<p>Bethlehem Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist church located at Bethlehem, Taylor&#39;s Island, Dorchester County, Maryland. It was built in 1857, and is a gable-front common bond brick church across the road from a mid-19th century cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The Gothic Revival Victorian church has an octagonal belfry above which is an octagonal dome with a spire superimposed and covered in copper, making it look like an inverted ice cream cone. It is the best example of a mid-19th century Methodist chapel in Dorchester County and retains its original interior.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Athol is a historic home located at Henderson, Caroline County, Maryland. It is a -story single-pile brick dwelling built around 1825 by William Jones. It has several characteristics common to the few remaining early-19th-century brick three-bay-wide houses of modest size on the Eastern Shore of Maryland: Flemish bond facade, common bond on the sides and rear, chimneys at each end of a gable roof, and Federal stylistic influence.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Castle Hall  is a historic home, formerly part of a larger farm of the same name. The home itself is on a 5.739 acre parcel that was subdivided from the farm in the late 20th century. The surrounding farm, still used for agricultural purposes, is located in Goldsboro, Caroline County, Maryland, and covers 676 acres. The main structure is a three-part "telescope" house, so called because it was built in stages, with each successive addition being smaller than the previous one. The original -story portion is the largest of the three parts and stands at the northeast end. The smallest of the three parts is constructed of both wood framing and brick, unlike the rest of the structure which is almost entirely brick. It was built by Thomas Hardcastle in 1781.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Willow Grove is a historic home located at Greensboro, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is one of the few Georgian-style houses in Caroline County that were constructed between 1780 and 1790. It is a two-story brick house covered with a thin coat of stucco, measuring 37 feet long and 34 feet deep. It was built by Matthew Driver, Jr., who with three other members from Caroline County ratified the United States Constitution at the State Convention in 1788.</p><br>
<p>Willow Grove was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Landmark Inn State Historic Site is a historic inn in Castroville, Texas, United States. It serves the general public as both a state historic site and inn eight overnight rooms.</p><br>
<p>Cesar and Hannah Monod, Swiss immigrants, arrived in Indianola, Texas in the 1830s and settled in Castroville, Texas above a busy crossing on the Medina River in 1849. They constructed a one-story limestone building used as a residence and a general store. They also built a detached commercial kitchen that was the working and living space for their enslaved woman and enslaved infant. In 1850, he bought the adjacent lot with a small house built by immigrants Michel and Rosine Simon in 1847.</p><br>
<p>John and Rowena Vance purchased Monods property in 1853 and added an ell wing to the general store to better serve travelers on the Old San Antonio Road that passed through Castroville on the way west to Eagle Pass, El Paso, and points beyond. In 1859, the Vances added a personal residence, which was the largest in Castroville at the time, and converted Simons small house into a wash house for use in both bathing and clothes washing. As the town grew and traffic on the road increased after the Civil War, the Vances added a second story to the store building in 1874 to provide rooms for overnight guests.</p><br>
<p>In 1854, the Vances sold the riverfront portion of his property to George L. Haass and Laurent Quintle, who built a dam on the river and constructed a water-powered grist mill to process grain and gin cotton for local farmers. Joseph and Margarethe Courand, immigrants to Texas from Alsace, bought the mill in 1876 and made substantial improvements to it before his death three years later. When Joseph Jr. and Julia Courand took over from his parents, the mill was processing lumber, cotton, wheat, and over a million bushels of corn per year starting in the 1880s. The mill was the industrial center of Castroville until the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The Courands bought the Vance property in 1899 from John and Rowena&#39;s children and converted the 1859 Vance residence into a warehouse. The Vance Hotel was rented periodically but was otherwise not maintained as it had been in the past. The Courands moved to San Antonio in 1903 but continued to manage the property and a separate general store on the town square in Castroville.</p><br>
<p>Not willing to update technology in the early 1920s, the Courands posted the entire property for sale. Jordan T. Lawler bought the Courand property in 1925 and converted the mill to a hydroelectric plant to provide Castroville with electricity for the first time. In 1927, the Lawler siblings Jordan (1879-1970), Henry (1881-1967), and (1900-1990), along with their mother Carrie and Henry&#39;s family relocated to Castroville. Another sister, C. Genevieve Lawler (1891-1976), relocated in 1952 to Castroville with her partner Mary Ruth Lionberger (1900-1987). The historic hotel re-opened as the Landmark Inn on July 4, 1942, primarily serving military personnel between the air bases in San Antonio and Hondo. Ruth Lawler had the property designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1965 and designated as a contributing property in the surrounding Castroville Historic District in 1970. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in its own right in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>State Historic Site</h2><br>
<p>In 1974, the property was donated to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), which conducted extensive archaeological investigations and made significant repairs and improvements before opening the property to the public as a state historic site on October 25, 1981. TPWD also had the property designated as a Texas State Antiquities Landmark in 1983. On January 1, 2008, the site was transferred from TPWD to the Texas Historical Commission, which completed a two-year renovation and historic preservation project in December 2015. Tours, programs, and special events are offered regularly for visitors to the site. A new museum exhibit was installed in April 2017. and the San Antonio Conservation Society were recognized with awards in 2018 for the historic preservation work accomplished.</p><br>
<h2>Hotel</h2><br>
<p>In addition to serving as a state historic site, the Landmark Inn is also a hotel with eight rooms or overnight stays. The guest rooms are furnished with antiques and historical reproductions that are representative of the 1850s, 1880s, and 1920s, depending on the room. While the rooms have furnishings that reinforce the historical interpretation of the site, they also have modern conveniences, such as electricity, indoor plumbing, and climate control systems. Televisions and radios are not provided but free Wi-Fi is available.</p><br>
