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: I submitted a response to your question about
: Sunnyside several weeks ago, but I
: discovered, looking at the website today,
: that it was somehow not recorded, so I
: assume that you never got it. Yes, Shannon
: (the Rambler) did include a photograph of
: Sunnyside in his column in the 9 January
: 1916 Washington Evening Star. I have not
: had a chance to look it up, but will hope to
: before too long. Perhaps you will have a
: chance before that, to see just what the
: Rambler says about Sunnyside. Sunnyside was
: the home of Alonzo Berry (1828-1896) in the
: 1850s and 1860s, and was located on the
: north side of what is now Central Avenue,
: about 2 miles east of the eastern point of
: the District of Columbia. (There were many
: Berry family plantations in this area.)
: Alonzo Berry left Prince George's County
: after the Civil War, and I'm not sure what
: happened to his handsome house - it was not
: recorded in the Historic American Buildings
: Survey of the 1930s, but I think I can see
: it on the first aerial photographs of the
: area (1938), and possibly in the 1965
: aerials. It must have been destroyed around
: that time - the area where Sunnyside stood,
: approximately the 7800 block of Central
: Avenue, is densely developed now.
:
: If you get a chance to check the Rambler
: files at the Historical Society of
: Washington, or the Evening Star microfilms
: at the Library of Congress or the University
: of Maryland, before I do, I hope you will
: let me know what you find.
:
: Susan G. Pearl, Historian
: Prince George's County Historical
: Society
:
: --Previous Message--
: I see that the Rambler (J. Harry Shannon)
: took
: photos of a Berry property at Sunnyside.
: Where is that?
:
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