CONTENTS
| Page | ||
| Dedication | [v] | |
| George Town Ghosts | [vii] | |
| Foreword | [ix] | |
| Chapter | ||
| I. | Beginnings of a Town | [3] |
| II. | The Original Town and Its People | [13] |
| III. | The Taverns, Shops, and Schools | [24] |
| IV. | The Streets of George Town and Some of the Happenings | [40] |
| V. | Washington and L'Enfant in George Town | [51] |
| VI. | Below Bridge Street | [65] |
| VII. | Along Bridge (M) Street | [80] |
| VIII. | High Street, Prospect Avenue, the College, the Convent, and the Threlkelds | [104] |
| IX. | Along First Street (N) from Cox's Row to High Street (Wisconsin Ave.) | [125] |
| X. | Gay (N) Street—East to Rock Creek | [135] |
| XI. | The Three Philanthropists | [161] |
| XII. | The Seminary, Washington (30th) Street and Dumbarton Avenue | [179] |
| XIII. | Third Street, Beall (O) Street, West (P) Street | [208] |
| XIV. | Stoddert (Q) Street | [224] |
| XV. | Tudor Place and Congress (31st) Street | [261] |
| XVI. | Evermay, The Heights and Oak Hill | [281] |
| Bibliography | [311] | |
| Index | [313] | |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Early George Town | [Frontispiece] | |
| Page | ||
| Rev. James McVean | [6] | |
| Henry Foxall | [73 ] | |
| Home of Henry Foxall | [75 ] | |
| Old Presbyterian Church | [84 ] | |
| General James Maccubbin Lingan | } } } | [88] |
| Benjamin Stoddert | ||
| Uriah Forrest | ||
| William Marbury | [94] | |
| Philip Barton Key | } } | [96] |
| Mrs. Philip Barton Key (Elizabeth Plater) | ||
| Home of Francis Scott Key | [100] | |
| Francis Scott Key | [102] | |
| Benjamin Stoddert's House | [110] | |
| Home of Dr. Charles Worthington | [114] | |
| John Threlkeld | [122] | |
| Colonel John Cox | [124] | |
| Old Dr. Riley's House | [139] | |
| 3017 N Street. The House that Thomas Beall Built | [145] | |
| John Laird | } } | [147] |
| James Dunlop, Senior | ||
| Major George Peter | } } } | [152] |
| Judge James Dunlop | ||
| William Redin | ||
| Edward Magruder Linthicum | [162] | |
| William Wilson Corcoran | [164] | |
| George Peabody | [175] | |
| Miss Lydia English | [184 ] | |
| Dr. Grafton Tyler | [188] | |
| Home of Judge Henry Henley Chapman | [193] | |
| Old McKenney House | [195] | |
| St. John's Church | [198] | |
| Bodisco House | [203] | |
| Christ Church | [211] | |
| Washington Bowie | [223] | |
| The Sevier House (Built by Washington Bowie) | [225] | |
| The George T. Dunlop House | [228] | |
| Francis Dodge, Senior | [233] | |
| The Sons of Francis Dodge, 1878 | [238] | |
| William A. Gordon | [249] | |
| Dumbarton House | [255] | |
| Tudor Place | [260] | |
| Thomas Peter | [262] | |
| Mrs. Thomas Peter (Martha Parke Custis) | [264] | |
| Lloyd Beall | [278] | |
| The Old Mackall House | [285] | |
| Home of Brooke Williams | [290] | |
| Madame Bodisco | [294] | |
| Mount Hope. The William Robinson House | [296 ] | |
| The Oaks (Now Dumbarton Oaks) | } } | [300 ] |
| Montrose | ||
| William Hammond Dorsey | [302 ] | |