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HA-356 Joshua's Meadows Architectural Survey File This is the architectural survey file for this MIHP record. The survey file is organized reverse- chronological (that is, with the latest material on top). It contains all MIHP inventory forms, National Register nomination forms, determinations of eligibility (DOE) forms, and accompanying documentation such as photographs and maps. Users should be aware that additional undigitized material about this property may be found in on-site architectural reports, copies of HABS/HAER or other documentation, drawings, and the “vertical files” at the MHT Library in Crownsville. The vertical files may include newspaper clippings, field notes, draft versions of forms and architectural reports, photographs, maps, and drawings. Researchers who need a thorough understanding of this property should plan to visit the MHT Library as part of their research project; look at the MHT web site (mht.maryland.gov) for details about how to make an appointment. All material is property of the Maryland Historical Trust. Last Updated: 02-18-2004
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HA-356

Joshua's Meadows

Architectural Survey File

This is the architectural survey file for this MIHP record. The survey file is organized reverse-

chronological (that is, with the latest material on top). It contains all MIHP inventory forms, National

Register nomination forms, determinations of eligibility (DOE) forms, and accompanying documentation

such as photographs and maps.

Users should be aware that additional undigitized material about this property may be found in on-site

architectural reports, copies of HABS/HAER or other documentation, drawings, and the “vertical files” at

the MHT Library in Crownsville. The vertical files may include newspaper clippings, field notes, draft

versions of forms and architectural reports, photographs, maps, and drawings. Researchers who need a

thorough understanding of this property should plan to visit the MHT Library as part of their research

project; look at the MHT web site (mht.maryland.gov) for details about how to make an appointment.

All material is property of the Maryland Historical Trust.

Last Updated: 02-18-2004

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2. Location

street & number 300 North Tollgate Road N/.A_ not for publication

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street & number Joshua's Meadows, 300 North Tollgate Road

city, town Bel Air _ vicinity of state Maryland 21014

5. Locc.:'k:ion of Legal Description

courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Harford County Courthouse

street & number Main Street

city, town Bel Air state Maryland 21014

Representation in E1cisting Surveys 6. r .... ue

Maryl&nd Historical Trust Historic Sites Survey has this property been determined elegible? yes X no

date 1982

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depository for survey records Maryland Historical Trust

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__ deteriorated __ ruins _.K_ altered __ moved date --------------__ unexposed

Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

DESCRIPTim~ Sill-~1ARY

Joshua's Meadows is basically a three-part house that sits on a hillock overlooking the ~inters Run Vall~y, about one mile southwest of Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. The two oldest sections are Flemish bond brick, T-shaped, gable roofed, circa 1750, and one of the half-dozen oldest extant structures in Harford County; the third section is native fieldstone, is attached to the eastern stroke of the T, dates to 1937, but is sy~pathetic with the older sections. The original T-shape house consists of two parts - a main two-and-one-half-story 20' X 40' house and a one-and-one-half-story 16' X 20' kitchen wing. The plan of both sections remains untouched. The main house has tw.o rooms per floor on all floors (the plan being the same on all floors}; all partitions are of brick; there are inside gable-end fireplaces in all rooms and tbere is an enclosed winder stair between each ground and second story room. The kitchen wing has one room per floor, a large, plain, walk-in fireplace in the south. wall on the ground floor (the second floor was unheated) with an enclosed winder stair in the eastern half of the north wall. There are no cellars. in the original sections. The stone wing has a full cellar (to contain the modern beating system), a modern kitchen on the ground floor, and a bedroom with bath above. To the side stands an eighLeentb century two story plastered brick slave quarter. An early frame privy to ant>t:her side. GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The earliest mention of the house is in a deed dated November 22, 1752 in which Thomas Bond, who owned several thousand acres and many mills, gave his son, Joshua, one-half of the land patented as "Poplar Neck", the land being "where the said Joshua's dwelling is." On the same day Thomas gave the other half of Poplar Neck to another son, Jacob, and this conveyance makes no reference to any dwelling.(See also Significance section.) (Joshua had als.o received land from his father in 1747 and 1748, but the 1752 deed is the first to refer specifically to 'the ·house.) The 1798 Direct Tax cites Buckler Bond (one of Joshua's sons and Joshua's Neadows then-o\.:ner (see significance) as owning one house 20' X 40' ," one kitchen 20' X 16', and one out house ·2o'XlO'. These correspond exactly to the T-shaped house-<:um-kitchen and the nearby out building known as the slaves quarters.

