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 Principal Office: 810 F Street, 
 
 OPPOSITE U. S. PATENT OFFICE. 
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SIZE OF LOTS AND VILLA SITES, 
 
 WITH SCALE OP PRICES. 
 
 Price 
 
 VILLA SITES lying west of High- No. sq. pr. sq. 
 
 land Park. f^^t. foot. 
 
 Ct3. 
 
 No. 1 34,136* 4 
 
 2 28,95lj 4 
 
 3 86,067 3 
 
 4 38,129 2 
 
 5 56,909i 2 
 
 6.... 23,06l| 3 
 
 7 20,967| 3 
 
 8 13,926J 4 
 
 9 27,968' 4 
 
 10 41,761 3 
 
 11 31,726 3 
 
 12 28,082} 3 
 
 13 36,315j 3 
 
 14 34,050" 3 
 
 15 (Fairmount House) 80,570j 
 
 16 43,346' 3 
 
 GRAND VIEW VILLA SITES (east of High- 
 land Park). 
 
 No. 1 27,563 5 
 
 2 26,160 5 
 
 3..... 25,583i 5 
 
 4 24,358f 6 
 
 5 24,087| 5 
 
 6 29,219 5 
 
 7 26,907J 5 
 
 8 22,829 5 
 
 9 25,907} 5 
 
 Square No. I. 
 
 Lot No, 1 3,060 5 
 
 2 3,060 5 
 
 3 3,060 5 
 
 4 3,060 5 
 
 5 3,060 5 
 
 6 3,060 5 
 
 7 3,060 5 
 
 8 3,060 5 
 
 9 3,060 5 
 
 10 3,060 5 
 
 11 3,060 5 
 
 12 3,060 5 
 
 13 3,000 5 
 
 14 3,000 5 
 
 15 3,000 5 
 
 16 3,000 5 
 
 17 3,000 5 
 
 18 3,000 5 
 
 19 3,000 5 
 
 20 3,000 5 
 
 21 3,000 5 
 
 22 3,000 5 
 
 • 23 3,000 5 
 
 ISO. sq. pr. sq. 
 
 feet. foot. 
 
 cts. 
 
 24 3,000 5 
 
 25 3,100 5 
 
 26 3,100 5 
 
 27 3,100 5 
 
 28 3,100 5 
 
 29 3,100 5 
 
 30 3,100 5 
 
 31 3,100 5 
 
 Square No. 2. 
 
 All lots in this square contain 3,000 5 
 
 except lot No. 23 at public square, 
 
 ■which contains 3,260 5 
 
 Square No. 3. 
 
 Villa Site No. )• 12,855 5 
 
 2 5,950 5 
 
 3 5,208 5 
 
 4 7,950 5 
 
 5 and 6 11,444 5 
 
 7 8,036 5 
 
 8 5,024* 5 
 
 9 5,518' 5 
 
 10.. 7,587 5 
 
 Square No. 4. 
 
 All \ots in this square contain 3,000 5 
 
 except lot No. 41 at public square, 
 
 which contains 3,260 5 
 
 Square No. 5. 
 
 Alllots in this square contain 3,000 5 
 
 except lot No, 43, which contains 3,500 5 
 
 Square No, 6, 
 
 All lota in this square contain 3,000 5 
 
 except lots No, 6 and 7, which 
 
 contain 4,540 5 
 
 Square No. 7, 
 
 AH lots in this square contain 3,000 5 
 
 except lot 7 at public square, 
 
 which contains 3,010 5 
 
 Square No. 8. 
 
 Lots No. 1 and 12 5,023 5 
 
 2 and 13 6,417* 5 
 
 3 and 14 5,992* 5 
 
 Square No. 9, 
 
 AU lots in this square contain 3,000 5 
 
 except lot No. 7 at public square, 
 
 which contains 3,010 5 
 
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 3,000 
 3,000 
 
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 3,000 
 
 11.... 
 
 
 
 
 12.... 
 
 
 
 
 
 13... 
 
 
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 3,000 
 
 14 .3,000 
 
 15 3,000 
 
 16 3.000 
 
 17 aiooo 
 
 19 3,G90 
 
 20 3,934 
 
 ^1 4,239 
 
 ^2... 4,559 
 
 23 4.804 
 
 'M:.,.. ;V063 
 
 25 5,368 
 
 26 5;6r2 
 
 27 3,000 
 
 28 3,000 
 
 29 .-i.OOO 
 
 30 3J00O 
 
 31 3,000 
 
 33 3,000 
 
 33 3,000 
 
 34 3,000 
 
 35 3,000 
 
 36, 3,000 
 
 37 2,76-i 
 
 38 2,76<l 
 
 39 2,767,] 
 
 40 2,7B7i 
 
 41 2,767l 
 
 42 : 2,767i 
 
 43 , 2,7671 
 
 44 4,139' 
 
 45 (Kur.al Cottage) 9,430 
 
 46 7.328 
 
 47 : 3,000 
 
 48 3,000 
 
 49 .3,000 
 
 ."JO 3,000 
 
 51 3,000 
 
 52„ 3,000 
 
 ."■'3 2,400 
 
 Square No. 11. 
 
 . 1 3,000 
 
 2 3,000 
 
 3...."...... 3,000 
 
 4 3,000 
 
 5 3,000 
 
 6 3,000 
 
 7 3,500 
 
 8 3,600 
 
 9 3,500 
 
 10.. 3,000 
 
 4JI;- 11 3,000 
 
 12 3,000 
 
 13 3,000 
 
 14 3,000 
 
 15 3,000 
 
 16 19,695 
 
 17 18,800 
 
 18 17,155 
 
 19 anil 20 28,889j 
 
 * 21 17,929 
 
 22 19,706 
 
 -Ti 21,210 
 
 Square No. 12. 
 
