| Pleasant Fields | |
|---|---|
| Alternative names | Henry Chew Gaither House [1] |
| General information | |
| Address | 4615 Sundown Road [2] |
| Town or city | Laytonsville, Maryland [2] |
Pleasant Fields is an historic home in Laytonsville, [1] Montgomery County, Maryland. [3] It is also known as the Henry Chew Gaither House. [1]
Laytonsville is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The population was 353 at the 2010 census. Laytonsville was incorporated in 1892.
Montgomery County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland, located adjacent to Washington, D.C. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 971,777, increasing by 8.3% to an estimated 1,052,567 in 2018. The county seat and largest municipality is Rockville, although the census-designated place of Germantown is the most populous place. Montgomery County is included in the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn forms part of the Baltimore–Washington Combined Statistical Area. Most of the county's residents live in unincorporated locales, of which the most built up are Silver Spring and Bethesda, although the incorporated cities of Rockville and Gaithersburg are also large population centers, as are many smaller but significant places.
Maryland politicians William Lingan Gaither and Henry Chew Gaither both lived here and are buried on the grounds. [1] [3]
General William Lingan Gaither was born 13 February 1813, Locust Grove, Montgomery County, Maryland. He was the only child of Henry Chew Gaither and Eliza Worthington.
Henry Chew Gaither, born January 25, 1778, to William Gaither I and Elizabeth Howard Davis served in Maryland House of Delegates from 1808 to 1810. He married Eliza Worthington and had only one child, William Lingan Gaither who served as Montgomery County's representative in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1839 to 1841.
The house has a sister house in the vicinity, built by the same builder, Ephraim Gaither. Clover Hill (Brookeville, Maryland)
Clover Hill is a historic home located at Brookeville, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It is a large, 2 1⁄2-story, five bay Italianate-style residence principally built about 1857, with evidence of several earlier building campaigns, including a log dwelling from the mid 18th century. The ruins of a large bank barn and a stone springhouse stand on the property. The house was built by Ephraim Gaither, a Maryland legislator (1817–1820) and locally prominent citizen.