The kitchen was, as noted, originally a separate structure. Sometime in the nineteenth century the kitchen was joined to the main house by a connecting link and by a passage built along the east side of the kitchen and connecting link. (The roof of the link was constructed so that the roof seems to be an extension of the kitchen roof and the appearance from the outside does not belie this; the structural members, however, show this not to be so.) In 1937 the link was made into an entrance hall and the passage was opened to become a porch. The owners left all original woodwork - cnair rail and closets. in the ~ passage; chair rail and mantel in the link - intact. In 1937 the kitchen was turned into the main living room. As it had only two very srr~ll casement windows still in place on the north wall, a bay window 'loraS put in the south wall and a single pane window was put in the west wall to face the extensive view. The old kitchen (now the living room) and the upstairs bedroom still have all their originalwrought iron hardware: strap hinges on the (former} outside door, H & L hinges on the door to the stairs to the bedroom, and the cooking crane in

the fireplace; the kitchen's original beaded beam ceiling was exposed.

SEE CONTIKUATION SHEET fJl

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Joshua's Meadows, Bel Air Continuation sheet Harford County, Maryland

GEKERAL DESCRIPTION (Continued)

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The two downstairs rooms in the main section are now used as a dining room and study. Each room has its original mantel and both are surprisingly intricate for mid-eighteenth century Harford County (doubtless reflecting the Bonds' status and wealth). The study's mantel is the more elaborate and has fluted pilasters with rope-andbead trim. The dining room mantel has 3/4-engaged fluted columns. All original hardware - including the signed rnortis locks - is still in place, as are the original 6-panel doors. Originally the two ground floor rooms had fully-panelled fireplace walls. The panelling was removed in the nineteenth century but the Camerons reinterpreted the panelling in the study using motifs Mr. Cameron had seen during his youthful visits to pre-restored Williamsburg.

The second story in the main section has two bedrooms. The eastern one has its original mantel, but the door and closet trim dates to the mid-ninteenth century (bulls-eye blocks). Doors to the bedrooms have their original hardware; the mantel in the second bedroom was removed in 1937 to allow for the construction of a powder room.

The 1937 stone kitchen wing, built off the study, measures two-bays-by two-bays and is roughly the same size as the original kitchen wing. All windows on both floors are casement and thus refer to the original casement windows in the original kitchen. The new wing has a kitchen on the ground floor and a bedroom (with sleepiug porch) and bath above. The wing is fully sympathetic in scale, detail, and feeling to the rest of the house and was designed by Brodnax Cameron, Sr., when he and Mrs. Cameron bought the house; Mr. Cameron also planned the restoration and adaption of the entire structure, working with the notes of Baltimore architect Lawrence Ewell.

The other building identified in the 1798 tax records is a two-story, plastered brick, mid-eighteenth century slaves quarters which stands just south of the original kitchen. Currently used for storage, it has its original batten door and one-room-per-floor plan. There is a modern garage and storage area built to the south of it but they do not disturb the quarters' integrity.

The rest of the nominated acreage contains an early privy, now a garden shed •

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Period prehistoric 1400-1499

_ 1500-1599 -- 1600-1699 _x_ 1700-1799 _x_ 1800-1899 _x_ 1900-

Areas of Significance-Check and jus~ify below __ archeology-prehistoric __ community planning __ landscape architecture __ religion __ archeology-historic __ conservation _x_ law __ science __ agriculture __ economics __ literature __ sculpture _x_ architecture __ education __ military __X_ social/ __ art __ engineering __ music humanitarian _x_ commerce __ exploration'settlement __ philosophy __ theater __ communications __ Industry __ politics'government __ transportation