<p>Simpson Creek Covered Bridge is located in Bridgeport, West Virginia, crossing Simpson Creek off Meadowbrook Road near the entrance to the Meadowbrook Mall. The 14.25 ft, 75 ft multiple-kingpost truss bridge was built in 1881 by Asa Hugill. The current location of the bridge is not the original location. It was washed out by a flood in July 1889 and later relocated to its current location a half-mile upstream from its original spot. The Simpson Creek and Fletcher Covered Bridges, are the only two remaining covered bridges in Harrison County, are examples of this truss design.</p><br>
<h2>Upgrades</h2><br>
<p>In fall of 2001, the West Virginia Division of Highways used nearly $400,000 to renovate the Simpson Creek Covered Bridge. The improvements include a new timber deck, wooden exterior siding and a fresh coat of paint.</p><br>
<p>Daffin House is a historic home located at Hillsboro, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is a large, 2½-story brick structure built about 1780. Attached is a two-part, 1½-story Flemish bond brick wing built in 1760, with a dormered gable roof. It was constructed by Charles Daffin who received a patent for the land in 1784 under the name of Daffin&#39;s Farm.</p><br>
<p>Future president Andrew Jackson met Charles Dickinson here in 1796. Jackson would later kill Dickinson in a duel at Adairville, Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>Daffin House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Exeter is a historic home located at Federalsburg, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is composed of two distinct sections constructed during the 19th century. The front section is a three-bay wide, two-story frame structure covered with cypress shingles. Behind it is a -story frame wing, four bays long, covered with beaded weatherboard. Outbuildings include a brick meathouse and frame milkhouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Oak Lawn is a historic home located at Ridgely, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is a large rectangular -story brick structure with an arched brick colonnade connecting the two-story brick kitchen wing. The main house was erected in 1783 and the kitchen and arcade added before 1798. In the mid 19th century, it was owned by Greenbury Ridgely, the founder of the town of Ridgely.</p><br>
<p>Oak Lawn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Potter Hall is a historic home located at Williston, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is an early-19th-century, Federal-influenced house facing the Choptank River. The house was constructed in three sections: a tall -story Flemish bond brick structure built about 1808 adjoining a lower -story, two-bay-wide central section built about 1750, also of Flemish bond brick, then a frame single-story kitchen wing added in 1930. Each of the three sections has a gable roof. Potter Hall was originally settled by Zabdiel Potter, who in the mid-18th century built a wharf and the small brick house. He developed Potter&#39;s Landing into a key early port for the shipping of tobacco to Baltimore.</p><br>
<p>Potter Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Leonard House, also known as the Second Methodist Church Parsonage, is a historic home located at Greensboro, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is a small, -story frame dwelling with Greek Revival–influenced decorative detailing. It was constructed about 1832 presumably as the parsonage for the second Methodist church in Greensboro. The house has evidence suggestive of segregated access to servant&#39;s quarters in the loft of the wing.</p><br>
<p>The Leonard House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Neck Meetinghouse and Yard, also known as the Quaker Meetinghouse and Graveyard, is a historic Quaker meetinghouse located at West Denton, Caroline County, Maryland. It is a one-story rectangular frame building with a pitched gable roof measuring 30 feet, 8 inches long and 20 feet, 5 inches deep. In the graveyard are six marked burials with stones dating from the 1850s to 1890, with some more recent interments. It is the only extant Friends meeting house in Caroline County, and one of only a few still standing on the Eastern Shore. The meeting house was utilized from September 26, 1802, when the first meeting was held in the building, until it was abandoned in 1890 for lack of funds and participants.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Saving the Meetinghouse</h2><br>
<p>With Quakers moving away or joining other meetings, Tuckahoe Neck quickly fell into disrepair. In 1930, a few of the former members made an attempt at limited repairs, but once again it was left to deteriorate. By 2002, the building was in a terrible condition with extensive termite damage. Major restoration work took place over the next two years. This included new footing and brick piers, replacement of termite damaged sills, and floor joists with new beams and joists being installed, and a new shingle roof added.</p><br>
<p>As had occurred in the past, there was no regular maintenance, and by 2017 more repairs were needed. The east end of the building required the most attention, and was repaired by the summer of 2019. However, there was no plan to address the need for repair of the other three sides or to establish a plan for regular maintenance. As a result, a few individuals came forward with a fundraising plan to restore the building, but also to establish a trust to provide perpetual care.</p><br>
<p>The Denton Armory is a historic armory located at Denton, Caroline County, Maryland.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It is a two-story brick structure with a full basement, completed in 1938. Its basic structure was designed in the PWA Moderne style, with numerous historicist Gothic Revival architectural elements.</p><br>
<p>It is important for its association with the reorganization and expansion of the USA National Guard system in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>It currently houses the General James F. Fretterd Community Center of Caroline County, used for county-sponsored services including the county Recreation and Parks Department staff headquarters, and is also available by reservation for community events.</p><br>
<h3>Landmark</h3><br>
<p>The Denton Armory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Denton Schoolhouse is a historic school located at Denton, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is a small building with a Latin cross plan and several features of the Gothic Revival style, built about 1883. On the roof ridge is an octagonal cupola with a belfry of alternating louvered and plain drop-arched panels, with a cut wooden spire on top.</p><br>
