Linthicum Walks

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Linthicum Walks
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Location2295 Davidsonville Road
Gambrills, Maryland 21054
Nearest city Crofton, Maryland
Coordinates 38°59′56″N76°40′15″W / 38.99889°N 76.67083°W / 38.99889; -76.67083 Coordinates: 38°59′56″N76°40′15″W / 38.99889°N 76.67083°W / 38.99889; -76.67083
Area5.2 acres (2.1 ha)
NRHP reference No. 84001344 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 9, 1984

Linthicum Walks is a historic home and farm complex at Crofton, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA. It consists of a 19th-century frame dwelling (part of which may be 18th century), a mid-19th century meathouse, a frame pre-1815 tobacco barn and a family cemetery dating to the mid 19th century.

The complex is representative of the vernacular architecture of rural Tidewater Maryland of the late 18th through mid 19th centuries. [2] The tobacco house is especially noteworthy, as one of only three pre-1815 tobacco houses surviving in the county. [2] [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]

The arboretum at Historic Linthicum Walks was accredited as an ArbNet Level 1 Arboretum in August 2016. [4] [5] Highlights are the Cedrus atlantica (Blue Atlas cedar) and Cryptomeria japonica (Japanese cedar), [4] plus specimens including Chinese elm, dogwood, holly, magnolia and maple. [5]

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  2. 1 2 "Linthicum Walks". Maryland's National Register Properties. Maryland Historical Trust, Maryland Department of Planning. 2015. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
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  4. 1 2 "Historic Linthicum Walks Arboretum". ArbNet. The Morton Arboretum . Retrieved October 16, 2017.
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