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- 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ↑ "Nottingham Site". Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
- ↑ Hall, Clayton Colman (1912). Baltimore: Its History and Its People, vol.3. Lewis Historical Publishing Co. pp. 300–301.
