CONTENTS
| [vii] | ||||
| [PART ONE: PROLOGUE] | ||||
| AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE SEAPORT OF ALEXANDRIA | ||||
| [PART TWO] | ||||
| THE PRESENCE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1749-1799 | ||||
| Chapter | ||||
| 1: | William Ramsay: Romulus of Alexandria | [52] | ||
| 2: | John Carlyle and His House | [62] | ||
| 3: | The Married Houses | [71] | ||
| 4: | The Fairfaxes of Belvoir and Alexandria | [77] | ||
| 5: | The George William Fairfax House | [87] | ||
| 6: | John Gadsby and His Famous Tavern | [99] | ||
| 7: | The Michael Swope House | [112] | ||
| 8: | Dr. William Brown and His Dwelling | [119] | ||
| 9: | The Peruke Shop | [127] | ||
| 10: | Historic Christ Church | [131] | ||
| 11: | The Presbyterian Meetinghouse | [139] | ||
| 12: | Presenting The Sun Fire Company | [147] | ||
| 13: | Captain John Harper and His Houses | [156] | ||
| 14: | Dr. Elisha C. Dick and the Fawcett House | [162] | ||
| 15: | The Benjamin Dulany House | [173] | ||
| 16: | Dr. James Craik and His Dwelling | [184] | ||
| 17: | Alexandria's Old Apothecary Shop | [195] | ||
| 18: | Spring Gardens | [197] | ||
| 19: | William Fitzhugh and Robert E. Lee | [202] | ||
| 20: | George Washington's Tenements | [210] | ||
| 21: | The Georgian Cottage | [217] | ||
| 22: | The Vowell-Snowden House | [222] | ||
| 23: | The Edmund Jennings Lee House | [225] | ||
| EPILOGUE: Washington in Glory—America in Tears | [230] | |||
| [PART THREE] | ||||
| FIVE SKETCHES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | ||||
| 24: | The Yeaton-Fairfax House | [232] | ||
| 24: | The Lafayette-Lawrason-Cazenove House | [239] | ||
| 26: | Enter the Quaker Pedagogue: Benjamin Hallowell | [239] | ||
| 27: | The Alexandria Lyceum | [254] | ||
| 28: | The Sea Captain's Daughter and Her House | [259] | ||
| Acknowledgments | [263] | |||
| Chapter References | [265] | |||
| Bibliography | [272] | |||
| Index | [275] | |||