– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Haberdeventure Haberdeventure is part of the Thomas Stone National Historic Site. It is located in Charles County, MD about 25 miles south of Washington, DC. The site covers a few hundred acres with many outbuildings as well as the graves of Thomas Stone and his family. However, it the historic house called...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Two Frogs On A Bike Two Frogs On A Bike is an antiques store in Hanover, Virginia. It is housed in a clapboard country-store building dating back to 1954, although it appears to be much older. It is located at the northern end of the town on Virginia Route 2 and US Route 301, which have merged into a single road...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Culpeper County Courthouse The current Culpeper County Courthouse is the third building to have the title. The original courthouse was a simple frame building built in 1750. Being declared unsafe in 1808, a replacement two-story brick building was constructed on the same site the following year. In 1870, the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Amtrak AEM7 The Amtrak AEM7 is an electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division for the Northeast Corridor between Washington, DC and Boston. When Amtrak inherited the passenger operations from the bankrupt Penn Central in 1971 the electrified passenger operations between Washington and New...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Octagon House The Octagon House is located at the junction of 18th Street and New York Avenue, NW in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, DC. Like the Wilkins House and the Patterson Mansion which we have visited in earlier posts, the property has been designed to deal with the unusual, non-rectangular...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Fauquier County Courthouse The current Fauquier County Courthouse is the sixth in a county which has only been in existence for a little over 250 years. Fauquier County was formed when it was separated from Prince William in 1759. Its county seat, originally known as Fauquier Court House, was incorporated as...
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