Longwood (Glenwood, Maryland)

Longwood
Location of Longwood in Maryland
Nearest city Glenwood, Maryland
Coordinates 39°16′00″N 77°03′00″W / 39.26667°N 77.05000°W / 39.26667; -77.05000Coordinates: 39°16′00″N 77°03′00″W / 39.26667°N 77.05000°W / 39.26667; -77.05000
Built abt 1780
Architectural style(s) Georgian

Located Glenwood in Howard County, Maryland, United States, Longwood Plantation.

The Longwood plantation was started around 1780 for Gustavius Warfield.[1] Warfield would keep patients in a loft above his office if they were unfit to travel. It feature numerous outbuildings and a smokehouse and a gravesite for family and slaves. The manor is built on a land grant named Ridgley's great park, on a section he inherited from his father's Bushy Park estate.[2] The graveyard for slaves is situated to the south of the building.[3] In 1860, Robert E. Lee visited Longwood before the war to visit his wife's first cousin George Washington Parke Custis Peter. He returned to visit in July 1870 after the war.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Sen. Tydings drops by". The Baltimore Sun. 2 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "HO-8". Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  3. ↑ Howard County Historic Society. Images of America Howard County. p. 87.
  4. ↑ Howard County Historical Society. Images of America, Howard County. p. 19.
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