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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: January 2, 2020
Caption: Oxon Hill Fire
Additional Description:
Destruction of an Historic Mansion in Prince George’s County.

(Special Dispatch to the Baltimore San.)

Alexandria, Va. Feb. 6. — Another one of Maryland's historic mansions has been destroyed. The spacious dwelling-house on Oxon Hill overlooking the Potomac in Prince George’s County Opposite Alexandria, caught fire In last night and was left a wreck by the flames at daybreak this morning.

This mansion has long been one of the landmarks of the neighborhood of Washington. It was built about 1750 by Rev. Addison, an Oxford man, and with the mansions of Mt. Vernon, Belvoir and the Carlisle House on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, made up the noted mansions of the neighborhood in colonial days. The Oxon Hill estate gave its name to Oxon River one of the streams of Prince George’s county. The mansion passed from the Addison family into the hands of the late Thomas Berry, and had lately been sold.

Baltimore Sun article on the fire that destroyed Oxon Hill Manor in 1895.Close-up of image on marker
Submitted: January 9, 2020, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p507158
File Size: 1.673 Megabytes

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