Round About Hills

Round About Hills
Round About Hills, January 2011
Location 15505 Cattail Oaks, Glenwood, Maryland
Coordinates 39°16′20″N 77°01′59″W / 39.27222°N 77.03306°WCoordinates: 39°16′20″N 77°01′59″W / 39.27222°N 77.03306°W
Area 3.2 acres (1.3 ha)
Built 1773
Architectural style Southern colonial
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference # 08001072 [1]
Added to NRHP November 20, 2008

Round About Hills or Peacefields is a historic slave plantation home located at Glenwood, Howard County, Maryland.[2] An alternate address for this house is 14581 McClintock Drive, Glenwood, Maryland.[3] It was built about 1773 on a 266 acre land patent and consists of a 1 1⁄2-story frame house with a stone end. Thomas Beale Dorsey exchanged his interest in the plantation with Thomas Cook's stagecoach wayside town Cooksville.[4]

The main block is three bays wide by one bay deep, with a gambrel roof and 1-story hip-roofed porch. It features a long screened porch with exposed rafter tails and an 1820 stone kitchen addition. Also on the property is a stone slave quaters outbuilding and a small frame outbuilding.[2] The property has been subdivided to 140 acres.[5]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Maryland Historical Trust". Round About Hills. Maryland Historical Trust. 2009-03-02.
  3. ↑ "WEEKLY LIST OF ACTIONS TAKEN ON PROPERTIES: 11/17/08 THROUGH 11/21/08". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-02.
  4. ↑ Barbara Feaga. Howard's Roads to the Past. p. 42.
  5. ↑ "HO-9 Peacefields". Retrieved 5 August 2014.

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