item: #1 of 11 id: 11731 author: Hutchins, Cortelle 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 date: None words: 62278 flesch: 75 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. keywords: acres; afternoon; ago; air; america; ancestral; anchor; anchorage; ancient; away; bank; beach; beautiful; beauty; beginning; bell; bend; benjamin; berkeley; best; better; big; birds; bit; bits; black; bloom; blue; bluff; boats; book; bow; box; brandon; break; brick; bridge; broken; brown; building; byrd; cabin; capital; captain; carter; catch; central; centuries; century; change; channel; chapter; charles; charming; chart; chief; children; chimney; chippoak; chuckatuck; church; city; close; cockpit; colonel; colonial; colonial days; colonial river; colonists; colony; coming; commodore; corner; corotoman; council; country; course; court; courtyard; cove; craft; creek; crossed; cypress; dark; daughter; day; days; dead; deal; deck; deep; dial; dining; dinner; distance; dog; door; doubtless; douthat; drawing; early; edge; edward; eighteenth; elizabeth; end; engines; england; english; entrance; eppes; estate; evelyn; evening; eyes; face; fact; family; far; farther; feet; field; figures; find; fine; fire; fireplaces; fishing; fleur; fog; following; food; forest; fort; forward; foundations; gadabout; galley; garden; gasoline; general; generations; george; glow; going; gold; good; government; governor; gown; grant; graveyard; great; green; grove; half; hall; hand; handsome; harbour; hard; harrison; head; headed; heart; heavy; henry; herring; hidden; high; hill; historic; history; hold; holly; home; homestead; hospitality; hour; house; houseboat; houseboating; illustration; important; indian; interest; iron; island; isthmus; james; james river; james towne; john; justice; keeping; kitchen; kittewan; lady; landing; landward; large; late; lay; lee; left; life; lights; like; lines; little; little creek; little old; little way; living; london; long; looking; lord; lost; love; low; mahogany; mail; mainland; making; man; manor; mansion; map; marked; marriage; marsh; marshall; marshes; matter; member; men; middle; midst; miles; mind; miss; mistress; modern; moment; morning; mouth; mrs; narrow; nature; nautica; near; neighbours; new; noted; old; old church; old colonial; old court; old family; old garden; old home; old house; old james; old manor; old plantation; old river; old shirley; old village; oldest; ones; open; opening; owner; ownership; pale; passing; past; people; picture; picturesque; pieces; pier; pilings; place; plantation; planters; pocahontas; point; portrait; powhatan; present; pretty; progress; proud; quaint; quarters; queer; quiet; randolph; ready; real; records; red; reeds; remains; richmond; right; river; riverward; road; roadway; rolfe; romance; roof; room; rose; round; ruins; run; sailor; saw; scene; schooner; sea; season; seat; service; set; setting; settlement; settlers; seventeenth; shadow; ship; shirley; shore; silver; sir; site; sky; small; smith; society; soft; soil; sort; sounding; spirit; spot; spring; square; stairway; standing; stands; start; steamer; stern; stirring; stone; stop; story; straight; strange; strangers; stream; strong; struggle; summer; sun; sunshine; supplies; sure; sweet; table; tall; tell; things; thomas; thought; tide; time; tobacco; tomb; touch; tower; towne; trees; trouble; true; turn; united; unknown; upper; vessel; view; village; virginia; visit; visitor; voyage; walk; walls; war; warm; washington; water; waterway; way; ways; weather; westover; weyanoke; wharf; wheel; white; wide; wife; wild; wilderness; william; wind; windows; wings; winter; woman; woodland; woods; work; world; worn; wrong; yards; years; young cache: 11731.txt plain text: 11731.txt item: #2 of 11 id: 12006 author: Havell, E. B. (Ernest Binfield) title: A Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood date: None words: 28643 flesch: 67 summary: OTHER BUILDINGS AND TOMBS AT OR NEAR AGRA Akbar--Akbar's Connection with Agra--IV. keywords: a.d; abul; account; afghan; age; agra; agra fort; agra