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id: 26486
author: Gilchrist, Murray
title: The Dukeries
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summary:
  Great men were buried there, notably several chiefs of the Furnival family, who had for town residence Furnival's Inn in Holborn. He is said to be in London at his house in Lincolns in field, at the corner of queene streete, called Carlisle house or Savill house.


id: 39789
author: Hemstreet, Charles
title: Nooks & Corners of Old New York
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words: 32921
sentence: 1420
flesch: 73
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summary:
  [Sidenote: Columbia College] The two blocks included between Barclay and Murray Streets, West Broadway and Church Street, were occupied until 1857 by the buildings and grounds of Columbia College. In 1854, Park Place was opened through the grounds of the college from Church Street to West Broadway (then called College Place).


id: 21645
author: Crawford, Mary Caroline
title: The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees
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flesch: 66
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  Other houses in the village were likewise attacked, one of them being defended by seven men, for whom the women inside cast bullets while the fight was in progress. It was the same at other times with other women, most of whom were too much absorbed in their own duties to give more than a passing solicitude to this rather odd and sometimes inconvenient adorer.


id: 34873
author: Northend, Mary Harrod
title: Historic Homes of New England
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words: 58227
sentence: 2507
flesch: 70
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summary:
  As in many old houses, large rooms open on either side. This is evidenced very plainly in many old houses of that period which are found to-day in a remarkable state of preservation.


id: 11731
author: Hutchins, Cortelle
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words: 62278
sentence: 2703
flesch: 75
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title:
  Virginia: the Old Dominion As seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time

summary:
  Now, a glimpse could be had of a relic of old James Towne, the ruined church tower, deep-set among the trees. Almost with the solemn significance of a tomb above the ashes of the dead, stands the sacred pile over the buried remains of old James Towne.


id: 30747
author: Moore, Gay Montague
title: Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria
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flesch: 67
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summary:
  In Alexandria Washington took command of his first troops. The designs of Alexandria houses derived from the Old Country, and follow the type of eighteenth century architecture found in the British Isles, especially Scotland.


id: 38130
author: Williams, Harrison
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title:
  Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck

summary:
  Francis Aubrey became a large purchaser of Loudoun land soon after the Iroquois evacuation, first obtaining a grant at the mouth of Broad Run about 1725. In contrast to present-day views, he was wholly opposed to growing rye on Loudoun lands, believing that it impoverished the soil and that wheat yielded more in bushels; that rye destroyed grass and clover and injured orchards.


id: 39068
author: Faris, John T. (John Thomson)
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flesch: 70
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title:
  Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable

summary:
  She inquired as to his health, for she marked the lines which mighty cares and toils had made in his manly countenance, and she spoke much of old times and old friends, but of his glory not one word. On it is a genteel, well-furnished dwelling-house, containing six rooms, all wainscoted, chair-board high, with fine dry cellars the full length of the house, which is 56 feet; also every other building which a reasonable person could wish or desire, to wit: a handsome study, storehouse, kitchen, laundry, dairy, meat-house, spring-house, and an ice-house within the curtelage; a barn 40 by 34 feet, two granaries, two carriage houses, 20 stalls for horses, a quarter for house servants; a handsome pigeon-house, well stocked; and several other houses for slaves; a well of water (so excellent that I can drink with delight after returning from a mountain circuit), a large, fertile garden, abounding with a great variety of shrubs, herbs, and beautiful flowers, well enclosed.


id: 14742
author: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
title: Vanishing England
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flesch: 68
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summary:
  Many old houses have disappeared on account of the loyalty of their owners, who were unfortunate enough to reside within the regions harassed by the Civil War. Many old houses, happily, contain their stores of ancient furniture.


id: 37910
author: Various
title: Homes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches
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sentence: 3939
flesch: 57
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summary:
  To see great men at home is often more pleasant to the visitor than advantageous to the hero. Mr. Clay had a natural repugnance to caucuses, conventions, and the kindred contrivances whereby great men are elaborated out of very small materials, and was uniformly a candidate for Congress on his own hook, with no fence between him and his constituents.


