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Margaret Bayard Smith

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Title
Margaret Bayard Smith
Description
Margaret Bayard Smith was a writer and a vital figure in the early social life of Washington, DC. Her letters and diaries provide some of the best descriptions of early Washington. In 1837 she recorded what the Mall looked like when she and her husband moved to Capitol Hill in 1800: "Between the foot of the hill and the broad Potomac extended a wide plain, through which the Tiber wound its way. The romantic beauty of this little stream was not then deformed by wharves or other works of art."
Creator
Margaret Bayard Smith
Source
Hunt, Gailliard, ed. The First Forty Years of Washington Society. New York: Scribner, 1906. Quotation from page 10. View original document.
Coverage
1800-1829
birthday
02/20/1778
Theme
everyday life
work & play
Item sets
Mall History Test
People
Media
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