By untouched, I mean the building is still intact, relics from the Civil War era still lying around, and the supposed ghost of Clara Barton tapping a contractor on the shoulder. The building, profiled on page one of the Metro Section in the Washington Post, talks about a carpenter walking into the 1853 boarding house, hearing obvious sounds, and being tapped on the shoulder, looking up and seeing an access he had not seen to Civil War relics in the attic including a sign advertising Miss Clara Barton and her "Missing Soldier's Office."
The D.C., Northern Virginia, and Suburban Maryland area is just flooded with this nation's history. I live within three miles of a handful of historic sites from the era and slightly further from history dating from the Revolutionary War. As I drive around I often find myself on one of the roads that are noted by the state as a "Civil War Trail." A week or so ago, I mentioned St. Mary of Sorrows in Fairfax, Virginia where Clara Barton nursed wounded soldiers. Miss Barton also spent the remaining 15 years of her life in a quaint town in Maryland known as Glen Echo. Glen Echo is an interesting area itself with an historic amusement park from the Victorian Era (1891) known as Glen Echo Park. I thought the article on the boarding house, that might just become a museum, was very interesting. One, if not the only, remaining boarding houses in the District of Columbia, and certainly one of historical importance. I hope you enjoy the article.
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