land, the property
of John Turberville, lying near the
Little Falls, in the county of Fairfax,
SO soon as they shall be laid off into
lots and convenient streets, shall be
established as town by the name
of Turberville." The commissioners
and trustees named by the legislature
were Corbin Washington, James