<p>The Denton Schoolhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>West Denton Warehouse-Wharf is a historic warehouse located at West Denton, Caroline County, Maryland. It is an early-20th century timber-framed warehouse structure situated along the west bank of the upper Choptank River. The earliest section was built about 1850, and is the 40 foot x 100 foot center portion. The north  and south  additions were built in the 1940s. It is a representative example of a type of structure which served various functions in connection with waterborne commerce, and is one of only two remaining riverfront warehouses in Maryland.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Denton Historic District is a national historic district in Denton, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is located on the flat land along the south bank of the Choptank River. The west end of the district focuses on the courthouse square, which was laid out in the 1790s, with its late 19th century courthouse building and square faced on all sides by noteworthy residences and commercial structures. The historic commercial district extends east of the square along Market Street. It comprises a notable collection of two-story brick storefronts and one-story concrete block commercial structures, with frame residences representing late-19th / early-20th century forms interspersed among them.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Williston Mill Historic District is a national historic district in Denton, Caroline County, Maryland, in the United States. It consists of two historic structures—a grist mill and a millers house—which share the acreage with the mill stream and race that empties into Mill Creek, a tributary of the Choptank River. The Williston millers house is a two-story, four-bay single-pile frame dwelling, built originally between 1840 and 1850 with later 19th century expansions. The mill building dates from around 1830–1840, with the two-story section built around 1895. It is one of two grist mills that remain standing in Caroline County.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>An early morning fire on June 26, 2014, destroyed most of the grist mill. In 2015 it was decided that the grist mill would not be rebuilt.</p><br>
<p>The Decatur Waterworks was a facility that obtained drinking water for the city of Decatur, Georgia, from the local Peachtree Creek and Burnt Fork Creek. Completed in 1907 and abandoned since the 1940s, the Waterworks have fallen into disrepair and are covered with graffiti. The Decatur Waterworks are in Mason Mill Park, near the city of Decatur.</p><br>
<h2>Historical designation</h2><br>
<p>On March 15, 2006, the Decatur Waterworks was added to the National Register of Historic Places, due to its former industrial significance as a water works, its political importance as Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, and its use as a public park.</p><br>
<h2>History of the Decatur Water Works</h2><br>
<p>Near Decatur Georgia, before the Civil War, in the 1850s, Ezekiel Mason built a flour mill on the bank of Burnt Fork Creek near where it flows into the south fork of Peachtree Creek. This is the mill from which Mason Mill Road and Mason Mill Park derive their names. After the deaths of Mr. Mason and his wife in the late 19th century the land was transferred to J. A. Mason, relationship unknown. The provenance of the property becomes unclear at that point as the DeKalb Historical Society notes show that the J. A. Mason sold the property to the City of Decatur, but Decatur City Council Minutes refer to the property as the "Tallery property", and an option was exercised with C. H. Talley for the purchase of land in October 1906. In any case, records show that a waterworks construction project was completed on the property by December 1907.</p><br>
<p>By 1939, the Decatur Water Works consisted of two aeration and solid removal tanks, two storage tanks, an office building and two dams, one dam on South Peachtree Creek and one on Burnt Fork Creek. The remains of all of these structures can still be seen today and are often referred as ‘the old Decatur Water Works’.</p><br>
<p>The Decatur Water Works supplied water to the city until the 1940s. Its use as a public park began in the 1930s when a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project built a number of recreational amenities on the site. These amenities included granite benches, cooking grills, tables and a stone bridge over Burnt Fork Creek. These things also can be seen today. The stone bridge is part of the new trail that has been recently constructed in the park. The WPA also built a stacked stone fountain that remains and can be seen very near the stone bridge.</p><br>
<p>By 1941 it was apparent the 1.8 e6USgal of water per day produced by the water works was no longer enough to satisfy the growing needs of Decatur. The property was leased to DeKalb County, which operated the water works and sold the water to Decatur. DeKalb used revenue from the facility to fund a county-wide treatment plant in the Dunwoody area that uses water from the Chattahoochee River. Initially called the Laurel Plant, it is now called the Scott Candler Plant after the county commissioner who led the development process.</p><br>
<p>During World War II the Decatur Water Works was used as the exclusive water supply for the Naval Air Station that is now Peachtree DeKalb Airport and an Army Hospital in the area. The property was declared off limits for civilian use and was not used for any recreational purpose or as a civilian water supply during the war. At the end of the war the water works land was returned to the City of Decatur and continued to be operated and maintained by the county as a backup for the new water system. The park area was not maintained and was not used by the public.</p><br>
<p>For a time the office building at the water works was used for storage by the county. In 1951 a bond issue to finance development of the land was voted down. The water works fell into disuse and disrepair. By the mid-1960s the lakes had begun to fill with silt and there were complaints of flooding from local residents who lived in the adjacent neighborhoods that were built in the 1950s and 1960s. In about 1965 the dams were dynamited and the reservoirs drained.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>In 1988 the county worked with local resident groups to make a development plan for Mason Mill Park that included the water works land, but the plan was never funded. In 2006 the Decatur Water Works was declared a historic site. A second plan was developed in 2008 and, with partial funding from the PATH Foundation, is being implemented.</p><br>
<p>Dale&#39;s Right is a historic home located near Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It is one of the few houses which falls under the strict definition of a telescope house, where each section is narrower and shorter than the previous one. Each of the three sections appears to date from the first third of the 19th century, about 1830 to 1840, and they are two, one and a half, and one stories, respectively.</p><br>