palace; akbar; apartments; arcades; architecture; archæological; art; artists; audience; aurangzîb; babar; bagh; bai; bank; baths; beautiful; beauty; beds; bernier; bharatpur; birbal; books; british; building; burj; celebrated; central; centre; chamber; character; chief; city; close; colour; connection; construction; corner; country; court; courtyard; darwaza; date; daughter; daulah; days; death; decoration; delhi; design; distance; doubt; dîwan; early; east; eastern; elephant; emperor; empire; enclosure; end; entrance; exquisite; fair; faith; famous; fatehpur; father; favourite; fazl; feet; fergusson; fine; flower; followers; fort; fountain; fresco; gallery; garden; gate; gateway; general; god; gold; government; governor; great; ground; half; hall; hand; high; hindu; hindustan; historical; history; horses; house; humayun; imperial; india; inlaid; inner; inscription; interesting; interior; itmâd; jahangir; jodh; jâmi; jâts; khan; khas; kind; king; kingdom; ladies; lahore; large; left; life; little; long; lord; love; magnificent; mahal; majesty; marble; mariam; masjid; mausoleum; means; memoirs; men; miles; minister; modern; mogul; monuments; mosque; mother; muhammadan; mumtaz; mûti; native; near; new; nobles; north; number; numerous; nur; old; opposite; original; outside; painting; palace; passage; pavilion; people; period; persian; places; plan; plate; platform; point; present; prime; prince; princess; principal; private; proportions; public; quadrangle; rajah; ram; red; reign; religion; religious; remains; right; river; road; roof; room; royal; saint; salîm; samman; seat; service; set; shah; shah jahan; sheikh; shere; sides; sikandra; sikri; silver; small; son; south; splendid; staircase; state; stone; storied; story; style; suraj; taj; taste; temple; throne; time; tomb; tradition; trees; view; walls; water; west; white; wife; wives; work; world; years; zanana; zâmâni cache: 12006.txt plain text: 12006.txt item: #3 of 11 id: 14742 author: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson) title: Vanishing England date: None words: 107559 flesch: 68 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. keywords: a.d; abbey; abbot; abingdon; accommodation; account; acres; act; action; additions; adjoining; admirable; aged; aid; almshouses; altar; american; ancestors; ancient; angel; angle; antiquaries; antiquary; antiquity; archbishop; arches; architecture; archã; armour; arms; art; artist; associations; attack; attention; attractive; authority; avon; aylesbury; banbury; bank; bare; bartholomew; base; bath; battle; bay; beams; bear; beauties; beautiful; beautiful old; beauty; beginning; bell; beneath; berkshire; best; better; bishop; black; blue; boards; body; books; borough; bradford; brass; brasses; brick; bridge; british; broken; builder; building; bull; burford; burgh; burial; burning; business; busy; bygone; canals; canons; canterbury; care; careful; cars; carved; carving; castle; cathedral; cause; central; centre; centuries; century; century house; certain; chalfont; chambers; chancel; change; chapel; chapter; 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preserved; preserving; prince; principal; priory; private; progress; projecting; property; prosperous; protection; public; pulpit; punishments; purpose; quaint; quaint old; quarter; queen; quiet; railways; rain; ranton; rare; reading; reason; rebels; recent; record; recorded; rector; reformation; regard; region; registers; reign; relics; religious; remaining; remains; remarkable; remote; renaissance; repair; report; residence; restoration; rev; richard; rival; river; road; robert; roman; rood; roof; roofing; room; rose; round; rows; royal; rude; ruins; rule; rural; ruskin; rye; sacred; sad; safe; salisbury; sanctuary; sand; saw; saxon; scenery; scenes; school; screen; sculptured; sea; seat; second; secure; service; set; seventeenth; shakespeare; shelter; shingle; shore; shows; shrewsbury; sides; siege; sign; silver; similar; simple; sir; site; sixteenth; skill; small; smithfield; society; soldiers; somerset; south; space; specimen; splendid; spoliation; spot; square; staircase; stalls; standing; stately; states; steep; steps; stocks; stone; stop; storeys; stories; storms; stow; strange; stream; street; strong; structure; study; style; subject; suffolk; sunday; supply; surrey; sussex; sword; table; task; taste; taunton; tavern; tell; temp; terrible; thame; thatched; things; thirteenth; thomas; thought; threatened; timber; timbered; time; tombs; tower; town; town hall; townsfolk; traces; trade; tradition; travel; travellers; treasures; trees; true; trust; tudor; unique; upper; useful; usual; vain; valley; valuable; value; vandalism; vanished; vanishing; variety; vast; venerable; vessels; vicar; view; viii; village; visit; visitors; volume; walk; walled; walls; wars; warwick; watch; waves; way; wayside; wealth; weather; welsh; west; western; whipping; white; wide; wife; wild; william; windows; women; wonder; wonderful; wondrous; wood; wooden; work; world; worthy; wretch; writer; wrought; yarmouth; years; years old; york; yorkshire; young cache: 14742.txt plain text: 14742.txt item: #4 of 11 id: 21645 author: Crawford, Mary Caroline title: The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees