Cherry Grove (Woodbine, Maryland)

Cherry Grove, HO-1
Location2937 Jennings Chapel Road,
Woodbine, Maryland
Coordinates39°17′39.3786″N 77°05′37.7262″W / 39.294271833°N 77.093812833°W / 39.294271833; -77.093812833
Area12.1 acres (4.9 ha)
Built1798 (1798)
NRHP reference No.07000567[1]
Added to NRHPJune 21, 2007

Cherry Grove is a historic home and former forced-labor farm located at Woodbine, Howard County, Maryland, United States. The home is considered the seat of the Warfield family of Maryland.[2][3]

The multi-part house was built by Captain Benjamin Warfield starting after 1766 after acquiring a 550-acre land grant from Henry Griffith named "Fredericksburg". The complex includes a ca. 1798 log ground barn, an 1860-1890 frame wagon shed with corn crib, an early-20th century frame water tower, frame ground barn with cantilevered forebay, frame shed, frame dairy barn, concrete silo, concrete block dairy, and several frame shelter sheds. The buildings are located on a generally flat site surrounded by gently rolling terrain and are set well back from the road along a gravel drive that winds through the center of the farm.[4] The J.P. Tarenz log house was built around 1768 to house people enslaved by the farm owners; after the Civil War, it was moved offsite to accommodate people freed from slavery.[5] The remains of Maryland's 45th Governor Edwin Warfield (1848–1920), are buried onsite in the family cemetery.[6][7]

The property was owned by Arthur G. Nichols Jr. and wife in 1976 and was subdivided down to 338 acres.[8]

Cherry Grove was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Seeking Freedom The History of the Underground Railroad in Howard County. p. 83.
  3. ^ Stein, Charles Francis (1972). Origin and History of Howard County Maryland (First ed.). Charles Francis Stein, Jr. p. 244.
  4. ^ Kenneth M. Short (November 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Cherry Grove, HO-1" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  5. ^ Seeking Freedom The History of the Underground Railroad in Howard County. p. 81.
  6. ^ "Lovely Historic Howard Homes". The Times (Ellicott City). March 31, 1965.
  7. ^ Celia M. Holland. Old homes and families of Howard County, Maryland: with consideration of various additional points of interest. p. 302.
  8. ^ "HO-1" (PDF). Retrieved July 19, 2014.


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