 Lot No. 1 3,100 
 
 2 3,100 
 
 3 3,100 
 
 4 3,100 
 
 •=> 3,100 
 
 6 3,100 
 
 7 3,100 
 
 8 3,000 
 
 9 3,000 
 
 10 3,000 
 
 11 3,000 
 
 12 i 3,000 
 
 .13 , 3,000 
 
 14 3,000 
 
 15 3,000 
 
 16 3,000 
 
 17 3,000 
 
 18 3,000 
 
 19 3,000 
 
 20 3,000 
 
 21 3.000 
 
 22 3,000 
 
 23 3,000 
 
 24 .3,000 
 
 25 3.000 
 
 26 3JO00 
 
 27 2,460 
 
 28 , 3,100 
 
 29 3,100 
 
 30 3,100 
 
 31... .3,100 
 
 32 3,100 
 
 33 3,100 
 
 34 3,000 
 
 35 3,000 
 
 36 3,000 
 
 37... 3,000 
 
 38 3,000 
 
 .39 3,000 
 
 40 3,000 
 
 41 3,000 
 
 42 3,000 
 
 4.3 3,000 
 
 44 3,000 
 
 45 3,000 
 
 46. 3,000 
 
 47 3,000 
 
 48 ,. 3,000 
 
 49 3,0C0 
 
 50 3,000 
 
 51 3,000 
 
 32..V 3,000 
 
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 feet foot. 
 
 3,000 
 
 I'O'No- 1 3,000 3i 1'^ 3,00(1 
 
 2 3,000 3 ! '* 3,000 
 
 3,000 
 3,000 
 
 Square No. 14. 
 
 5 3,000 3 j Lot No. 1 3^000 
 
 6 3,000 3 ;■ 2 3,000 
 
 f 3,000 3 i -^ 3,000 
 
 * 3,000 3 ' •♦ 3,000 
 
 '•> 3,000 '31 ^ 3,000 
 
 ■0 2,T60 3 ' ^ 3,000 
 
 11 2,808 3 j '^ 8,522 
 
 13 3,000 si "^ 5,883 
 
 13 3,000 3 I 3 6,987 
 
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 Principai Office : 810 F Street, 
 
 OPPOSITE U. S. PATENT OFFICE. 
 WASHINGTON, D. C. 
 
 p. I,. Schiittftii'ssei-, I'linter, .iO!) Eighth Street, N. W. 
 
THE HJEGHLANBS! 
 
 Overlooking Bladensburg and Hyattsville on the Baltimore and 
 Ohio Railroad, both places being in fnll view, lies 
 
 "THE HIG-HLANDS," 
 
 the fnture "ne plus ultra" of suburban places about Washington! 
 
 This place was late the magnificent residence of J. P. Bartholow, and riding- 
 out from the Capitol City bj either the Baltimore and Ohio Railway or the Balti- 
 more Turnpike, it is found lying just between these two important thoroughfares 
 and fronting upon both. 
 
 By a ride upon this turnpike, acknowledged to be one of the finest sulnirban 
 drives about Washington, the time necessarily consumed is but thirty minutes and 
 byl'ail only eight minutes. 
 
 So naturally adapted to the purposes to which at last it has been dedicated, is 
 the location and ground at this point, that the late owner was often earnestly re- 
 quested, by many who specially desired to purchase and build, to lay off at least 
 a pai-t of the place in building* lots. 
 
 The Baltimore and Ohio Raiboad, 
 
 The Baltimore and Washington Turnpike, and 
 
 The Georgetown Road, 
 
 which latter passes through the place, all furnish fronts for building 
 upon, outside of the many wide avenues laid out. 
 
 The bill, which has recently passed both houses of Congress, and been approved 
 by the President, incorporating the Columbia Railway Company, will soon put a 
 third and convenient mode of travel from the City to The Highlands, to wit : 
 A line of street cars, — thereby giving the choice of three different means of 
 transit to and from the city, and putting residents there in as frequent and per- 
 haps more easy communication with the business centre of Washington than they 
 would have if residing in the i-emote streets ther^f, or in Georgetown. This line 
 of cars, leave 15th street at the Treasury Department, following New York avenue 
 to its intei'section at Seventh street and Massachusetts avenue, and thence on Mas- 
 
sachusetts avenue to the intersection of the same with H street, and thence 
 following H street to the Toll Gate at the City Boundary ; thence by the line of 
 the Columbia Turnpike passing the entire length of The Highlands and running 
 to Bladensburg. The bill fixes the fare at not to exceed seven cents from 15th 
 street west. 
 
 The advantages of having these several distinct means of frequent communi- 
 cation with the city will not fail to commend itself above that of having but one 
 means of transit to an<l fro. 
 
 The Regular Station, known upon the cards of the Baltimore and 
 Ohio Railroad Company as "Penn's Crossing," is upon this ground. 
 
 Commuteil tickets, enabling passengers to pass to and fro, between AYashing- 
 ron C'ity and The Highlands, as often as they desire, are issued at an expense of 
 but from ten to twelve cents per day — less th'^n the business men of Washington 
 and others pay daily to ride upon the street cars to their homes in those streets dis- 
 tant from the business parts of the city itself, with a large saving of time. 
 
 The Situation of The Highlands 
 
 is unsurpassed in every particular, and it is absolutely more delightful in its loca- 
 tion and all its picturesque surroundings, with all the requirements (in the way 
 of Churches, Schools, Stores, Mills, &C.,) fm" an immediate home, than 
 any other spot that could ))e chosen. 
 
 The thirty minutes' drive by the pike or the eight minutes' ride by rail into the 
 city are each attended with ease and comfort, partaking of real pleasure. 
 
 The place has the acknowledged benefit of a Railroad Depot upon the spot, 
 which, in these modern times, has become the almost demanded require- 
 ment for a town or city site. It is also entirely free from nuisances, and by 
 the most stringent restrictions will be thus preserved in every respect. 
 
 The Building of Cottages, Villas, & Dwellings 
 
 of various kinds is, if desired, combined here with the sales of the 
 building- sites, such arrangements having been made with prominent 
 builders, and care will be taken that a class of residences and build- 
 ings shall be erected, which shall do honor to the place and make it 
 the suburban place of Washington, where the merchant or other 
 business man mav retire at the close of his dav's labor, and fiud content- 
 
ment and pleasure in looking about him, together with the most unex- 
 ceptionable neighbors and society: and as the number of building spots 
 are very limited, the proprietors can safely promise that this shall be 
 carried out "to the letter." 
 
