Philip and Uriah Arter Farm

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Philip and Uriah Arter Farm
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Location10 Deep Run Road W., Union Mills, Maryland
Coordinates 39°41′1.5″N76°59′53.1″W / 39.683750°N 76.998083°W / 39.683750; -76.998083 Coordinates: 39°41′1.5″N76°59′53.1″W / 39.683750°N 76.998083°W / 39.683750; -76.998083
Area205.9 acres (83.3 ha)
NRHP reference No. 06001124 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 12, 2006

Philip and Uriah Arter Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Union Mills, Carroll County, Maryland. The complex includes a frame house built about 1844, a frame bank barn built about 1888, and a deteriorated early-20th-century frame outbuilding. The house is a well-preserved example of a middling farmer's dwelling house from mid-19th-century Maryland. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. [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. Kenneth M. Short (May 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Philip and Uriah Arter Farm" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.