<p>Dale&#39;s Right was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Friendship Hall is a historic home located at East New Market, Dorchester County, Maryland. It is a Georgian-style brick dwelling. It consists of a large five-bay, two-story main block built about 1790; a two-bay one-story passage; and a -story kitchen wing. Also on the property is a tall frame smokehouse with board-and-batten siding and a steep gable roof. It is associated with the locally prominent Sulivane family, who first came to Maryland in 1695.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Glasgow is a historic home located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland. It is a Federal style, gable-front, -story brick house built about 1792. Attached is a -story frame wing dating from the early 20th century. Local history sometimes holds that the home was the birthplace of William Vans Murray, but land records and Murray&#39;s biographical data both indicate that it is unlikely that it was ever his home. It is possible, however, that Murray stayed there for some time after his return from his service as foreign minister in the Netherlands, with his first cousin William Murray Robertson, the owner at the time.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Handsell, also known as the Webb House, is a historic home located at Vienna, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It is a late-18th-century Georgian-style manor house. It is a -story brick structure over an English basement. The main facade is five bays wide and has a central entrance containing a double door flanked by windows. Handsell bears the name of a 1665 land grant, which has been in the Webb family since 1892.</p><br>
<p>Handsell was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Yarmouth, also known as White House Farm, Brick House Farm, and Eccleston&#39;s Hill, is a historic home located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story Flemish bond brick structure built above a high basement built about 1730. Also on the property is an 18th-century granary.</p><br>
<p>Yarmouth was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Sycamore Cottage is a historic home located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It was built possibly as early as 1765. The house is a -story gambrel-roofed frame structure. Remodelings during the 19th century include adding Victorian windows, a central Colonial Revival entrance porch, 1840s Greek Revival interior decorative detailing, and the addition of a large one-story meeting hall. It was moved to this location in 1840. Since 1922, Sycamore Cottage has been the headquarters of the Cambridge Woman&#39;s Club.</p><br>
<p>Sycamore Cottage was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>LaGrange, also known as La Grange Plantation or Meredith House, is a historic home located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1760. The house is a -story Flemish bond brick house and is one of the few remaining Georgian houses in the town. Sun porches and a frame wing were added to the main house in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Three outbuildings remain, including a late 19th-century dairy, an 18th-century smokehouse, and a 20th-century garage.</p><br>
<p>LaGrange was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>La Grange Plantation</h2><br>
<p>The Dorchester County Historical Society owns the La Grange Plantation and operates it as an open museum of local history. The different buildings include the 1760 period furnished Meredith House, exhibits on local history, agriculture, domestic life, antique transportation vehicles, and tools used by a woodworker, wheelwright and blacksmith.</p><br>
<p>Magnolia Grove is a historic Greek Revival mansion in Greensboro, Alabama.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Magnolia Grove was built in 1840 for Isaac Croom and his wife, Sarah Pearson Croom. Croom was a lawyer and planter from Lenoir County, North Carolina and one of the contributing founders of The University of the South at Sewanee. Sarah was the sister of Richmond Mumford Pearson, a prominent pro-Union politician and Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.</p><br>
<p>Isaac Croom died in 1863, with Sarah following him in 1878. They left no living children, so the estate passed to Sarah C. Pearson, the daughter of Richmond Mumford Pearson. She married James M. Hobson, also of North Carolina, who eventually served as probate judge of Hale County for over twenty years. The Hobson family moved to Greensboro and raised four sons and three daughters at Magnolia Grove.</p><br>
<p>The Hobsons&#39; most famous offspring was Richmond Pearson Hobson, a naval hero of the Spanish–American War. Hobson resigned from active naval duty in 1903 to begin a career as a Democratic USA Representative from Alabama. He served from March 4, 1907, until March 3, 1915, and during that time proposed more than 20 constitutional amendments to ban alcohol. He was denied the Democratic nomination in 1916 to the 65th Congress. He then organized the American Alcohol Education Association in 1921, organized the International Narcotic Education Association in 1923, organized the World Conference on Narcotic Education in 1926, and founded the World Narcotic Defense Association in 1927. These activities have caused some to label him the "Father of American Prohibition".</p><br>
<p>On January 22, 1942, the Gleaves-class destroyer USS Hobson, was commissioned in his honor posthumously. Magnolia Grove was dedicated as a state shrine in his honor on May 1, 1947.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Magnolia Grove is a relatively rare Alabama example of a full-scale pedimented temple-form house in the Greek Revival style. It is a two-story masonry structure, built in handmade brick. The front facade is stuccoed, including the pediment. The sides and rear are left with the brick face exposed.</p><br>
<p>The front facade features a monumental hexastyle portico with Doric columns. These support a plain entablature with a simple molding dividing the architrave and frieze. Above a simple cornice, the unadorned pediment is framed by horizontal and raking geisons. Behind the portico, the building is divided into a five bay facade. The central bay is occupied by doorways on both floors, with simply molded windows occupying the remaining bays to either side. Both door surrounds are Greek Revival, these are inset with double doors, surrounded by sidelights and topped by a transom. The upper doorway opens onto a cantilevered balcony. The lower windows are floor-to-ceiling and open onto the portico, while the upper windows are six-over-six. The rear of the building also has a two-story portico, but here it is supported by six slender cast-iron columns.</p><br>
<p>The interior features plaster cornice moldings and Greek Revival door and window surrounds. Both floors are evenly divided by a central hall running from front to back. The first floor contains a parlor, living room, dining room, and study. A separate two-story brick building to the rear of the main house contained the original kitchen and servant&#39;s quarters. A cantilevered staircase with mahogany treads and railing climbs from the rear of the hall to the second floor. This level contains a central hall and four bedrooms.</p><br>
