Cherry Grove, HO-1

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Cherry Grove, HO-1
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Location 2937 Jennings Chapel Road, Woodbine, Maryland
Coordinates 39°17′39.3786″N77°05′37.7262″W / 39.294271833°N 77.093812833°W / 39.294271833; -77.093812833 Coordinates: 39°17′39.3786″N77°05′37.7262″W / 39.294271833°N 77.093812833°W / 39.294271833; -77.093812833
Area 12.1 acres (4.9 ha)
Built 1798 (1798)
NRHP reference # 07000567 [1]
Added to NRHP June 21, 2007

Cherry Grove, also known as "Fredericksburg" is a historic home and farm located at Woodbine, Howard County, Maryland, United States. The home is considered the seat of the Warfield family of Maryland. [2]

Woodbine, Maryland Unincorporated community in Maryland

Woodbine is an unincorporated rural community in Howard and Carroll counties, Maryland, United States. It is part of the Baltimore metropolitan area. It is located southeast of Frederick, west of Baltimore, north of Washington, D.C., and east of Mount Airy. The community was named for the woodbine plant, which grew in the community in fields and along riverbanks.

Howard County, Maryland County in the United States

Howard County is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 census, the population was 287,085. Its county seat is Ellicott City.

Maryland State of the United States of America

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. The state's largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State. It is named after the English queen Henrietta Maria, known in England as Queen Mary.

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The multi-part house was built by captain Benjamin Warfield starting after 1766 after acquiring a 550-acre land grant from Henry Griffith named "Fredricksburg". The complex includes a ca. 1798 log ground barn, an 1860-1890 frame wagon shed with corn crib, an early-20th century frame water tower, frame ground barn with cantilevered forebay, frame shed, frame dairy barn, concrete silo, concrete block dairy, and several frame shelter sheds. The buildings are located on a generally flat site surrounded by gently rolling terrain and are set well back from the road along a gravel drive that winds through the center of the farm. [3] The J.P Tarenz log house was a log slave quarters built around 1768 that was relocated offsite after the civil war to accommodate freed slaves. [4] The remains of Maryland's 45th Governor Edwin Warfield (1848–1920), are buried onsite in the family cemetery. [5] [6]

Edwin Warfield American politician

Edwin Warfield, a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 45th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1904 to 1908.

The property was owned by Arthur G. Nichols Jr. and wife in 1976 and was subdivided down to 338 acres. [7]

Cherry Grove was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal and nsa list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

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Sunnyside (Woodbine, Maryland) historic slave plantation home in Woodbine, Maryland, United States

Sunnyside or Sunnyside Farms is a historic slave plantation home located in Woodbine, Howard County, Maryland.

Oakdale Manor

Oakdale is a historic plantation located in Daisy, (Woodbine) Howard County, Maryland, former home of Maryland Governor Edwin Warfield.

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. Seeking Freedom The History of the Underground Railroad in Howard County. p. 83.
  3. Kenneth M. Short (November 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Cherry Grove, HO-1" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  4. Seeking Freedom The History of the Underground Railroad in Howard County. p. 81.
  5. "Lovely Historic Howard Homes". The Times (Ellicott City). 31 March 1965.
  6. Celia M. Holland. Old homes and families of Howard County, Maryland: with consideration of various additional points of interest. p. 302.
  7. "HO-1" (PDF). Retrieved 19 July 2014.