 Plans of several fine Villas and Dwellings 
 
 are on exhibition at the Office, containing from six to ten rooms each, 
 with modern improvements, which will be built on these lots at an ex- 
 pense of from fifteen hundred to three thousand dollars, with but one 
 fourtli payable when work is complete, and the balance in monthly 
 payments scarcely exceeding city rents. The attention of tiie 
 Public is especially directed to this important feature, and they are in- 
 vited to call and see the Plans of the houses, which it is proposed to 
 build upon these terms. 
 
 A handsome Cottage for $1,600. 
 
 A Fine Villa Residence for $2,300. 
 
 A large Country Residence for $3,000. 
 
 One-fourth payment only required when work is complete, balance 
 in instalments not to exceed $50 per month. 
 
 A number of these kinds of houses will be erected upon lots variously located, 
 which have been already secured by the most responsible builders in Washington, 
 and offered for sale, so that the great point in making a real suburban town of 
 "The Highlands'" is gained — that of having it built up and occupied by the best, 
 class of citizens from the Capitol City, as the class who have already made pur- 
 chases fully insures. 
 
 The villa for $2,300. of which the plan and design " No. 3 '" is to be 
 found in this book, contains seven rooms, has a bath room, two bay 
 windows, a pleasant verandah, and other modern improvements, and 
 is a perfect model of taste, beauty, and comfort. Several of these 
 houses have been erected by the same builders in Washington, and 
 have given great satisfaction. 
 
 The public will observe that these terms place the owning of a home within 
 
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 the reach of all of even limited means at hand. There are many persons of 
 moderate means Avho aspire to owning a home for themselves and their families — 
 a desirable home, to which they can invite their friends, first, because it is a home 
 and their home ; and second, because it is a delightful place, free from any sur- 
 rounding nuisances, and which, therefore, is a continual pleasure to those so for- 
 tunate as to be either occupants or visitors. They would be glad to get such a 
 home at any moderate price if they knew where it could be found within easy ac- 
 cess at all times of the city, and how they could pay for it. 
 
 Now. by the easy payments and reasonable price asked for the building lots at 
 The Highlands, and the terms upon which houses can be there secured, this 
 desideratum is obtained. 
 
 Orders for the erection of a number of tine dwellings have been al- 
 ready placed in the hands of the builders, by several of the best busi- 
 ness men of Washington, who have selected Sites for the same. 
 
 Too much cannot be said of the present 
 
 in and around this place, and of the great advantages it thus possesses. Forty 
 thousand dollars worth of houses and other improvements already upon 
 tlie ground ; it being in the immediate neighborhood of the villages of Bladensburg, 
 and llyattsville. both of which afford a fine view from the place, and surrounding 
 Country Homes thickly dotted on every side, together with what will at once be 
 built upon the building lots ah-eady disposed of, all being within the almost im- 
 mediate reach of the heart of the city, make these villas and building lots as 
 desiralile as city property, and in very many respects vastly preferable to such. 
 
 It is widely known that the late proprietor of this naturally beautiful place 
 lavished a fortune upon it, declaring it to be his intention to make the same the 
 "Paradise of the Southern Country." By an expenditure of thousands of dollars 
 in fertilizing he brought every foot of the ground here offered to the highest possible 
 state of cultivation — the crops resulting from which have been the wonder of the 
 country around. He then proceeded with an outlay of many thousands additional 
 in beautifying and further improvement — hundreds of dollars were also expended 
 in the walling up of choice springs. The place soon became widely known as the 
 " Model Farm." 
 
 The " Prince Georgian," a newspaper of the county, in which The High- 
 lands is situated, in speaking of this place, just before it was subdivided for a 
 
town site, pronounced it "one of the finest, if not the very bei<t pieces of property 
 in the State of Maryland." 
 
 The fruit orchards are very extensive and besides these the choicest of fruit 
 trees are interspersed throughout the entire phice. In now making selections of 
 building spots the public have the opportunity of having their ground already cov- 
 ered with the finest, young and thrifty, bearing fruits — apples, peaches, pears, 
 plums, &c., &c. The real value of these fruits is admitted by all, and no extra 
 price is charged for the lots or sites containing them. 
 
 have been laid off, and a space of six feet upon each side will be left 
 in grass which will be arranged so as to have the centre four feet of 
 the same for sidewalks with one foot of grass plat upon each side, which 
 will greatly add to the beauty of the streets of this place. 
 
 Wide alleys have also, been laid off at the rear of each and all of the building 
 lots. By having a good alley at the rear of their lot one saves considerable 
 space of frontage, which would otherwise have to be used on one whole side of the 
 lot for ingress and egress for carriages, &c., so that really a frontage of forty feet 
 with a good alley at the rear is equal to fifty feet with no alley. 
 
 Each street and avenue at The Highlands is now being handsomely 
 fenced in and this is entirely free from any expense to lot owners. 
 
 to which a family may become attached, and around which the memories of a 
 happy and healthful childhood may cluster in after years — a .home where the wife 
 may have her conservatory and other home pleasures away from the dust and un- 
 wholesome clamor of city life, in the quiet and peace of beautiful scenery, amid 
 the green fields, fresh air, and religious surroundings of nature — is felt very greatly 
 by city people. To such a home, chidren's love will cling and each tree and nook, 
 valley and stream has its lessons to them of joy and gladness and health, totally 
 unknown to the feverish and unwholesome life of the city. To such a home the 
 weary merchant, or jaded professional man may return after the perplexities and 
 toils of the day are over as to an elysium, and to such it may not be unintei'csting 
 to repeat that life insurance statistics assert that of those who transact busi- 
 
ness in the city, Uic longevity of the life of all who sleep in the country is in- 
 creased fifteen per centum. 
 
 As -we have before stated there are but a limited number of these lots, and 
 those desiring to secure a 
 
 Beantiful Home 
 
 possessing full city advantages at an extremely low price, should select the same 
 at once, so as to have the choice in location, &c. 
 