<p>Annie Oakley House is a historic home located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland. It is a -story, brick-and-frame, Colonial Revival–influenced bungalow constructed in 1913. Behind the house is a small garage and studio apartment. The house overlooks Hambrooks Bay, a protected body of water off the Choptank River. It was constructed as a retirement home for Annie Oakley and her husband, Frank Butler, and is the only surviving property in the nation that was either owned or occupied by Oakley as her primary and permanent residence. It features built-in shelves originally intended to display shooting trophies.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Rehoboth, also known as Turpin Place or Lee Mansion, is a historic home located at Eldorado, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story Flemish bond brick house. A chimney rises flush with the one gable end, and a -story frame kitchen wing is attached to the other end. The interior of the house was gutted by fire in October 1916, and rebuilt. It was the family home of the second elected Governor of Maryland, Thomas Sim Lee.</p><br>
<p>Rehoboth was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Stanley Institute, also known as Rock School, is a historic African American school building located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland. It is a rectangular one-story, gable-front frame building with a small entrance vestibule built about 1865. Three original blackboards still occupy their proper locations. The building was moved to its present location from a site near Church Creek in 1867. It served as both a church and a school until the erection of the present Rock Methodist Church later in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Glen Oak Hotel is a historic hotel building located at Hurlock, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It is a three-story frame building constructed about 1890. A two-story porch with Tuscan columns spans the south facade. The hotel was one of the first buildings constructed in the town, and functioned as a commercial and social center, serving salesmen who traveled by rail.</p><br>
<p>The Glen Oak Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Dorchester County Courthouse and Jail is a historic courthouse building located at Cambridge, the county seat of Dorchester County, Maryland. It is an Italianate influenced, painted brick structure, which was enlarged and extensively remodeled with Georgian Revival decorative detailing in the 1930s. The building entrance is flanked on the north by a three-story tower. It was constructed in 1853, and is the only courthouse designed by Richard Upjohn in Maryland.</p><br>
<p>The County Jail, which stood to the southeast of the courthouse from about 1882 until its demolition in 1994, was a Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival style granite structure with brick and terra cotta features. The jail was the work of the Baltimore architect, Charles L. Carson.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Ridgeton Farm is a historic home located at Taylors Island, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It is an Italianate style, two story home built about 1857-1860 by the local architect Fred Ridgeton, who was quite unknown in the region. The house features a hip roof with a center gable, a widows walk, and two huge interior chimneys. The property also includes a complex of 19th century barn and sheds.</p><br>
<p>Ridgeton Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Cambridge Historic District, Wards I and III is a national historic district in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland. It is a large residential, commercial, and governmental area in the northwest section of the city. It consists of buildings from the late 18th through the mid 20th century. Residential building styles include Georgian, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and American Foursquare. The district includes the Italian Villa style courthouse designed by Richard Upjohn.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Waldomore, also known as The Waldomore, is a two-story Neo-Classical brick mansion located in the Clarksburg Downtown Historic District of Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 4, 1978. The building is currently operated by the Clarksburg public library that is located in a larger building next door. Waldomore is now the repository for materials relating to the state&#39;s culture and history as well as the books and papers of notorious UFO writer Gray Barker. It also has a collection of resources for genealogical research.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Waldomore was constructed in late 1839 for Waldo P. Goff, a prominent lawyer and politician on part of a 4 acre tract that extended from Pike Street to Elk Creek. The structure&#39;s name was coined by combining the names of the original owners Waldo Goff and his wife Harriet L. Moore. The Waldomore was added to The National Register of Historic Places in 1978. This classical revival structure was the home of Waldo Goff and his family.</p><br>
<p>The Waldomore was donated to the City of Clarksburg by May Goff Lowndes (Mrs. Richard T. Lowndes) in 1930 on the condition that it was to be used as a public library or museum and for no other purpose. It served as the Clarksburg Public Library from 1931 to 1976 when the new library was constructed next door on the same property.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Waldomores exterior unfolds like a timeless tapestry, where brick and stone intertwine in harmonious elegance. Four stately Ionic columns, their pristine white a captivating contrast to the warm hues of the brick, anchor a grand portico, the heart of the facade. Delicate moldings and intricate brickwork dance across the surfaces, adding depth and texture to the composition. Large windows with black shutters flank the portico, like watchful eyes peering out, while a wrought-iron balcony on the second floor whispers tales of bygone eras. The hipped roof, adorned with dormers, completes the harmonious tableau, echoing the grace of a Palladian villa. Standing as a silent sentinel in Clarksburg, the Waldomores exterior reflects the affluence and refined taste of the 19th century. Its enduring beauty continues to captivate visitors and locals alike, a testament to the enduring power of architectural artistry.</p><br>
<h3>Goff Family</h3><br>