date: None words: 53930 flesch: 66 summary: 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. keywords: able; academy; account; adams; affection; afternoon; afterward; agnes; ago; american; ancient; antoinette; april; army; arrival; aunt; ball; baroness; baronet; battle; beautiful; beauty; berkeley; bermuda; best; big; bit; body; books; boston; boy; bray; british; brook; brown; bucket; building; business; caleb; cambridge; canada; captain; captive; career; cause; century; certain; channing; character; charge; charles; charlestown; charming; chief; children; china; chinese; christ; church; circumstances; city; close; co.; coat; college; colonel; colony; coming; common; community; company; concord; connection; continental; corey; corner; cotton; country; course; court; dana; dark; date; daughter; day; days; dead; dean; dear; death; deborah; dedham; deep; deerfield; description; determined; dining; distinguished; doctor; door; dorothy; downey; drake; dunbarton; duty; dwelling; early; east; education; elizabeth; emerson; enemy; england; english; entrance; estate; evelina; evening; evidence; example; eyes; face; fact; fairbanks; fales; family; famous; farm; father; fay; fay house; feet; fields; fine; fire; floor; following; footnote; foreign; fortune; frankland; french; friend; fuller; furniture; gage; gannett; garden; general; gentleman; george; girl; god; good; government; governor; grave; great; green; ground; group; guests; hair; half; hall; hampshire; hancock; hand; happy; harry; harvard; haverhill; hawthorne; heart; henry; hero; higginson; high; hill; historical; history; home; hopkinton; hour; house; husband; hutchinson; illustration; indian; influence; inn; interesting; ireland; isaac; island; james; john; journal; journey; judge; kind; king; ladies; lady; lafayette; large; later; leading; lee; left; length; letter; lexington; life; like; lisbon; little; living; london; long; longfellow; lord; love; madam; maid; major; man; manner; manse; mansion; marblehead; march; margaret; marie; marked; marriage; married; martha; mary; mass; massachusetts; matter; means; medford; meeting; member; memory; men; middlesex; miles; mind; minister; miss; modern; moment; money; months; morning; morse; mother; mrs; nature; near; necessary; new; newport; night; north; noted; number; occasion; occupied; october; odd; officer; old; old house; opportunity; order; original; ossoli; page; pair; parlour; paul; pay; people; pepperell; percival; person; personal; philadelphia; philosopher; picture; picturesque; place; pleasant; poem; poet; point; poor; portrait; possession; present; president; private; professor; property; public; quaint; queen; radcliffe; ready; regard; remarkable; remembered; residence; respect; return; revere; reverend; revolution; riedesel; ripley; river; road; robert; romance; romantic; roof; room; royall; royall house; said; salem; samuel; savage; school; scott; sea; second; secret; self; service; shanghai; ship; short; sir; sisters; small; social; society; soldier; spite; spot; standing; stands; stark; stella; stories; story; strange; street; strong; summer; sure; surriage; swan; swift; thing; thomas; thought; time; town; trees; trial; troops; true; truth; united; vanessa; vessel; view; village; visit; visitors; wall; ward; warren; washington; way; wentworth; west; white; whittier; wife; williams; windows; winter; witch; witchcraft; woman; work; world; writes; writing; years; york; young; youth cache: 21645.txt plain text: 21645.txt item: #5 of 11 id: 26486 author: Gilchrist, Murray title: The Dukeries date: None words: 14029 flesch: 66 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. keywords: abbey; account; acres; air; ancient; appearance; arabella; author; avenue; beautiful; beauty; beech; bess; best; bilhagh; birkland; building; celebrated; century; chamber; chapel; charles; chief; child; church; clumber; country; court; crown; daughter; day; days; death; district; duchess; duke; dukeries; earl; edwinstowe; eighteenth; elizabeth; end; england; english; family; famous; feet; fine; finest; fire; flowers; folk; forest; friar; garden; gateway; george; good; graceful; great; greater; green; hall; handsome; hardwick; henry; high; history; hood; house; illustration; interest; interesting; john; king; kingston; known; lady; lake; large; later; leaves; left; library; life; like; little; london; long; lord; love; magnificent; man; manor; marriage; married; mary; melancholy; men; merry; miles; mother; naught; near; neighbourhood; newcastle; nottingham; oak; old; ollerton; opening; order; original; oxford; park; person; pictures; piece; place; pleasant; portion; portland; portraits; present; priory; quaint; queen; red; relic; remains; rich; road; robert; robin; robin