 The great desire for residences in the country is growing rapidly now, and 
 tlieffr appears to be almost a stampede, if we may use the word, to the country 
 about our cities, and Harper's Magazine, to show the classes who are so gen- 
 erally choosing an out-of-town residence, says : "The numberless outgoings of 
 late years, from the cities into the rural neighborhoods, of our men of wealth and 
 culture, bearing with them the examples and means of refinement, give very gra- 
 tifying promise of advance in the public manners and taste. Every settlement 
 thus made is a missionary station of social progress, which, in our ambitious and 
 imitative land must be speedily surrounded with a large parish of disciples, each 
 going forth in turn to teach the faith, until the influence shall spread like the 
 widening circles of pebble-broken water. The harvest, to be by and by reaped 
 from this broadcast sowing of the seeds of the cultivated way of the life in cities, 
 is healthful, for it is the good alone who love the country better than the town." 
 
 There are a larg-e number of choice and 
 
 upon the place, in various locations, so that no fear need be entertained 
 as to this important item : that of ha.Adng the best of water at all sea- 
 sons of the year.' 
 
 is upon this place, which runs a stream of three inches of water perpetually — this 
 will be retained for the benefit of the residents. 
 
Beech and Golden Springs 
 
 are also large and perpetual and will prove a great benefit to the people of the 
 place. There are several other fine springs — all of very pure water — at different 
 parts of the ground, which will be put in first-rate order. 
 
 Central Mansion, 
 
 (See IDrav^^iag.) 
 
 containing twenty-four rooms is located at the northern end of Highland ^alik 
 and facing the same, and is destined to become without a single exception the most 
 pleasant and fashionable resort around the Capitol City. 
 
 Its surroundings are of great-natural beauty and the grounds have of late years 
 been highly improved by -beautiful imported and native trees, fruits, and by all 
 that art and good taste could suggest, without regard to cost. The twenty acres of 
 oak grove in front of and around the homestead is the finest one about Wash- 
 ington. 
 
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 the improvements consisting of a new house of thirteen rooms besides three cellar 
 rooms, and a cistern of filtered water, holding eight thousand gallons, is built in the 
 most elegant and substantial manner, upon a handsome elevation, surrounded by 
 four acres of beautiful grounds — the lawn of this place, fronting upon the Balti- 
 more and Washington Turnpike, has been laid out with walks and shrubbery with 
 great taste, and the balance of the grounds is capable, with but a trifling e-'?pense. 
 of being beautified to the highest degree. 
 
 This place forms, in all respects, a most desirable country residence, and is 
 offered complete for twelve thousand dollars. 
 
 Rural Cottage 
 
 is finely situated on Georgetown Avenue. It has six rooms, and is surrounded by 
 fine shade trees, and is offered for sale, with a villa lot containing 9,430 square 
 feet of ground, on long time, at a bargain. 
 
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 Grand View Avenue 
 
 forms the dividing line between the grove of Highland Park and the handsome 
 set of Grand View villa sites which front toward the same. These ten villa sites, 
 containing from one-half to upwards of one acre each, are claimed by the proprie- 
 tors to be as handsome sites for villas as can be found elsewhere about the city. 
 They lie upon the rise of ground next the Park, and ovei-look Bladensburg and 
 Hyattsville in the distance, and certainly possss many desirable advantages. 
 
 The Sixteen Villa Sites 
 
 west of Highland Park, which include Villa Heights, West End, Fair- 
 mont, Prospect Point, The Seven Cedars, Crown Point, Byron 
 Place, &C., iii'e a succession of beautiful mounds or small hills, each command- 
 ing a full view of the railway and turnpike, and having fine shade trees, and will 
 no doubt attract the general attention of purchasers of sites for villa homes. 
 
 The Proprietors have, in laying off and forming this place, so arranged as to 
 a'ive 
 
 Three Public Parks 
 
 for the benefit of those Avho may purchase 'lots or villa sites here, and which will 
 greatly add to the beauty and comforts of the place. The placing of a hand- 
 some fountain, which can have a fine supply of water in the center of each 
 of these parks is in contemplation by the proprietors, and this, with many other 
 improvements which will be added, besides the natural beauties of the spot, will 
 all go to make a residence here a perfect enchantment. 
 
 Ground has been denctted by the owners of land lying between The High- 
 lands and Hyattsville for the extension of Railroad avenue to the latter place. 
 
 Subscriptions have been opened and freely subscribed to by the people living in 
 the neighborhood of The Highlands for the erection of a handsome church, upon 
 a lot which has been donated by the proprietors for the same ; and with the num- 
 ber of churches, schools, &c., already in the immediate vicinity, the elements of a 
 fair suburban place are certainly assured. 
 
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 It is well to look at the 
 
 Economy 
 
 of such a home. The question, therefore^ is — 
 
 Is it cheap? for it might be a doubtful investment if rural life, not- 
 withstanding its manifold advantages, were to cost more than a city resi- 
 dence. It is undeniable that one's income in Washington is nearly always 
 a fixed fact, and admits of no great latitude in the discussion of advantages 
 and disadvantages. It is quite certain that a man with |2.000 per annum 
 would come to grief were he to take upon himself the liabilities of $4,000 
 either in city or country, and in rural villages the contrast with actual coun- 
 try life may be very faint. But the great rock upon which every proposition 
 of economy splits, in Washington, is the utterly ruinous and unconscionable 
 rents demanded by landlords, and the fabulously high prices exacted by 
 what are facetiously termed boarding houses, whose accommodations are 
 for the most part, in inverse ratio to their charges. To either of these 
 dilemmas a suburban residence presents the only rational and 
 prudent solution. The amount paid for rent, or board, in the city, will 
 support a family in the same style, and more elegantly, healthfully, and 
 agreeably in the country, and in three years will pay for a home, the 
 amount invested to be of course graduated by the previous expenses, the 
 $2,000 per annum furnishing a smaller establishment than $4,000, and 
 $1,000 than either. These sums do not contemplate a costly villa and reti- 
 nue of servants, but a comfortable handsome home can be procured in The 
 Highlands for from $1,500 to $3,000, and the rent of a genteel house in 
 Washington will pay for it, together with all extra expenses, as fare for 
 himself and family, and at the end of three years the home is his own, 
 and the property has more than doubled in value. 
 
