Library Record
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Metadata
Object ID |
1987.25.01 |
Title |
The City of Washington: An Illustrated History |
Object Name |
Book |
Author |
Junior League of Washington |
Publisher |
Knopf |
Published Date |
1981 |
Published Place |
New York |
Description |
The City of Washington: An Illustrated History of The City of Washington by The Junior League of Washington Edited by Thomas Froncek Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1981 Includes index. Bibliography: p. 377. War and Reconstruction The Patawomeck Photos Illustrations Photo of Chevy Chase Hunt on p. 288 The Chevy Chase Hunt gathers (circa 1900) at the old Abraham Bradley farmhouse, half a mile beyond the Chevy Chase Circle on Connecticut Avenue. The house, built in 1749 by Joseph Belt, was bought by Bradley when he came to Washington in 1800 to serve as John Adams' Postmaster General. It became part of the Chevy Chase Club around the turn of the century. "Somebody had a pack of mangy hounds and got up hunt" was the wry recollection of Charles Carroll Glover, Jr. The Chevy Chase Hunt, organized in 1892, had merged with the earlier Dunblane Hunt, which centered around Tenleytown and often ended its meets at Grasslands. Sometimes the field met in Rock Creek Park at Pierce Mill, finishing at Kensington. As The Rider and Driver described the New Year's chase of 1894, the fox "headed straight south, giving the riders a stiff in and out across the road west of Chevy Chase Circle, and then back again into the Reno Road, whence he was followed south almost to Tennallytown. But open space was shrinking. In Chevy Chase, "the Villagers began to complain about the baying of the hounds" wrote hunt historian Samuel J. Henry. The pack was removed to M. F. H. Clarence Moore's farm near Kensington. By 1916 Moore, the guiding spirit, had gone down with the Titanic; America was at war; and the hunt was disbanded. With it died a tradition that began with the Washington Hunt of the 1830s, whose members dined from time to time with Andrew Jackson in the White House and whose meets began at their kennels a short distance from the Willard Hotel. Inside cover is signed and states: "For the Chevy Chase Historical Society, with best wishes from the Junior League of Washington, Douglas Sprunt, May 12, 1983" |