Mount Pleasant

by Mara Cherkasky

Book Overview

Mount Pleasant--Samuel P. Brown must have thought the name perfect when he chose it for his country estate on a wooded hill overlooking Washington City.

The name Mount Pleasant suited the New Englanders who settled in the village that Brown founded near Fourteenth Street and Park Road just after the Civil War. Around 1900, the once-isolated village began its transformation into a fashionable suburb after the city extended Sixteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073854406X
• ISBN13: 9780738544069
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.8" x 9.2"