By: Lawrence Bopp On the 6th of November 1860, Lewis and Ella Washington were wed at her family residence of Clover Lea in Mechanicsburg, Virginia. Shortly thereafter, they moved to Beallair in Jefferson County to establish their home together. We know Lewis and Ella were distant cousins; Lewis was George Washington’s great-grandnephew and Ella a… Read more »
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On this day in 1901 (also a Thursday!) you could get your ticket at Charles Washington Hall to see scenes from the Spanish American War and other "pictures" on "Edison's Marvelous Projectoscope." Projectoscopes were an early form of motion picture technology with which sequential images were moved in front of a light source at a high speed. This broadside, one of the newest additions to our collection, is advertising scenes ranging from benign to very violent, but children could attend for just 10 cents!![]()
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