 Under the head of Economy also very appropriately may be mentioned 
 the cost of the various necessaries of life which all having families have dail}' 
 throughout life to look for and secure. "The Highlands," being just at 
 the head of tide-water and navigable, by this means families in the vicin- 
 ity have just put in a winters supply of Coal one dollar on a ton cheaper 
 than the same could be had in Washington. Fresh meats will also be de- 
 livered upon the ground at prices varying from five to ten cents per pound 
 less than all are compelled to pay in the city market. Vegetables in any 
 quantities can be had ten per cent cheaper than the same sell for ia the city. 
 It will thus be seen that besides all other advantages of a homo here, 
 
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 there is also a large saving upon all the necessaries of life, vv^hich in the course 
 of years is of no small moment. 
 
 It appears from the reports at the U. S. Census Bureau that Washington 
 stands as having heen the third city of the Uuion in the increase of its pop- 
 ulation during thepast ten years, and heing prohably the only city in the 
 United States of its size without a suburban town, we are satisfied that in a 
 short time the full success of " The Highlands" as such will be fully realized. 
 
 The following is extracted from Putnam's Magazine for September. Commenting 
 upon Hon. Frederick L. Olmstead's recent pamphlet, in which he endeavors to 
 show an inclination in all countries to gather into towns, the editor says : 
 
 "We do not believe, however, that the couutry is going to be wholly deserted for the 
 citie.s ; on the contrarj', we think that by means of a park-like arrangment rural neigh- 
 borhoods may be made as attractive as any towns. Tlio great drawback of country 
 life now is its solitariness, or the want of those conveniences which are to be found only 
 in larger aji^gregations of families. * * * '^1^^ remedy for this is in some sort of 
 united settlement, where the lands, though not owned in common, may be laid out in 
 common, and where a sufficient number of families will be joined together to command 
 a good market, good teachers, and an adequate social intercourse. We have heard of 
 one or two of these settlements, not far from this city, where all the advantages of town 
 and country are combined to a surprising extent." 
 
 In the laying out of The Highlands, the very points suggested by the editor's 
 opinion have been carefully looked to. — Several parks, and springs under shade 
 trees walled up and put in order with convenient seats arranged, have been donated 
 for the benefit of the residents there, and the placing of the fountain in each of 
 the public squares will also materially add to the carrying out of the idea of the 
 editor of "laying out in common" of a suburban or rural town "where a sufii- 
 cient number of families will be joined together to command a good market, good 
 teachers, and an adequate social intercoui-se." 
 
 The proprietors feel asstu-ed that the citizens of Washington will at once per- 
 ceive its benefits. 
 
 The Highland; 
 
 HAS ALSO AN HiSTOElCAL INTEREST, which makes a visit to it well worth the 
 while, it havmg been the Batik Ground of the engagement between the American 
 and British forces, known as the 
 
 Battle of Bladensburg. 
 
 fought in the month of August, 1814, which resulted in the capture of our 
 National Capitol by the British, and in connection with which the main fruit 
 
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 orchard, spoken of herein, and the Okl Barn then there, (and i'roui the timbers of 
 which the present Red Barn, on Washington avenue was built,) bear a conspicu- 
 ous reference. This was the orchard which, by its low branches, protected the 
 British troops, and in Avhich they were when the Americans were driven from 
 the barn in question. This battle commenced at the lower end of this place and 
 extended back as the American troops kept retiring over the whole length of the 
 place, the British finally pressing on and capturing the city of Washington. 
 
 General Stansbury^ one of the American generals who commanded at this 
 battle, in his report to the War Department, dated November 15, 1814, says : 
 " On arriving in the Orchard, near the mill, I directed the artillery to post them- 
 selves behind a small breastwork of dirt that had lately been thrown up by Col. 
 Wadsworth. This battery commanded the pass into Bladensburg, and the bridge 
 southwesterly of the town — the artillery consisted of six 6-pounders — Major Pinck- 
 ney's batallion of riflemen on the right, under cover of the town and bushes, 
 also commanding the pass by the bridge, two companies from Lieut. Col. Shutz's 
 regimetit acting as riflemen, although principally armed with muskets, on the left 
 of the artillery, near, and protected by the barn, intended to defend the road 
 leading by the mill — [being the present Georgetown avenue at The Highlands] — 
 Col. Sterritt's regiment was halted in the orchard on the right and in the rear, 
 and the regiments of Colonels Ragan and Shutz were also halted in the orchard. 
 While giving some directions to the artillery I found Colonel Ragan's |and Shutz's 
 regiments had been moved out of the orchard up the hill and formed in order of 
 battle, about two hundred and fifty yards above the orchard — [where the present 
 Grand View Villa sites are laid out.] Thus uncovered by the orchard their situa- 
 tion and numbers were clearly seen by the enemy and the flanks of the artillery 
 and riflemen left unprotected and laid liable to be turned.'" 
 
 Among other local interests in the vicinity of " The Highlands" may be seen 
 
 The Moted Dueling Ground. 
 
 This spot being near the main turnpike, and juat outside the jurisdiction of the 
 District of Columbia, was easy of approach from the City of Washington and conven- 
 ient for escape from the athorities of Maryland. It is by the side of a small stream 
 of water, hemmed in by hills rising on each side, which stood like sentinels to guard the 
 privacy of the place, while it was in those days further screened from observation by a 
 thick foliage of trees and heavy matted vines overhanging, and a dense undergrowth, 
 so that in every respect it seemed peculiarly adapted for the objects to which it had 
 been dedicated. Along the bank of this stream the cattle by dint of patient engineer- 
 ing, had trampled a path in search of shade or water. 
 
 A writer of many years ago in speaking of this spot says : this narrow cowpath was 
 the 
 
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 Field of Honor. 
 