<p>The home was constructed in 1839 for Waldo P. Goff. Goff was born in 1796, the fifth son of Job and Zerviah Goff who moved to Harrison County in 1804 from New York. Of the eight children born to this family, four sons eventually served in the Virginia State Legislators of Virginia and West Virginia. Waldo Goff was a member of the Virginia State Senate from 1833 to 1837, and thereafter held numerous local minor offices including that of sheriff of Harrison County in 1851. The most famous of Waldo Goff&#39;s children was Nathan Goff Jr. born at the Waldomore February 9, 1843. Nathan served as Secretary of the Navy appointed by president Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1876, Nathan Goff ran for governor and was defeated by Henry Mathews. Nathan Goff was a United States Congressman from 1883 to 1889.</p><br>
<h2>Impact on the City of Clarksburg</h2><br>
<p>Nathan Goff Jr. also constructed a grand 7 story state of the art hotel right across the street from his family home called the Waldo Hotel in 1904.</p><br>
<p>The Decatur Cemetery is a historic graveyard within the city of Decatur, Georgia, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Decatur Cemetery is the oldest burial ground in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and is believed to have been used even before Decatur&#39;s 1823 incorporation.</p><br>
<p>In 1832, an act by the local legislature created “Commissioners for the Decatur Burial Ground.” Numerous Civil War veterans were buried in the Decatur Cemetery, mostly in the 8 acre area now referred to as "The Old Cemetery". A wooden well house, built in 1881 with lattice and shingle details, has been restored by the Friends of Decatur Cemetery (FODC). The well hole has been sealed over with concrete for safety reasons and the house is now used as a gazebo.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The Decatur Cemetery has expanded to 54 acre and contains well over 20,000 graves. A special section exists for burial of cremated remains; the cemetery also contains a pond stocked with fish. This pond is also home to swans, ducks and turtles, and is a stopping place for Canada geese on migration. The cemetery is bordered by a forest of several acres, which borders the Glennwood Estates neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The forested ravine east of the cemetery includes a newly completed pedestrian path which winds over a tributary of Peachtree Creek. A small waterfall is just south of the southern bridge.</p><br>
<p>At the southeast corner of the cemetery there is a grove of giant bamboo, some with trunks over 20 cm in diameter. A short path leads through this grove to the end of the Ponce de Leon Court Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Notable graves</h2><br>
<p>Lt. Col. Robert Augustus Alston (1832-1879); state legislator and journalist, owner of Meadow Nook</p><br>
<p>Emily Verdery Battey (1826—1912); journalist</p><br>
<p>Col. Milton A. Candler (1837–1909); state senator and USA Congressman</p><br>
<p>Dr Thomas Holley Chivers (1806–1858); physician and poet</p><br>
<p>Mary Ann Harris Gay (1829–1918); author of Life in Dixie During the War</p><br>
<p>William S. Howard (1875 – August 1, 1953) USA Congressman</p><br>
<p>Mary Gregory Jewett (1908 – January 16, 1976), historian and journalist</p><br>
<p>Rev. Hovie Lister (1926-2001) Gospel musician (The Statesmen Quartet)</p><br>
<p>Charles Murphey (1799–1861); USA Congressman and a delegate to the Georgia Secession Convention</p><br>
<p>Robert Ramspeck (1890-1972) USA Congressman</p><br>
<p>Col. George Washington Scott (1829–1903); founder of Agnes Scott College</p><br>
<p>Andrew Sledd (1870–1939); founding president of the modern University of Florida, and Emory University professor</p><br>
<p>Leslie Jasper Steele (1868–1929) Mayor of Decatur, USA Congressman</p><br>
<p>Benjamin F. Swanton (1807–1890) owner of the historic Swanton House</p><br>
<p>Leila Ross Wilburn (1885–1967) pioneering woman architect</p><br>
<p>(1804-1872) minister at Wesley Chapel Methodist Church, and representative for DeKalb County in the Georgia House of Representatives.</p><br>
<p>Edgewood is a historic home located at Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story multipart limestone farmhouse featuring narrow courses of native stone. The house was constructed and added to over the 18th and 19th century and reflects the Greek Revival style popular at that time. It is associated with the Schley family, prominent 19th century residents of Frederick County, who held the farm from 1830 until 1911.</p><br>
<p>Edgewood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Linden Grove is a historic home located at Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, second-quarter-19th-century transitional Federal-Greek Revival Flemish bond brick house. A porch was added to the house in about 1900. Outbuildings include a one-story stuccoed hip-roofed smokehouse and a mid-late 19th century two-story tenant house, with an addition from about 1930.</p><br>
<p>Linden Grove was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The James K.P. Wolfe House is a historic home in Frederick, Maryland. It is a two-story, frame, single hall plan, Victorian period farmhouse with Gothic Revival-style detailing. It is a late-19th century example of the Maryland Piedmont farmhouse. The dwelling was built in 1889 by the Wolfe family, who owned the property until 1936.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Rose Hill Manor, now known as Rose Hill Manor Park & Children&#39;s Museum, is a historic home located at Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland. It is a -story brick house. A notable feature is the large two-story pedimented portico supported by fluted Doric columns on the first floor and Ionic columns on the balustraded second floor. It was the retirement home of Thomas Johnson , the first elected governor of the State of Maryland and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. It was built in the mid-1790s by his daughter and son-in-law.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History of the property</h2><br>
<p>This land was a part of "Taskers Chance", a 7,000-acre tract owned in 1726 by Benjamin Tasker. In 1737 a group of German farmers took out an option on the entire tract of land described as containing some of the areas finest potential home-sites. Unable to raise the sum of money Tasker had asked for the land, the small farmers, all of them poor, went to Annapolis lawyer and land speculator Daniel Dulany for financing. Agreeing to undertake the financial arrangements Dulany bought the option, then the tract itself, selling small lots to the enterprising Germans. One 225-acre section was bought in 1746 for 20 pounds by a German, Hans Peter Hoffman. He called the tract "Rose Garden." His descendants subsequently sold his whole plantation to Maryland&#39;s first elected governor, Thomas Johnson in 1778 for 4,000 pounds, current money of Maryland at that time.</p><br>
<p>The 225-acre tract was given by Governor Thomas Johnson to his eldest daughter, Ann Jennings Johnson as a wedding gift on the eve of her marriage to Major John Colin Graham. Following the death of his wife, Governor Johnson spent the last 25 years of his life living as a guest of his daughter Ann at Rose Hill.</p><br>
