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  • Seat
    description, called Washington Square, which has numerous trees, with commodious seats placed beneath their shade.’ (Ibid. [D. M. &c.] vol. ii. p. 48.)
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  • Lemon Hill
    1856. James C. Sidney and Andrew Adams, Plan of Fairmount-Park, in Description of Plan for the Improvement of Fairmount Park, 1859. John C. Sinclair, Entrance
    56 KB (7,302 words) - 14:17, September 1, 2021
  • Plot/Plat
    side.” [Fig. 5] back up to History Washington, George, 1785, describing Mount Vernon, plantation of George Washington, Fairfax County, VA (Jackson and Twohig
    54 KB (7,369 words) - 13:09, March 16, 2021
  • Walk
    Laying Out the Public Grounds at Washington, 1851. Benjamin Franklin Smith, Jr., Washington, D.C. with projected improvements, c. 1852. Sarony & Major, Iranistan
    146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
  • Lawn
    The Home of Washington, c. 1861. Anonymous, Perry Hall, Home of Harry Dorsey Gough, n.d. Alexander Jackson Davis, Montgomery Place, n.d. Anonymous, Fairhill
    108 KB (14,954 words) - 15:38, August 13, 2021
  • Bower
    ” Smith, Margaret Bayard, 1811, describing Sidney, summer retreat of Margaret Bayard Smith, near Washington, DC (1906: 88) “When Mr. Tracy, (who was an
    29 KB (3,841 words) - 13:35, March 29, 2021
  • Piazza
    Cottages, Farm-houses, and Villas (New York: D. Appleton, 1850; repr., New York: Da Capo, 1968), view on Zotero. C. C. Jones, A Georgian at Princeton, ed. Robert
    57 KB (7,617 words) - 13:34, April 1, 2021
  • Noah Webster
    [Ger. klump; D. klomp; Sw. klimp; Dan. klump, a lump; W. clamp. It is lump with a prefix. It coincides with plump, and L. plumbum, lead; as the D. lood, G
    55 KB (8,122 words) - 21:48, October 5, 2021
  • Common
    another man’s lands, waters, woods, &c. naturally produce; without having an absolute property in such lands, woods, waters, &c. 2 Inst. 65. “The general divisions
    39 KB (5,484 words) - 17:07, April 7, 2021
  • Cemetery/Burying ground/Burial ground
    Knowledge 1, no. 10 (June 1835): 450. Henry Schenck Tanner, City of Washington, c. 1836. "No. 67. Western Cemetery," first ward, upper western border of
    71 KB (10,152 words) - 10:36, April 6, 2021
  • Gardenesque
    to the beauty of the grounds.” Hovey, C. M. (Charles Mason), April 1841, describing the White House, Washington, DC (Magazine of Horticulture 8: 129) “We
    30 KB (4,397 words) - 16:03, July 14, 2020
  • The Evidence of American Garden History
    1944), 323–24, view on Zotero. Washington on Bartram’s garden, cited in George Washington, The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript
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