Middle Plantation (Davidsonville, Maryland)

Middle Plantation
General information
Address 2621 Davidsonville, Road
Davidsonville, Maryland[1]
Coordinates 38°57.972′N 76°39.813′W / 38.966200°N 76.663550°W / 38.966200; -76.663550
Construction started circa 1790[1]

Middle Plantation is a historic house and plantation in Davidsonville, Maryland, originally owned by the Huguenot, Mareen Duvall.[1][2][3][4] The original 600 acre tract was patented to him near the South River in 1664.[4]

Middle Plantation was described shortly after it was built "as luxurious and courtly as any of the manors of the English gentry."[5]

The plantation is identified by a historical marker.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 ""Middle Plantation" Oakland, AA-193" (PDF). State Historic Inventory. Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
  2. William P. Doepkens (1991). Excavations at Mareen Duvall's Middle Plantation of South River Hundred.
  3. Arthur Hirsch (3 May 1991). "In Davidsonville, Farmer Works The Land For Artifacts 22 Years Of Digging Detailed In New Book". The Baltimore Sun.
  4. 1 2 Steiner, Bernard Christian (1910). Men of mark in Maryland ...: biographies of leading men of the ..., Volume 2. Baltimore: B.F. Johnson.
  5. Richardson, Hester Dorsey (1903). Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families. Baltimore, Maryland: Williams and Wilkins Company. p. 96. ISBN 0-8063-0296-8.
  6. "Middle Plantation". The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
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