 Here in the dim twilight not fifty yards from the road, the impetuous spirits of Wash- 
 ington City and the States adjacent, brought their controversies for adjustment. It 
 was an appeal final from the rhetoric of words to the logic of arms. It was the court of 
 of last resort, in which knotty points of etiquette, abstruse social problems, and ques- 
 tions of veracity, propriety and right were expounded by the convincing power of gun- 
 powder. 
 
 The process of ratiocination was exceedingly luminous and so simple as to be adap- 
 ted to the commonest capacity. It was based on the theory of some supposed connec- 
 tion between saltpetre and a change of opinion. It assumed that an argument made by 
 a rhetorician might be unintelligible or inconclusive, but that a syllogism propelled by 
 powder, if properly aimed, could hardly fail to carry conviction to the dullest intellect. 
 It believed that the intricate bearing of a subject could be best investigated at ten paces, 
 and that propositions, difficult and apparently irreconcileable, by a piece of hollow hard- 
 ware, held parallel to the observers line of vision, could be rendered perfectly simple 
 and harmonious — hence the pistol was esteemed the most effective of moral agents, 
 though new views of duty were sometimes revealed through the rifle, and obstinate ideas 
 exploded through the musket. 
 
 Principals with their friends, seconds with their instruments of death, and surgeons 
 with their instruments of relief, were generally the sole witnesses of these desperate 
 proceedings. The ground was measured, the choice decided, the antagonists placed, 
 the word spoken, and then by an administration of justice somewhat peculiar, if the 
 lionor which had demanded redress limped away with the loss of its leg, or if the rep- 
 utation which had sought to vindicate itself from unmerited aspersion, received a ball 
 through its heart, the " satisfaction " was deemed most ample and complete. 
 
 What peculiar virtues there were in the particular cow-path referred to, that it should 
 have been accorded such high preminence, and that it should have been selected by 
 duelists even from the remoter States of the Union, it would be a difficult task to de- 
 termine. 
 
 The Surounding Scenery 
 
 is beautiful, and no spot about the Capitol City can boast of such variety, and at 
 once so desirable a view as this presents in all directions from the ground. 
 Certainly 
 
 No Suburbs of the City of Washington 
 
 can for one moment compare with it in desirability, and no vicinity has the at- 
 tractiveness and improvement which this one possesses. The putting down of the 
 
 preparatory to the running of street cars to this point will, as we before remarked, 
 
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 inake it more desirable than the majority of even city property, as 
 
 The Contiguity to Washington 
 
 of The Highlands, with its various modes of easy access, will especially com- 
 mend itself to the business man as a spot where he may retire after the labors of 
 the day, with the certainty of having healthful and pure air,' free from dust and 
 filth, and which will prove far more pleasant than a residence in any part of the 
 city. 
 
 This property has been laid off in villa sites and building lots 
 of sizes to suit the public, with spacious avenues and wide alleys at the rear. 
 
 The matter of having but 
 
 Nominal Taxes 
 
 is one of no small consideration. The Highlands being situated just outside 
 the District line, the heavy District taxes are avoided. The Ta.xes upon these lots 
 for the present year have been paid by the proprietors. 
 
 The Highlands is bordered upon the west by the fine estate of the late John 
 C. Eives, which, by his will, dated April 24th, 1864, upon certain contingencies 
 not improbable to occur, becomes the property of the United States Government, 
 in which case, from its proximity to the United States Capitol, it will, no doubt, 
 be transformed into a fine public institution. 
 
 The Highlands is also located just at the head of tide water and navigation 
 via the Eastern Branch — and the vicinity abounds in excellent fishing. Perch, fall 
 fish, and thousands of fine herring, have been taken by a single haul of the seine 
 here, and the fish are certainly very fine in their season. Many other varieties of 
 the finny tribe may be here caught in great numbers by the disciples of Izaac 
 Walton. 
 
 In this vicinity is also one of the finest, if not the very best, bathing places to 
 be found around Washington — the water being clear, cool, and having a fine sandy 
 bottom. 
 
 It is one of the healthiest localities known! 
 
 There has also been reserved at "The Highlands" a Spa Spring, furnishing 
 the same water as the widely known 
 
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 Spring's 
 
 at Bladeusbnrg, which are but a short walk distant, and for a period of fifty years, 
 have been so noted for their medicinal properties. That the ingredients of this 
 water are powerful and salutary and are of great benefit to all classes of persons, 
 is a well known fact. 
 
 AVe subjoin the following certificates of our highest professional men : 
 
 Washington, D. C, July 28, 1868. 
 To the Hon. William F. Purcell : 
 
 Sir : My opinion of the yaluc of the mineral waters of the spring, known as the 
 Spa Spring, at Bladensburg, having been asked, I cheerfully answer that I have 
 known the Spring all my life, since my early childhood, and it always had a high 
 reputation as a curative agent. This induced my attention to it as a professional 
 man, and I have been in the habit of advising its use for the last thirty-five years, 
 and it has proved so efficient as a tonic and alterative, that my opinion in its favor 
 has become stronger and stronger every year ; and I do not now hestitate to rec- 
 ommend its use to all invalids wlio require a chalybeate tonic and alterative. 
 
 Yours, very truly, W. B. MAGRUDER, M. D. 
 
 I fully concur in the opinion of Dr. Magruder, that the Spa Spring, at Bladens- 
 burg, is a very valuable tonic, where a chalybeate is indicative. 
 
 J. C. HALL, M. D. 
 
 I consider the Spa Spring, located at Bladensburg, a valuable tonic and altera- 
 tive, decidedly beneficial in many cases requiring the use of chalybeates. 
 
 F. HOWARD, M. D. 
 
 I fully concur in opinion with Drs. Magruder, Hall, and Howard. 
 
 JOHNSON ELIOT, M. I). 
 
