Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine (1912) (14758807131)

Identifier: baltimoreohioemp04balt (find matches)
Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



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r Lake Erie.After his return from this dangerousmission he was made commander of themilitary district of Virginia, and had thetask, with an inadequate force, ofguarding the frontier. While engaged inthis duty he spent much time in Win-chester, and the building in which hemade his headquarters is still standing. Sir Johns Run SirJohnsRun,anoldstagingstation,wasnamed after Captain Sir John Sinclair,the commander of Braddocks vanguard. THE HALTIMORK AND OHIO KMPLOYKS MAOAZINK 17 Hancock—Berkeley Springs Hancock is the junction point on theBaltimore and Ohio for Berkeley Springs,six miles away. This pleasant resort wasoriginally called WarmSprings and laterBath, and even before the time of thewhite man was frequented by Indians forthe purpose of bathing in its waters. tliere. On the lawn in front of the bathhouse there is a great elm (called the\\ashington Elm) which was planted byGeneral Washington. Cumberland Port Cumberland was long the advancepost of civilization in the Alleghanies,
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IX THIS OLD HOUSE IX HISTORIC WIXCHESTER, VA.. WASHIXGTOX LIVED WHILE GIAHDIXGTHE FROXTIER AGAIXST THE ATTACKS OF THE FREXCH AXD THEIR IXDIAX ALLIES The ground upon which the town nowstands was part of the great Fairfax Land-grant from which Washington surveyedmany farms. He records having visitedWarm Springs in 1747. With mem-bers of his family he visited it from timeto time. He camped out there duringthe summer months, and later, togetherwith Charles Carroll of Carrollton, GeneralHoratio Gates and other prominent men,purchased land and built a summer home and the advance base of Washingtonsand Braddocks expeditions. The oldfort stood on a bluff at the junction ofWills Creek (named for an old Indianchief; and the Potomac River. Thesite is now occui)ied by the EpiscopalChurch. At the close of the 52ndchapter of Thackerays The Virghi-ians. George Warrington, describing hisreturn from captivity after Braddocksdisaster sajs: 18 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE