Sarah Jane Powell Log Cabin

Last updated
Sarah Jane Powell Log Cabin
USA Maryland location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Location of Sarah Jane Powell Log Cabin in Maryland
Location2240 Maryland Route 97 Cookville.
Coordinates 39°18′33″N77°01′16″W / 39.30917°N 77.02111°W / 39.30917; -77.02111 Coordinates: 39°18′33″N77°01′16″W / 39.30917°N 77.02111°W / 39.30917; -77.02111
Area3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built1850-1859
Governing bodyPrivate

Sarah Jane Powell Log Cabin, is a historic home located at Cooksville, Howard County, Maryland, United States.

Contents

In 1850, Thomas Hood was one of three founding county commissioners of Howard County. In 1859 Thomas Hood built the log cabin on his property for his slave Sarah Jane Powell (born 1827) for her "unwavering fidelity and general moral worth as a servant". The cabin is a 3-bay-wide, 1+12-story-tall structure with a brick fireplace. Sarah Jane Powell married Alfred Dorsey, and had their first child in the cabin in 1865. In May 1869, the 1+14-acre property the cabin resided on named "Poverty Discovered" was deeded to Sarah Jane Dorsey. The cabin has been occupied by over seven generations of Dorseys, with a family graveyard located on the property. [1] The property is just north of a former crossroads town named Inwood, and adjacent to a 30-acre parcel owned by the Board of Education in the 1970s, which has not been developed. [2]

See also

Related Research Articles

Blandair

Blandair, also known as Blandair Farm, Blandair Park, and Blandair Regional Park, is 300 acres of former slave plantation located in Columbia, Maryland. The Blandair Foundation estate of Mrs. Smith was purchased by Howard County, Maryland in the late 1990s and is in the process of being developed as a regional park.

Glenelg, Maryland Unincorporated community in Maryland, United States

Glenelg is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is located in the 21737 zip code, and is part of the 410 area code. It is the home town of Glenelg High School.

Dorsey Hall United States historic place

Dorsey Hall is a historic home in Columbia, Maryland, United States. It is a six-by-one-bay, 2+12-story stucco structure with a gable roof covered with asphalt shingles. It is a well-preserved and detailed example of the vernacular dwellings of the early 19th century in Howard County and associated with the Dorsey family, one of the "first families" of the county.

Troy (Dorsey, Maryland) United States historic place

Troy, also known as Troy Hill Farm, is a historic slave plantation home located at Elkridge, Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is associated with the prominent Dorsey family of Howard County, who also built Dorsey Hall.

Waverly (Marriottsville, Maryland) United States historic place

Waverly Mansion is a historic home located at Marriottsville in Howard County, Maryland, USA. It was built circa 1756, and is a 2+12-story Federal style stone house, covered with stucco, with a hyphen and addition that date to circa 1811. Also on the property are a small 1+12-story stone overseer's cottage and a 2-story frame-and-stone barn, and the ruins of a log slave quarter.

Cooksville is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. As of 2016, the population was 631. The town was founded by Thomas Cook in 1802. The crossroads town was anchored by the Joshua Roberts Tavern, where General Lafayette visited in 1824. The inn was destroyed by fire, rebuilt, and demolished a second time. Thomas Cook exchanged his stake in Cooksville with Thomas Beale Dorsey for the 231-acre Round About Hills slave plantation. A Post Office opened on the 4th of July 1851, the same year Howard County was formed from a portion of Anne Arundel County. Roberts Inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Gray Rock (Ellicott City, Maryland)

Gray Rock is a historic plantation home located in Ellicott City, Maryland.

Oakland Manor

Oakland Manor is a Federal style stone manor house commissioned in 1810 by Charles Sterrett Ridgely in the Howard district of Anne Arundel County Maryland. The lands that became Oakland Manor were patented by John Dorsey as "Dorsey's Adventure" in 1688 which was willed to his grandson Edward Dorsey. In 1785, Luther Martin purchased properties named "Dorsey's Adventure", "Dorsey's Inheritance", "Good for Little", "Chew's Vineyard", and "Adam the First" to make the 2300 acre "Luther Martin's Elkridge Farm".

Montpelier Mansion (Fulton, Maryland) Former house in Howard County, Maryland, U.S.

Montpelier Mansion, sometimes referred to as "Montpelier I", was a house in Fulton, Maryland within Howard County, Maryland, United States. The Georgian style building was built circa 1740 and demolished following a 1994 historic survey with addendum and photos dating as late as August 1995.

Bethesda (Ellicott City, Maryland)

Bethesda is located in Ellicott City, Maryland within Howard County, Maryland, United States. The home is sometimes mistakenly referred to as "Dower House" because a small dower house exists on the property. A "dower" is a widow's share for life of her husband's estate, so a dower house is where a widowed mother would live when her son and his family inherited and moved into the main house.

Walnut Grove (Clarksville, Maryland)

Walnut Grove is a historic plantation home located in Clarksville, Maryland, Howard County, Maryland.

Roxbury Mill

Roxbury Mill is a historic flour and grist mill located in Glenwood, Howard County, Maryland, now part of the Howard County Farm Museum.

Woodlawn (Ellicott City, Maryland)

Woodlawn or Papillon was manor home in Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland in the United States.

Athol Manor

Athol is a historic slave manor and rectory located in Columbia (Simpsonville), Howard County, Maryland, U.S.

Inwood is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. The crossroads settlement was settled around Woodlawn, home of Dr. Edwin Warfield, which has been removed for the Gary J. Arthur Community Center and Cooksville Library. The town once featured a general store, blacksmith shop and residential homes. The neighborhood postal service is now consolidated around Cooksville. Inwood is a very small historic town located between Cooksville and Glenwood.

Poverty Discovered

Located Cooksville in Howard County, Maryland, United States, Poverty Discovered, "Summer Hill Farm"

Troy Park is a regional park comprising 101 acres in Elkridge, Maryland. The park is located at 6500 Mansion Lane off Washington Boulevard, near the intersection of Maryland Route 100 and I-95.

Duvalls Range

Located Glenwood in Howard County, Maryland, United States, Duvall's Range or the Steven Boone Dorsey House.

Mt. Pleasant (Woodstock, Maryland)

Mt Pleasant is a historic home and farm located in Woodstock, Howard County, Maryland. The land grant of the property was surveyed by Patuxent Ranger Thomas Browne as "Ranter's Ridge" in 1692. The farm house is built around an original log cabin. In 1838 Samuel Brown (1810-1880) aggregates properties into a 232-acre farm. This included 192 acres of the Hammonds Ridge tract from Thomas Herbert and in 1859 an additional 40 acres from his brother John from the Good Fellowship tract. During this time a second story to the log cabin and an addition on the north side was constructed. In addition to farming Samuel Brown was elected to three consecutive terms as commissioner of the Howard District of Anne Arundel County starting in 1846.

Warfields Range

Warfield's Range, also known as Philla Terra and Dr. Thomas Chew Warfield's Homestead, is a historic slave plantation home located between Laurel and Columbia in Howard County, Maryland.

References

  1. Howard's Roads to the Past. Howard County Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee, 2001. 2001. p. 72; 81.
  2. "HO-102 Sarah Jane Powell" (PDF). Retrieved 31 August 2014.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)