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Long Old Fields
Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: May 25, 2014
Caption: Long Old Fields
Additional Description: "[Brigadier] General Winder retired...to a place called Old Fields, which covered equally Bladensburg and the bridges on the Eastern Branch, and Fort Washington." - Secretary of State James Monroe, November 13, 1814.
Close-up of Lossing's 1850 Map on marker

Submitted: May 26, 2014, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p274244
File Size: 2.295 Megabytes

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