title: Alexandria, Virginia (Digging for the Past)
author:  Pamela J. Cressey 
description: Margaret J. Anderson lives in Corvallis, Oregon. She is the author of many books for children, including Henri Fabre's Insects and biographies of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton.
zlib_text: # SEAPORT IN VIRGINIA
  
  George Washington
  
  # Seaport in Virginia
  
  ##  _George Washington's Alexandria_
  
  ##### By
  
  ### GAY MONTAGUE MOORE
  
  ship
  
  #### DRAWINGS BY WORTH BAILEY  
    
  PHOTOGRAPHS BY WALTER WILCOX
  
  THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA  
  CHARLOTTESVILLE
  
  The University Press of Virginia  
    
  Copyright © 1949 by The Rector and the Visitors of  
  the University of Virginia  
    
  Second printing 1972  
    
  SBN: 0-8139-0183-9  
    
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 73-188711  
    
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  ### TO MY HUSBAND  
    
  CHARLES BEATTY MOORE  
    
  TOGETHER WE HAVE DELVED INTO WHAT RECORDS  
  WE COULD FIND THAT MIGHT THROW UPON THE  
  SCREEN SOME SHADOW OF THOSE WHO BUILT  
  AND LIVED IN THE OLD HOUSES IN  
  ALEXANDRIA
  
  heading
  
  * * *
  
  ##  PREFACE
  
  Twenty years ago on a hot and sultry July afternoon, my husband and I started
  to Mount Vernon to spend the day. On our return to Washington, we lazily drove
  through the old and historic town of Alexandria—and bought a hou