CECILIUS CALVERT, SECOND LORD BALTIMORE 49 Reproduced from an old print. ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE AND THE TREATY TREE 55 THE STATE HOUSE 57 CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON, 1737-1832 60 THE OLD HOUSE OF BURGESSES, NOW USED AS THE STATE TREASURY 61 THE BRICE HOUSE 62 THE PEGGY STEWART HOUSE 64 THE BURNING OF THE “PEGGY STEWART” 65 From the painting by Frank B. Mayer. THE NAVAL INSTITUTE 69 (Where the battle-flags are kept.) THE OLD GOVERNOR’S MANSION, NOW THE NAVAL ACADEMY LIBRARY 72 THE SEAL OF THE NAVAL ACADEMY 73 FREDERICK TOWN PROSPECT HALL. THE DULANY MANSION 81 ROSE HILL, THE HOME OF GOVERNOR THOMAS JOHNSON 86 GOVERNOR THOMAS JOHNSON AND FAMILY 89 From the painting by Charles Wilson Peale. FRANCIS SCOTT KEY 91 CHIEF JUSTICE ROGER B. TANEY 92 THE OLD REFORMED CHURCH 95 BARBARA FRIETCHIE 96 HOME OF BARBARA FRIETCHIE 97 THE HATED BRITISH TAX-STAMP, 1765-1766 99 WASHINGTON PIERRE CHARLES L’ENFANT 105 STATUE OF GEN. WINFIELD SCOTT, WASHINGTON 118 THE CAPITOL 123 From the Congressional Library. THE CITY OF WASHINGTON IN 1800 127 From an old print. THE WHITE HOUSE 129 From the northeast. STATE, WAR AND NAVY BUILDING 133 From the southeast. THE “OCTAGON HOUSE” USED BY PRESIDENT AND MRS. MADISON DURING THE REBUILDING OF THE WHITE HOUSE IN 1814 137 GRAND STAIRCASE IN THE HALL OF THE CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY 139 THE UNITED STATES TREASURY 143 From the southwest. ROTUNDA OF THE CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY, WASHINGTON 145 WASHINGTON MONUMENT 149 Looking across the “flats.” THE SEAL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 150 RICHMOND ON THE JAMES GRAVE OF POWHATAN ON THE JAMES 153