The Mall in 1800

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

Date

1837

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.

Coverage

1800-1829

Theme

building the mall

design & monuments

environment

ghost mall