hood; room; royal; rufford; said; scots; second; sherwood; shrewsbury; sir; sister; site; son; state; stone; stuart; thoresby; time; town; treasures; trees; tuck; view; village; walk; walls; walpole; way; welbeck; wife; william; woman; wonders; worksop; world; wortley; writer; years; young; | | cache: 26486.txt plain text: 26486.txt item: #6 of 11 id: 30747 author: Moore, Gay Montague title: Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria date: None words: 83395 flesch: 67 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. keywords: academy; account; acre; active; activities; adam; addition; adjoining; advertisement; affairs; aforesaid; afternoon; age; agent; agreeable; alexander; alexandria; alexandria gazette; alexandria library; alley; american; ancient; andrew; ann; apothecary; appearance; april; architect; architecture; archives; arms; army; asaph; assembly; associated; association; attended; auction; august; augustine; ball; bank; bearing; beautiful; beauty; beginning; belle; belvoir; benjamin; best; bill; black; blue; board; body; book; boston; box; boy; braddock; brick; brick house; british; broken; brother; brown; builder; building; burgesses; burke; business; cameron; capital; captain; carlyle; carlyle house; cary; cause; cazenove; center; century; certain; chair; chapter; charles; chief; children; chimney; china; christ; church; 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vernon; vessels; virginia; visit; visitor; vols; vowell; wall; war; warehouse; washington; washington street; way; west; wharf; wharves; wheat; white; wide; widow; wife; william; william brown; william fairfax; william lee; william ramsay; williamsburg; wilson; windows; winter; wise; woman; woodwork; work; world; worship; writings; years; yeaton; york; young cache: 30747.txt plain text: 30747.txt item: #7 of 11 id: 34873 author: Northend, Mary Harrod title: Historic Homes of New England date: None words: 58227 flesch: 70 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. keywords: account; acres; adams house; addition; affairs; age; american; ancestor; andover; anne; apartment; architects; architecture; arms; army; attic; balusters; beautiful; beauty; bed; benjamin; best; bonnie; books; boston; brass; brick; bride; british; brook; brother; building; cambridge; captain; carving; center; central; century; chairs; chamber; chapter; character; charles; charm; children; chimney; china; chippendale; church; city; close; collection; college; colonel; colonial; colonial house; colony; columns; company; congress; connected; construction; continental; corner; country; court; craigie; dalton house; daniel; date; daughter; day; days; death; deep; derby; design; desk; different; dignified; dignity; dining; distinguished; doctor; door; dorothy; drawing; dummer; dutch; early; east; elaborate; elizabeth; england; english; entire; entrance; essex; estate; examples; exception; extensive; exterior; fact; families; family; famous; farm; fashioned; father; feature; feet; fine; fine old; finished; fireplace; floor; flowers; frame; franklin; french; friend; furnishing; furniture; gables; garden; general; generations; george; gilman house; glass; gold; good; governor; grandfather; grant; gray; great; grounds; guests; half; hall; hallway; hampshire; hancock; hand; harbor; harvard; hawthorne; height; henry; hepplewhite; hepzibah; hey; high; hill; hillsboro; hinges; historic; history; home; homestead; hooper; hospitality; house; hung; idea; illustration; important; indians; ingersoll; inside; interesting; interior; iron; jeremiah; john; joseph; judge; kitchen; kittredge house; known; ladd; lady; lafayette; landing; large; large house; later; law; lee; lee house; left; letters; library; lieutenant; life; like; lindens; line; little; living; long; longfellow house; love; macphaedris; madam; mahogany; main; main house; major; making; manner; mansion; mansion house; mantel; marblehead; marriage; married; martha; mary; massachusetts; master; mcintire; medford; meeting; member; men; merchant; middleton house; military; miss; money; morris; mother; mrs; narrow; nathaniel; near; new; newbury; newburyport; nicholas; north; notable; noted; oak; office; old; old house; olden; oliver house; ones; open; opening; opposite; original; outside; owner; panelling; paper; parker; parlor; party; pattern; peabody; people; perfect; period; pickering; pickering house; pictures; picturesque; pieces; pierce