Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1902 — Projected Seat of Government. [ARTICLE]

Projected Seat of Government.

Mrs. Manderson, of Omaha, is the possessor of an old plate, perhaps the only one of the kind in existence, which confirms the statement that there was an effort made to locate the national capitol on George Washington’s estate. In her letter to Mrs. Justine V. R. Townsend, regent of the Mount Vernon Association of the Union, Mrs. Manderson says: “I ask the acceptance of a small plate that came to me from an ancestor on the paternal side. Experts believe that it is unique, and that all others like it were destroyed. It Is of common stone ware, known nt the time of its manufacture as semi-china. The face of the plate has a representation of the capitol building, very similar to the first capitol erected at Washington, which was destroyed by the British during the war of 1812. On the back of the plate is the Inscription: ‘Mount Vernon, the seat of government of the United States.’ ”