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Page 11
... residences , saw - mills , the old abandoned Marine Hospital , huge lumber piles , freight sheds , etc. , all in such a magnificent but pleasing confusion that one cannot help but think that they had once occupied different localities ...
... residences , saw - mills , the old abandoned Marine Hospital , huge lumber piles , freight sheds , etc. , all in such a magnificent but pleasing confusion that one cannot help but think that they had once occupied different localities ...
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... residences . The first stands about midway between Church street and the depot , and which , through a combination of semi - Moorish towers , arches , peculiar windows , stained glass and sculptured embellishments , forces one to ...
... residences . The first stands about midway between Church street and the depot , and which , through a combination of semi - Moorish towers , arches , peculiar windows , stained glass and sculptured embellishments , forces one to ...
Page 43
... residences and the many trees in the whitewashed walls of the distant cemetery ; on the opposite shore , the quiet pastoral scenery surrounding several large estates ; down stream , innumerable sloops and schooners , and the saw - mills ...
... residences and the many trees in the whitewashed walls of the distant cemetery ; on the opposite shore , the quiet pastoral scenery surrounding several large estates ; down stream , innumerable sloops and schooners , and the saw - mills ...
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... residences of that part of the West End bor- dering on the water . I walked around the warehouse of the Newport News and Mississippi road , which occupies the end of this pier , and then followed down the slip used jointly by it and the ...
... residences of that part of the West End bor- dering on the water . I walked around the warehouse of the Newport News and Mississippi road , which occupies the end of this pier , and then followed down the slip used jointly by it and the ...
Page 57
... residences ) he stopped the car , alighted , and walked towards the nearest gate , evidently thinking that he had reached the cemeteries , and that it would suit his convenience to take them in first . He found that he was mistaken when ...
... residences ) he stopped the car , alighted , and walked towards the nearest gate , evidently thinking that he had reached the cemeteries , and that it would suit his convenience to take them in first . He found that he was mistaken when ...
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Norfolk, the Marine Metropolis of Virginia - And the Sound and River Cities ... George I Nowitzky No preview available - 2010 |
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