house; pilasters; pine; plain; plate; political; popular; porch; portrait; portsmouth; position; possession; post; present; preserved; president; prominent; property; province; public; quaint; quarters; quincy; rare; read; rear; records; regiment; relics; residence; return; revolution; revolutionary; rich; richard; right; river; road; robert; rogers house; roof; room; royall house; salem; saltonstall house; samuel; savory house; sea; second; secret; servants; service; sewall; sheraton; ships; showing; shows; silver; simple; sir; situated; slaves; small; society; son; sons; south; spacious; specimens; spencer; square; staircase; stairs; standing; stands; stark; states; steps; stone; stories; story; street; study; style; table; thomas; tiles; time; timothy; town; tracy; tradition; trees; troops; type; unusual; upper; valuable; value; vassall; vessels; views; visitor; walls; warner house; washington; wealth; wentworth house; west; white; wide; wife; william; windows; wonderful; wonderful old; wood; wooden; woodwork; work; world; years; young cache: 34873.txt plain text: 34873.txt item: #8 of 11 id: 37910 author: Various title: Homes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches date: None words: 124636 flesch: 57 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. keywords: abilities; ability; absence; accomplished; account; accustomed; acquaintance; acquainted; acres; action; active; acts; adams; address; administration; admirable; admiration; adoption; advanced; advantages; advice; affairs; affection; affectionate; age; american; ames; amiable; ample; ancient; animated; anxious; appearance; april; argument; arms; army; ashland; assembly; attempt; attention; august; authority; authors; banks; bar; battle; bear; beautiful; beauty; benefit; berlin; best; better; bill; biographer; birth; body; books; born; bosom; boston; bowdoin; boy; braintree; brilliant; britain; british; brother; building; burr; business; calhoun; calm; cambridge; capacity; care; career; cases; cast; cause; celebrated; century; 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struggle; students; studies; study; style; subject; substantial; success; successful; summer; sun; superior; support; supreme; sympathy; system; table; talents; taste; temper; tender; terms; testimony; thing; thomas; thought; time; town; tranquillity; treaty; trees; triumph; troops; true; trust; truth; uncle; understanding; union; united; universal; university; useful; usual; valuable; variety; vast; venerable; vernon; view; vigor; village; virginia; virtues; visit; voice; volume; walk; want; war; warm; washington; water; way; ways; webster; week; west; wheaton; white; wide; wife; william; windows; winter; wirt; wisdom; wise; wish; witness; women; wood; words; work; world; worthy; writer; writing; years; york; young; younger; youthful; zeal cache: 37910.txt plain text: 37910.txt item: #9 of 11 id: 38130 author: Williams, Harrison title: Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck date: None words: 93614 flesch: 57 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. keywords: 104; 12th; 17th; 1st; 2nd; 4th; 6th; 8th; 9th; able; account; acres; act; active; activities; adams; advantage; aeneas; affairs; age; aldie; alexander; alexandria; american; appearance; april; armies; arms; army; arnold; arrival; arthur; artillery; assembly; assistance; attack; attitude; aubrey; august; authority; available; backwoods; bad; balch; ball; bank; baron; battalion; battle; bay; beautiful; beginning; benjamin; berkeley; best; better; binns; bishop; blue; bluff; body; book; boundaries; boundary; braddock; branch; brick; brigade; brigadier; british; brother; brown; building; bull; burgess; burr; bushels; business; cameron; campaign; campbell; captain; carolina; carter; catoctin; cause; cavalry; century; certain; champe; chapel; chapter; character; 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pleasant; point; political; poor; popular; population; portion; portrait; position; possession; possible; potomac; pounds; powell; power; prepared; present; present loudoun; president; prince; principal; prior; prisoners; private; project; prominent; property; proprietary; public; purchase; purpose; pursuit; pvt; quakers; railroad; raleigh; rangers; rappahannock; raspberry; recorded; records; regiment; religious; remains; remembered; report; representatives; residence; result; return; rev; revolution; richard; richmond; ridge; river; road; robert; rockland; rocks; route; rule; run; russell; rust; safety; said; said