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Object ID |
1987.39.01 |
Title |
Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 1966-1968 |
Object Name |
Book |
Author |
Rosenberger, Francis Coleman |
Publisher |
Columbia Historical Society |
Published Date |
1969 |
Published Place |
Washington, D.C. |
Description |
Records of the Columbia Historical Society, 1973-1974 Edited with an Introduction by Francis Coleman Rosenberger Article by Albert Atwood, "The Romance of Senator Francis G. Newlands and Chevy Chase," p. 294-310, in the "Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C., 1966-1968." Includes a photograph of Francis G. Newlands. FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY. THE PHOTOGRAPH 1987.39.01-2 OF FRANCIS G. NEWLANDS IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR REPRODUCTION. It appears in this article published in the journal of the Columbian Historical Society of Washington, D.C, and it cannot be reproduced by CCHS Edited and with an introduction by Francis Coleman Rosenberger Published by the Society: Washington, D.C., 1969. First two paragraphs: "Offhand you may think my title is exaggerated. How can a land development be romantic? Is today's speaker a propagandist unbefitting the dignity and scholarly detachment of the Columbia Historical Society? Far from it. My story is a truly amazing one; my difficulty is to find words to do justice to its factual richness. "It is an important chapter in the history of the nation's capital practically untold before in all its many and various ramifications, and unknown to the great majority of Washington residents. It is built around one man, a comparatively young San Francisco lawyer, a Washington resident in his youth and again in his full maturity, who built out of farm land that great thoroughfare, Connecticut Avenue, from what is now Calvert Street to beyond what is now Chevy Chase, and created what became probably the best known suburb in the country, Chevy Chase." |