Nicodemus Mill Complex

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Nicodemus Mill Complex
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Location20019 Nicodemus Mill Rd., Keedysville, Maryland
Coordinates 39°28′34″N77°40′24″W / 39.47611°N 77.67333°W / 39.47611; -77.67333 Coordinates: 39°28′34″N77°40′24″W / 39.47611°N 77.67333°W / 39.47611; -77.67333
Area4.9 acres (2.0 ha)
Built1810 (1810)
Architectural styleFederal
NRHP reference No. 01000821 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 2, 2001

Nicodemus Mill Complex is a historic home and mill complex located at Keedysville, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It consists of a dated 1810 2+12-story, five-bay stone house with a mid-19th-century brick service wing, the ruins of a grist mill built about 1829, and an extensive complement of 19th-century domestic and agricultural outbuildings including a stone springhouse, stone-end bank barn, brick out kitchen, frame wash house, and a stuccoed stone secondary dwelling. It is an intact representative example of the type of farmstead characteristic of the region during the 19th century. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Paula S. Reed (February 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Nicodemus Mill Complex" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.