The Mall in 1800
Item
Title
The Mall in 1800
Description
In this passage, Margaret Bayard Smith describes the Mall as it was when she first arrived in Washington in 1800, a plain covered in trees, shrubs, and flowers. By the time she wrote this passage in 1837, the banks of the Tiber had been transformed into the Washington Canal, and the groves had been harvested for timber for the new city.
Creator
Margaret Bayard Smith
Source
Smith, Margaret Bayard. The First Forty Years of Washington Society. Edited by Gaillard Hunt and J. Henley Smith. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1906.
Date
1837
Coverage
1800-1829
topic
building the mall
design & monuments
environment
ghost mall