 Washington, D. C, July 27, 1868. 
 Son. William F. Purcell, Judge of Orphans'' Court, D. C. : 
 
 Dear Sir : In answer to your inquiries I will state that the Spa Spring, near 
 Bladensburg, Prince George's County, Md., has had a considerable reputation as 
 a medicinal agent for more than forty years. I have never seen any analysis of 
 the waters, but, from their use by myself and others, believe them to be highly 
 
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 impregnated with iron. I have known many instances in which individuals have 
 been benefitted by their use, by residing in their neighborhood, and drinking 
 freely of them. 
 
 Very respectfully, your friend, N. YOUNG, M. I). 
 
 Bills looking to the abolition of the charter, granted in 1810 to the 
 Columbia Turnpike Company, for their Turnpike from Washington to Bal- 
 timore, have been introduced in both Houses of Congress, that in the Senate, having 
 been favorable to the abolition, was reported upon by the committee. This turnpike 
 company's charter, as granted by the State of Maryland, was ten years ago abo- 
 lished by action of the State Legislature, the remnant now in existence being but 
 about two and one half miles in length. There is no doubt but this will be de- 
 clared free soon after the reassembling of Congress, next December, and this Pike 
 will then, undoubtedly, be widened to 66 feet, the same width as that broad and 
 magnificient drive to Glenwood cemetery, which, added to the natural 
 beauties of the drive in this direction, will open up a very popular thoroughfare 
 far surpassing all others out from AYashington. 
 
 commencing at the Capitol, running thence out Maryland avenue to the toll 
 gate, past Mount Olivet cemetery to Bladensburg, and Spa Spring, and return- 
 ing, passing- through The Highlands and thence to Glenwood cemetery, or by 
 way of " Soldiers Home" to the city, passes by and in immediatei^roximity to the 
 residences and estates of Dr. Palmer, the late Col. Wm. Hickey, Col. C. M. Alex- 
 ander, Hon. Clark Mills, the celebrated Sculptor, Col. Wright Rives, Mr. H. L. 
 Carleton, Mrs. Clemson, George W. Riggs, Banker, Hon. Hugh McCulloch, late 
 Secretary of the Treasury, the late Asst. Postmaster General Dundas, Col. Brooks, 
 Chief Justice Chase, Mr. Middleton, Hon. Wm. W. Corcoran, and many other 
 prominent persons, is one used very much by those desiring a quiet and pleasur- 
 able drive. 
 
 For Business Men, 
 
 who need to secure the following general advantages, in the selection of their 
 homes : 
 
 Contiguity to the Business Center, 
 
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 Ease and Comfort in Traveling, 
 Frequency in Communication, 
 Entire Healthfulness of Location, 
 Beauty and Extent of Prospect, 
 Absolute Freedom from Nuisance, 
 Destrabitity as an Investment, 
 Increase of Value of the Property. 
 
 The Highlands presents inducements rarely to be met with, as a visit there 
 will fully show. 
 
 A full and complete abstract of the Title to this property, certified to by the 
 Cleric of the Court and by Messrs. Marbury and Wheeler, lawyers of the highest 
 standing in the county, may be seen at the Office of the proprietors, 
 
 Our Prices! 
 
 The choice in the lots containing from three to four thousand square feet of ground 
 for $150, a small portion cash and the balance on one year time in four equal pay- 
 ments. 
 
 A discount of 5 per cent, made on all cash purchases. 
 
 For the larger lots and villa sites for two to five cents per square foot, accord- 
 ing to location, on same time as above or longer, if desired. 
 
 Of course this price applies where the purchaser does not desire the erection of 
 a residence upon the lot he ^elects. In that case the two are combined, requiring 
 so much down and the balance in monthly payments to suit. 
 
 The proprietors take the liberty of advising all who have an intention of pur- 
 chasing a site here to do so at an early day as it would be most economical for 
 them to avail themselves of the present prices as they are now placed in the market 
 at the lowest possible figures. 
 
 It only consumes thirty minutes to drive out, by one of the 
 most delightful of drives, to pay this spot a visit. All are made 
 welcome and all courtesies extended. Or a quicker ride from the city is afforded 
 by the Railroad, which only takes eight minutes and is accompanied with Init a 
 
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 trifling expense, aiid to look over this handsome place with its many liistorical 
 and local interests, certainly well repays the visitor. 
 
 Let all at least visit and see the place, whether they intend to secitre one of its 
 building spots or not. 
 
 By calling at the office of the proprietors, any party desiring to be shown the 
 place will be taken there at any time free of expense, and any and all information 
 respecting the same cheerfully given, where also maps and pamphlets will be fur- 
 nished upon application. 
 
 Photographs executed by Gardner of the entire place, and impro\"ements there- 
 on may be also seen at the office. 
 
 Parties desiring to visit The Highlands by Railroad, in the morn- 
 ing, should leave the depot of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at 9.25, or in the 
 afternoon at 4.10. In eight minutes afterward they will be upon the ground, 
 where, they will always find parties to show them about, free of any expense, and 
 to render them all desired information. Visitors can return to the city by rail 
 at almost any hour in the day. 
 
 An editorial, which appeared in the "New York Tribune" of August 31, 1870, 
 puts forth such forcible tritths in favor of the possessing of just such a home as i.s 
 here offered, and is worth a careful perusal in such connection. It is entitled : 
 
 ■'NATURE VERSUS HOTELKEEPERS. 
 ''The holiday of the year is nearly over. Our correspondents have written up the 
 Summer for ua as thoroughly as the war : yet, on glancing over their letters, we are 
 struck by a certain sameness on one point. They give us glimpses of Nature in all 
 kinds of poses and moods : the sea, the mountains, crystal skies, and breezy woods, but 
 all set in costly frames, labeled by their showmen, the hotelkeepers, as worth from three 
 to twenty dollars per day for a view. A poor man might be impelled in the bitterness 
 of his soul to ask if Mother Nature was in the market, with the rest of the world's good 
 things, to be sold to the highest bidder.; and if the dry-goods kings and liquor-lords, 
 who monopolize the opera and terrapin in Winter, were to put the cure which God 
 gives gratis to the sick world in Summer of salt seas and wholesome clover fields, into 
 their pockets and walk away with it. It looks like it. From the first broiling days in 
 .June, the world was all before the man with money, where to choose. A dirty green- 
 back was the only key needed to open to him dusky rivers, pinnacles of snow, primitive 
 forests, or crisp waves on yellow sands. In the mean time the great masses with which 
 our cities ar filled — laborers, mechanics, and that innumerable class whose culture ex- 
 ceeds their means — drone on at workbench, desk, and sewing machine day after day, 
 their only insight into the bounteous Summer the red hot pavements underfoot, or the 
 sun in a coppery sky. If Mr. Lowell still labors under tlie delusion that' there is no 
 
