Woods Mill Farm

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Woods Mill Farm
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Location11210 Cash Smith Road, Woodsboro, Maryland
Coordinates 39°32′31.7″N77°18′06.5″W / 39.542139°N 77.301806°W / 39.542139; -77.301806 Coordinates: 39°32′31.7″N77°18′06.5″W / 39.542139°N 77.301806°W / 39.542139; -77.301806
Area25 acres (10 ha)
Built1770 (1770)
Architectural styleGeorgian
NRHP reference No. 07000812 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 15, 2007

Woods Mill Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Woodsboro, Frederick County, Maryland. It includes the Colonel Joseph Wood House and associated buildings. The house is an unusual example of an 18th-century brick, Georgian style manor house, built about 1770. It is a two-story brick dwelling with a hipped roof and inside end chimneys. The property also includes two distinctive outbuildings: a two-story, two-room stone and brick smokehouse with a gable roof and a brick end barn built about 1830. The original owner of this property was Col. Joseph Wood, founder of Woodsberry (now Woodsboro). [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [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 and Edie Wallace (May 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Woods Mill Farm" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.