Note well the sales pitch for real estate in Prince George's County has changed little ...
For Sale
About
2000 acres of land on the East side of the Eastern Branch, and adjoining it,
three miles from the City of Washington,
Vessels, drawing twelve feet water, may load at the landing, where there
is tolerably good fishery.
Near 400
acres of the land is a rich bottom, through which there are several streams of
water, that turn a mill erected on the land, and which might be used to advantage
in watering meadow [ ] a part of the bottom is now in Timothy grass and the
whole is capable of producing grass in abundance and Tobacco. There may be between 500 and 600 acres in
wood, the rest is cleared land. A part
of the land adjoins a commodious brick dwelling house, with all convenient out
houses and a large and handsome garden, but not in good repair, on the borders
of the town of Bladensburg.
This
property so convenient to the City of Washington, which affords a market for
grass and all other products of land, equal to any in the United States; so
certain from its situation to rise in a few years, to a price several times as
high as will now be taken for it, well deserves the attention of men of
fortune. The whole land including the
dwelling house and improvements, and mill will be sold for [illegible hand written character; could be a
6; more likely the symbol for a pound sterling: £ ]10 per acre. It is questionable whether the meadow ground
alone is not worth all the money; it is certain that it might easily be made to
pay more than the annual interest of the whole purchase. [1]
BEN.
STODDERT.
George
Town, Nov. 15th 1803.
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