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 price for tlie lavish Summer, and June may be had by the poorest comer,' or even by 
 the man with one or two thousand dollars a year, let him only put himself in the place 
 of a bookkeeper or salesman, and try to get two weeks' country lodging for his wife 
 and five children. Oar word for it, he will waken up to the fact that there are a great 
 many middlemen between Nature and her children who have to be consulted before 
 they can come to repose upon her bosom. 
 
 " The matter is not one for jest. The natural tendency of American life is overwork 
 for both men and womau, and over-tension on the nervous system. Now, rest is as 
 absolute a law of nature as labor, and the man who persistently violates this law pays 
 the penalty in unable muscles, brain, and digestive organs, and mostly in that impalpa- 
 ble, swift, fatal decrease of vital energy, most dangerous of all. Our defenses, physical 
 and social, against overwork or trouble are naturally weak. We have fewer holidays, 
 fewer amusements among us, than any other nation. We have neither the lightheart- 
 edness of the Frenchman, the elastic indifference of the Celt, nor the dogged stolidity 
 of the Englishman. The stroke of ill luck or the grief which a Frenchman would 
 dance and an Irishman drink away, and John Bull never feel at all, the American 
 fights his way over. But it wears and cankers long in his brain. He is bilious, morbid ;^ L 
 he conquers Fortune at the cost of a torpid liver, dyspeptic stomach, and irritable tem- 
 per. The great social need of the nation, as it is represented in the cities, is rest and 
 amusement. The noon of the year seems to be offered to us for this very purpose. Dis- 
 ease and intolerable heat on one side drive the tired workman and his wife with their 
 sickly children out of town, and the boundless quiet and rest of woods and pure air and 
 sweet-smelling harvest fields wait to give them cure and strength. Now what does the 
 workman or clerk ordinarily do in this case ? Say that he can afford a week or a fort- 
 night's time and fifty or a hundred dollars. In nine cases out of ten the money is spent 
 in a new gaudy dress for his wife, and two or three days at a hot, over-crowded water- 
 ing place, where Nature was never heard of, and the poor woman gapes open-eyed at 
 fashionable toilets, her heart bitter with envy, aud her brain aching to devise means to 
 imitate them iu her owu calicoes and delaines. The children, if they have any part in 
 this chance for fresh life and strength, are dragged into the same vulgar treadmill, and 
 they all go back to the old routine in town with fresh anxiety and discontent, and body 
 and mind exhausted and debased. The Summer is ended, and they are not saved. The 
 story repeats itself in the great mass of city families. Its results are trite and grave 
 enough. It is not chronic disease nor epidemic, our physicians attest, which shortens 
 the average Amei'icau life, but abuse and overwork. It is greatly owing to the lack of 
 softening, liberal, and wholesome influences of Nature on our children and youth that 
 they harden into sharp, narrow, and vicious men. 
 
 A few words of practical advice to end this dreary summing up of facts. A poor 
 mechanic in this city last Spring saved enough to allow him a few weeks holiday. 
 Eight dollars bought a tent, a few kitchen utensils, and the work-day clothes of his 
 wife and children were packed in a box ; ten dollars conveyed the whole by railway and 
 country stage route, to a wild part of the Jersey coast. Fish, crabs, game (and that of 
 the best) were to be had for the taking; butter, potatoes, &c., were cheaper than in 
 town. John came back to his work-bench ruddy and stout, his shoulders back, head 
 up, talking like a very Nimrod of the chase, and began the year's work with an impe- 
 tus of fresh vigor that would carry him through it. His wife went singing to her work 
 with an insight into the beauty of life and God's goodness that never had come into 
 her life before; the children, born and bred in a stifling alley, babbled of the sea and 
 green fields all through the year. Another family, people of education but small means, 
 hired an unused cottage of three rooms A little whitewash and matting, books, a print 
 or two, mad? a home. The region was wild and solitary ; for a month the monntains 
 
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 belonged to tlieiii In both cases tliej' were far removed from the route of ordiiuiry 
 pleasure seekers; consequently the rates of living were elieaper than in town, and there 
 was no tawdry gleam of Fashion to come between them and Nature's steadfast face. 
 We onlj'' throw out these hints to show that the poor man as well as the rich man can 
 find liis rest if he obstinately ignore Mrs. Grundy. Ponce de Leon's fountain of healtli. 
 and youth, and life, is yet to be found in the secret fastnesses of Nature, and no hotel- 
 keeper lias yet set a price on it." 
 
 l''or those classes of bu.siuess men whose business is such that they cami'it well 
 leave it for the summer, and for those^ classes who cannot aftord to pay the cost 
 of taking theif families to a ■' AA^atering Place" each summer, a cheap and pleasant 
 I'esideucc with a constant every day enjoyment of those great benefits which the 
 "boundless quiet and rest of woods," and •• pure air and sweet-smelling h:ir\ost 
 lielils" alone can give, is offered them at The Highlands. 
 
 AS A FURTHER INDUCEMENT 
 
 all imrchasers of SU'ES FOR HOMES at 
 who coimiieiuc to build tliereou previous to 
 
 MA.RCH 1. 1871, 
 
 will recei\ from the proprietors, without expense, a 
 
 fill CiOJMMUmi'IOjH jPASS^ . 
 GOOD FOR ONE YEAR UPON THE RALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD, 
 
 entitling tlie holder to pass to and fro upon all trains between 
 
 Washington City and The Highlands. 
 
LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS 
 
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LIBRfiRY OF CONGRESS 
 
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