<p>Under Grahams hand, Rose Hills acreage doubled. By the mid-1820s Graham was having problems making ends meet and he sold off some of his slaves, 100 acres of Rose Hill and 300 acres of a farm located 5 miles to the west of Rose Hill. His will instructed his wife to sell the estate after his death, pay debts and keep what was left.</p><br>
<h3>Later ownership</h3><br>
<p>In 1833, Captain John McPherson who married Mrs. Grahams niece purchased Rose Hill. He never occupied the mansion, thus protecting Mrs. Grahams right to remain there until her death in 1837.</p><br>
<p>In 1837, Rose Hill was sold to Colonel William Slater, an Irish immigrant and wealthy merchant from Philadelphia and Baltimore.</p><br>
<p>In 1843, Colonel Slater sold the estate to his brother George.</p><br>
<p>In 1845 the property was sold to John J. Willson (married to Anna Tyler) who spent a considerable amount of money on renovating it.</p><br>
<p>In 1853 the estate was sold to David Ogle Thomas, a direct descendant of one of the original purchasers of Tasker&#39;s Chance. Upon his death, the property was left to his wife who sold it in 1894 and moved to Baltimore.</p><br>
<p>The estate was on the market for 12 years and unoccupied, when the agent Noel Cramer bought it and lived in it until the mid-1920s. He gave it to his son, James, who thought it was too far from town and it was left vacant for 25 years, except in 1930 when it served as a hotel and restaurant.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950s the Cramer&#39;s returned and restored it, but the owner died in 1957.</p><br>
<p>In 1968, the board of county commissioners of Frederick County purchased the remaining 43-acre site for $401,400 of federal, state and county funds. The house is currently owned by the county and is operated as part of Rose Hill Manor Park & Children&#39;s Museum.</p><br>
<p>In 1972 a unique see and touch children&#39;s museum was opened in the mansion as a joint venture with the Frederick County Parks Commission and the board of education.</p><br>
<h2>Description of the house and property</h2><br>
<p>Thought to have been built by local craftsman the Rose Hill manor house construction began shortly after the wedding of Ann Jennings Johnson and Major John Colin Graham. The construction of the -story, white frame, brick wall mansion stretched over an eight-year period from laying the foundation to its occupation around 1798.</p><br>
<p>The house rests on a low fieldstone foundation with brick cellar walls. The front façade faces the south and is laid in Flemish bond and all other is in common bond. A nineteenth century galleried portico with white columns fronts the mansion.</p><br>
<p>Rose Hill Mansion is approached by a driveway off an entrance road adjoining the northern boundary of Governor Thomas Johnson High School from the west side of North Market Street.</p><br>
<p>The portico forms two porches: One is on the ground floor at the entrance level with four Doric columns supporting a structure between the columns and a roof consisting of an architrave, frieze and elaborate, carved cornice. The other is above on the second floor with four Ionic columns supporting the pediment lighted by a lunette window. On either side of the large pediment, the roof is pierced by a dormer window with round-arch and a parapet. A similar pediment with a lunette window also graces the rear elevation of the mansion. A flush chimney rises from each gable end of the main block. The mansion&#39;s design reflects the late Georgian style of Tidewater, Maryland and the Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>At the north end of the wide entrance hall is a broad staircase that rises to a landing from which a window overlooks the north garden. The stair continues up in units of six steps to the third story. The upper rails and banisters are light in weight and plain.</p><br>
<p>Off the east side of the entrance hall is a 26-foot square, high ceiling drawing room containing six windows, a mantel piece and a large chandelier with crystal prisms.</p><br>
<p>To the west of the entrance hall is a dining room of the same generous dimensions which recalls an age of good living and entertainment.</p><br>
<p>The second floor center hall south door opens directly onto the upper level of the front porch that faces the high school.</p><br>
<p>On either side of the upper hall are two large bedrooms with fireplaces and two smaller bedrooms that have had a section partitioned off for a bathroom.</p><br>
<p>A kitchen with a fireplace and beehive oven is adjoined to the western side of the mansion with a flush brick chimney rising from the west gable end. There is a service entrance at the front and a verandah on the back overlooking formal gardens. There are several small rooms over the kitchen.</p><br>
<p>Windows on the first floor are nine-over-nine sash and on the second floor are nine-over-six sash all with colonial shutters having widely spaced louvers with hand wrought hardware and headed by jack arches.</p><br>
<p>The attic contains two large finished rooms. It is lighted by nine-over-six sash pane round arched dormer windows headed by local style stepped gables on the front and rear.</p><br>
<p>A formal, native fieldstone walled garden and orchard with old trees occupies about a half an acre on the northern side of the mansion. The garden is accented by an attractive, two-tier cast iron fountain with the pedestal and bowls decorated by Greek acanthus leaves. This was topped by a "putti" embracing a swan.</p><br>
<p>Other buildings include a brick smokehouse with hour glass design louvers, a hipped roof summer kitchen, ice house, old tool shed, an 1835 log cabin, a new building known as the Robert H. Renneberger Carriage Museum features a collection of restored carriages and sleighs, a carriage repair shop and blacksmith shop, three exhibit buildings housing steam engines, antique farm machinery and a livestock barn, the Farm Museum displays include tractors, 19th and early 20th century agriculture tools and equipment, farm family life, a carpentry shop and a broom shop.</p><br>
<h2>Rose Hill Manor Park & Children&#39;s Museum</h2><br>
<p>Address: 1611 North Market Street, Frederick, Maryland 21701</p><br>
<p>The mission of Rose Hill Manor Park and Museums is to preserve and present the living heritage of the property known as Rose Hill from 1746 to 1950. In a child-friendly, hands-on environment the museums present the daily life of Thomas Johnson, Maryland&#39;s first governor, and the individuals who lived on the property as well as the history of agriculture and transportation in Frederick County</p><br>
<p>(Updated 1 Feb 2014 by Frederick Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Historic Preservation Committee)</p><br>
<p>The Drummine Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at New Market, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The main house was constructed about 1790 and is a -story structure of uncoursed fieldstone. The house retains Georgian stylistic influences in exterior and interior decorative detailing. The farm complex structures include a stone tenant house dated 1816, and four additional fieldstone buildings from the early 19th century: a smokehouse, a water storage house, a garden outhouse, and a large bank barn. Wooden farm buildings include a calf shed and a wagon shed with corn cribs from the late 19th century, a dairy barn with three cement stave silos from the 1930s, several sheds and garages, and a large pole barn.</p><br>
