INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.– The spirit of improvement is certainly more animated than it has been in Virginia, since the check it received from the injudicious prosecution of the James River Improvement. Many important projects have been started […]
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. — The Charlestown Free Press says that “Mr. Mercer assured the convention that the canal on the Potomac would be completed to Harper’s Ferry by the 1st of December, 1829.” The Press […]
Delving into old records of early land grants, you will find that tracts of land were taken up in this section along the Potomac River just as early as those nearer the tiny village of Mecklenburg […]
Kaila February 2, 1831