county; saint; sale; samuel; save; scotch; scotland; seat; secession; second; secretary; selma; september; seq; sergeant; servants; service; settlement; settlers; shelburne; shenandoah; sheriff; short; sir; situation; slaves; small; smith; snickers; snickersville; social; society; soil; soldiers; sons; south; southern; spotswood; spring; staff; states; stevens; stock; stone; street; strong; stuart; success; successful; sugar; sunday; survey; susquehannocks; system; taylor; terms; territory; thomas; thomson; thos; tidewater; time; title; tobacco; today; town; trade; tradition; transportation; travel; treaty; tribes; troops; true; truro; trustees; turnpike; union; united; unknown; upper; valley; vast; vestal; vestry; vii; village; virginia; volume; war; washington; waterford; way; west; wheat; white; widow; wife; wilderness; william; william county; williamson; winchester; winter; women; woods; work; world; wounded; xii; years; york; young; younger cache: 38130.txt plain text: 38130.txt item: #10 of 11 id: 39068 author: Faris, John T. (John Thomson) title: Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable date: None words: 108249 flesch: 70 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. keywords: able; abraham; account; acres; action; active; adams; airy; alamo; albany; alexander; alexandria; american; ancient; annapolis; appeal; appearance; april; arlington; arms; army; ashland; assembly; attack; attempt; 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safety; said; samuel; san; saugus; saw; saying; scene; school; schuyler; scott; seat; second; september; servants; service; settlement; settlers; shepherd; shot; siege; sir; sister; site; sixteen; slaves; small; society; soldiers; son; sons; south; south church; springfield; square; stands; state house; stately; states; steeple; stephen; steps; stone; stories; story; street; structure; students; study; style; successful; sum; summer; sunday; support; surprise; tavern; tayloe; tea; tell; tennent; territory; texas; thick; things; thomas; thought; time; title; tower; town; town house; treaty; trees; troops; true; tyler; united; university; vain; valley; vernon; vestry; victory; view; village; vincennes; virginia; visitors; voice; wallace; walls; war; washington; washington house; way; wayne; weeks; welcome; wentworth; wentworth house; west; western; westover; white house; whitley; whittier; wide; widow; wife; william; williamsburg; wilson; windows; wings; winter; wish; women; wonderful; wood; words; work; world; worship; years; years old; yonkers; york; yorktown; young cache: 39068.txt plain text: 39068.txt item: #11 of 11 id: 39789 author: Hemstreet, Charles title: Nooks & Corners of Old New York date: None words: 32921 flesch: 73 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). keywords: aaron; act; alexander; alley; american; amsterdam; astor; avenue; bank; battery; beaver; bleecker; bleecker street; block; body; bouwerie; bowery; brick; bridge; british; broad street; broadway; building; burr; burying; business; canal street; captain; celebrated; cemetery; centre; century; chambers street; chapel; charles; charlotte; chatham; chelsea; cherry street; church; churchyard; city; city hall; clinton; close; college; columbia; company; congregation; cooper; corner; country; cut; days; death; duane; dutch; early; east; eighth street; eleventh; end; english; entrance; estate; family; farm; federal; feet; field; fifteenth street; fifth; fire; foot; fort; fourth; fourth street; franklin; garden; general; george; governor; graveyard; great; greenwich; greenwich street; ground; half; hall; hamilton; head; henry; high; hill; holland; home; hospital; hotel; house; houston; hudson; illustration; inscription; institution; island; jacob; james; john; john street; july; lafayette; lancey; land; lane; large; left; library; life; line; little; locality; long; low; madison; madison street; manhattan; marble; market; memory; middle; monument; murray; nassau street; new; new york; ninth; north; northwest; office; old; opera; opposite; original; park; paul; pearl street; persons; peter; pitt; place; plan; point; pond; portion; post; potter; presbyterian; present; president; prison; property; public; queen; rebuilt; reformed; refuge; remains; revolution; river; road; room; row; school; second; second street; section; september; set; settlement; seventh; seventh street; sidenote; site; sixth; sixth street; slip; small; society; south; southampton; space; spot; spring; spring street; square; stands; state street; statue; stewart; stone; stream; street; street bank; street church; structure; stuyvesant; tablet; tavern; temple; tenth street; theatre; thomas; time; tomb; town; trees; trinity; union; vauxhall; village; wall street; warren; washington; water; west; william; william street; work; years; york cache: 39789.txt plain text: 39789.txt