Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site

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Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site
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Location1416 Telegraph Rd., Rising Sun, Maryland
Coordinates 39°42′13″N76°0′15″W / 39.70361°N 76.00417°W / 39.70361; -76.00417 Coordinates: 39°42′13″N76°0′15″W / 39.70361°N 76.00417°W / 39.70361; -76.00417
Area30 acres (12 ha)
Built1734 (1734)
Built byBrown, Jeremiah, Sr.; Reese, Morris
NRHP reference No. 87001391 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 2, 1987

Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site is a Colonial-era mill complex and national historic district at Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland, United States. It consists of two distinct halves: a two-story, three-bay, gable-roofed stone structure built in 1757 by Jeremiah Brown, Sr., a Quaker from Pennsylvania; and a two-story, two-bay gable-roofed frame house built in 1904 by John Clayton on the site of the original 1702 log wing. Also on the property is a small 19th century bank barn; a reconstruction of the original mill built on top of the stone foundations of the 1734 Brown Water Corn and Gristmill; and the foundations of an 18th-century saw mill. [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] The entire site is located within the grounds of the Plumpton Park Zoo.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Geoffrey B. Henry (1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.