<p>The Drummine Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Fat Oxen is a historic home located near Urbana, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story Flemish bond brick house over a high rough stone foundation, with a shorter kitchen wing. It was built about 1775 and is basically Georgian vernacular architecture in style. The home is a notable example of an English farmhouse in a region that was largely populated by German Americans.</p><br>
<p>Fat Oxen was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Natelli Communities was one of the entities that helped preserve the Fat Oxen which is now used as a community clubhouse.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Nelson House is a historic home and farm complex located at New Market, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, coursed stone rubble house built in about 1800, with a gable roof, and a corbeled brick cornice. Outbuildings include a barn, log springhouse, and a small log house.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Nelson House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Rich Mountain is a historic home and farm complex located at Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It is on the remaining 10 acre tract from the original farm. The complex consists of a stone dwelling dating from 1810 to 1820 with a one-story kitchen wing; a 19th-century frame Pennsylvania barn; and a hog barn, wagon shed / corn crib, equipment shed, and chicken coop. The house combines Federal style elements with regional vernacular features.</p><br>
<p>Rich Mountain was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Routzahn-Miller Farmstead is a historic home and farm complex located at Middletown, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It consists of a Federal style-influenced brick house and smokehouse, both built about 1825; a later frame out-kitchen / washhouse; a standard Pennsylvania barn; a 20th-century dairy barn and milk house; and a 20th-century equipment shed. The Pennsylvania barn was probably built in the late 19th century and was recently rehabilitated for use as a preschool. The complex is located on a 16.7 acre parcel on the east flank of South Mountain. It is representative example of a type of domestic and agricultural grouping which characterized the rural mid-Maryland region from the early 19th century through World War II era.</p><br>
<p>The Routzahn-Miller Farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Sheffer Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Middletown, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It is dominated by the two story brick main house, which was constructed between 1840 and 1850. Outbuildings include a stone spring house, a large wood-frame barn, constructed about 1900, and several wood-frame outbuildings including a corncrib, a wagon shed, three frame wood sheds, two tractor sheds, and a chicken house. A concrete block milk house and terra cotta silo were added to the complex in the 1930s. In September 1862, the property served as a temporary hospital for wounded soldiers during the Battle of South Mountain in the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Sheffer Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The George Markell Farmstead, also known as Arcadian Dairy Farm and the Thomas Property, is a historic home and farm complex located at Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It consists of brick house built about 1865, a brick smokehouse, a bake oven, two stone domestic outbuildings, an ice house, a springhouse, a frame stable, a frame chicken house, a mid-20th century guest house, and various sheds and outbuildings. Nearby is a large gambrel-roofed concrete block barn. The main house has combined Greek Revival and Italianate stylistic influences. The once large Markell dairy farm, with its lane to the Ballenger Creek ford of the Monocacy River, served as the primary approach route to the battlefield by Confederate troops during the July 9, 1864 Battle of Monocacy during the American Civil War.</p><br>
<p>The George Markell Farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Linganore Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The main house is a large two-story brick dwelling dating from the 1850s-60s and showing influence of the Greek Revival and Italianate styles. The property includes the ruins of a brick smokehouse, a stone root cellar and a two-story brick secondary house dating from the early 19th century. Across from the house is the site of the Linganore Mill, which was located on the east bank of the Monocacy River. In front of the house is a terraced lawn defined with large boxwoods. In 1891, the farm was converted to a resort known as the Linganore Hills Inn.</p><br>
<p>The Linganore Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Tanglewood is a historic plantation house in Akron, Alabama. The Greek Revival cottage was built in 1859 by Page Harris, on land that he had purchased in 1824. It was given to the University of Alabama as a memorial to Nicholene Bishop in 1949 and the grounds are now used as a 480 acre nature reserve known as the J. Nicholene Bishop Biological Station. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973, due to its architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>The Bowlus Mill House is a historic home and farm complex, located at Spoolsville, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It consists of the house built of narrow courses of flat cut stones, a frame bank barn on a stone foundation, and a small frame shed. The -story house with an exposed basement was built about 1800, and reflects the Germanic influence typical of the region in the period.</p><br>
<p>The Bowlus Mill House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Peter of P. Grossnickel Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Myersville, Maryland, Frederick County. It consists of a mid-19th-century, Greek Revival farmhouse and 13 related buildings and structures. The house is a -story stone center-passage house on a limestone foundation, with a -story kitchen wing and 18 in walls. The house was built between 1840 and 1850. Also on the property is an 1881 tenant house with corresponding barn, spring house, and washhouse / privy; an 1884–1897 bank barn; a pre-1830 granary; a 19th-century wood shed; late-19th-century hog pen / chicken house; a pre-1830 beehive oven; a late-19th-century smokehouse; a spring house with a Late Victorian cottage addition; and early-20th-century concrete block milk house; and a log summer kitchen of unknown date. The Grossnickel family was a German American family who were instrumental in the establishment of the Grossnickel Church of the Brethren.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
