Elk Landing

Elk Landing
Stone house in 2013
Location Landing Lane, Elkton, Maryland
Coordinates 39°35′45″N 75°50′28″W / 39.59583°N 75.84111°WCoordinates: 39°35′45″N 75°50′28″W / 39.59583°N 75.84111°W
Built 1750
Architectural style No Style Listed
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference #

84001596

[1]
Added to NRHP September 07, 1984

Elk Landing is the name of a historic home located at Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland. The house at Elk Landing was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

It is a two story, fieldstone dwelling, three bays wide by two bays deep, with a gable roof dating to about 1780. Its interior features a corner fireplace in its northeast corner as well as a full basement. Interior doors and chair rail moldings in most of the rooms may also be original to the house.[2]

The property on which the house is located was part of an early settlement of Swedish and Finnish immigrants. The Swedes and Finns had established an early trading post at this site. Elk Landing was the home, trading post and base of operations of the Swedish-American trader, John Hansson Steelman (1655–1749) who occupied the site between 1693 and 1710.[3]

The site of Elk Landing is significant for its association with trade between the Scandinavian settlers and the Susquehannock, as well as with the history of early Swedish settlement in Maryland. Elk Landing was also the site of the arrival of the first three priests who landed on June 24, 1697 to renew the work of the Church of Sweden started in the New Sweden colony.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ "Maryland Historical Trust". National Register of Historic Places: Elk Landing. Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-10-05.
  3. ↑ Hans Månsson and his Steelman Family (Dr. Peter Stebbins Craig. "Swedish Colonial News", Volume 1, Number 10. Fall 1994)http://www.colonialswedes.org/Forefathers/Steelman.html
  4. ↑ Elk Landing to be Restored ("Swedish Colonial News" Volume 2, Number 2 Summer 2000) http://www.colonialswedes.org/images/publications/SCNewS00.pdf

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