Spring Hill Farm (Ellicott City, Maryland)

Spring Hill Farm
Location of Spring Hill Farm in Maryland
Nearest city Ellicott City, Maryland
Coordinates 39°14′37″N 76°48′09″W / 39.24361°N 76.80250°W / 39.24361; -76.80250Coordinates: 39°14′37″N 76°48′09″W / 39.24361°N 76.80250°W / 39.24361; -76.80250
Built 1790
Architectural style(s) Stone

The Spring Hill Farm is a historic slave plantation located in Ellicott City in Howard County, Maryland, United States.

The site south of the Patapsco River produced Native American arrowheads in routine farming.[1] The farm is part of a 1695 900 acre land patent named "Chews Resolution Manor". The property was a gift of Caleb Dorsey of Belmont to his daughter Rebbecca and her husband Charles Ridgely creating the parcel "Rebbecca's Lot". The main house was built about 1804. The property contains the Spring Hill quarters, a stone structure dating to 1790 built originally as a home for Edward Hill Dorsey. The structure has served as slave quarters, a carriage house with modern remodeling of the interior in the 1950s.[2] The farm was later owned by the Clark family who also resided to the south at Fairfield Farm. Owner Garnett "Booker" Clark used the outbuildings to make and store whiskey during prohibition. Garnett's brother James "Booker" Clark maintained his credibility as a revenue officer by destroying the operation.[3] About ten outbuildings of the farm are identified in 1790 tax rolls. By the 1970s the farm had been subdivided down to two parcels totaling 11 acres, with a large power-line easement and the New Cut Landfill facility occupying the northern tracts.

In the year 2000, Glen Mar Church purchased 21 acres of the farmland from the Baugher family with an address of 4701 New Cut Road. In 2004 groundbreaking occurred and in 2008 the church relocated to the site from Glen Mar Road.[1][4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Liz F. Kay (26 March 2003). "Glen Mar plans larger home; Methodists: An Ellicott City congregation clears a major hurdle in its long quest to build a new church-school complex.". The Baltimore Sun.
  2. ↑ "HO-31 Spring Hill Farm". Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  3. ↑ James A. Clark Jr. Jim Clark Soldier Farmer Legislator. p. 20.
  4. ↑ "History of Glen Mar Church". Retrieved 16 September 2014.
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