__ Invention __ other (specify)

Specific dates ca.1750 (1937 add.) Builder Architect Thomas Bond

Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) Criterion: C~ ,B SIGNIFICANCE SL~~!ARY

Joshua's Meado~~is anong the oldest and most structurally original structures in Harford County. It also has extremely sophisticated woodwork and detailing rare for its date in this back-\o.'ater part of the county. This is not surprising, however, because Joshua's neadows has had three principal periods of ownership -the Bond, Hays, and Cameron families - each characterized by figures who were pre-eminent in the agricultural, molinographical, corr~ercial, industrial, legal, and social histories of Harford County in their respective periods: mid-eighteenth century, early-nineteenth century, and mid-twentieth century. The house's owners have, over the past 230 years, farmed thousands of acres, operated mills, run inns, supervised courthouse construction, founded libraries and schools, subdivided acreage to create modern Bel Air, opened turnpikESbetween Bel Air and Baltimore, contributed land for four Quaker meeting houses,and more. This is reflected in the house,whose owners have guided the county's change from its eighteenth century agricultural base through its early nineteenth century period of commercial growth, to the governmental service center it is today.

HISTORY AND SUPPORT

The Bonds,who built most of the house,were one of Harford (then Baltimore) County's great l~nd-owning and milling families. The first, Bond to ta~e up land in what is now Harford County was Peter Bond~no moved into the area from Anne Arundel County in 1660 (Preston 206). He patented tracts ranging from present day Bel Air to the banks of the P atapsco at G\.."')'nn' s Falls. Thomas died in 1705 leaving four sons: Peter (the eldest and heir), Thomas, William, and John (Preston 206).

Thomas had, however, already struck out on his own. In 1700 he had married Anna Robertson of Anne Arundel County, and in 1707 had patented Knave's Misfortune near present day Emmorton, Harford County. Thomas'sother Harford County patents include Bond's Forest (1714, 3000 acres), Cheapside and Poplar Ridge (3000 acres), and Bond's Manor (1705, 5000 acres). Thomas sold part of that last tract to Captain Thomas Cresap (interestingly, an ancestor of Nrs Cameron, Joshua's Meadows

present owner} and thus became involved with the Calverts' boundry dispute with William Penn.

According to Preston's History of Harford County, Thomas was "a member of the celebrated grand jury which protested against the removal of the county seat from the Forks of the Gunpowder to Joppa, denouncing it as 'a palpable, nefarious grievance to the county.'" (207)

SEE COKTI!'-.'UATION SHEET i/2

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'united St;;tes Dcp.:rtrncnt of the Interior r:.critage Conservation <ind nccrcation Service

i.'"a\:ior'tal P.egis(ci .. of t-:istoric r:;12ces C n uen"t:o '4 ,;-r.J o ati in a ti on f.' o rm

Joshua's Meadow, Bel Air Continuation sheet Harford County, Maryland Item number

HISTORY AND SUPPORT (Continued)

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Thomas also built Joshua's Meadows. On December 31, 1726, he purchased the 1000-acre tract, Poplar Neck, from Richard Dorsey for 130 pounds sterling (B. Co. Deed I.S. No. IK, p. 322). Poplar Neck encompassed lands on both banks of Winters Run and the Bonds used the land by the Run to build several prominent mills (shown on the 1794 Griffith map of Maryland). Presumably acknowledging his mortality, Thomas began to divide his holdings among his children in the mid-eighteenth century. In 1749 he conveyed part of Bond's Forest to his sons, Thomas II and John; that land included "a house now built intended for meeting house for the poeple called Quakers to worship God in, and also a school hou~e already built." The records of the Gunpowder Meeting show acceptance of this deed in 1753 - thiswas the beginning of the Little Falls Meeting House (NR) (Preston 206, Papenfuse, 12). He divided the Poplar Neck tract on November 11, 1752, splitting it in half: to son Joshua "one half of Poplar Neck where the said Joshua's dwelling i3 •.• "(ref. Book TR No.D, page 465); the other half, with no mention of any dwelling to another son, Jacob (Book TR no. D, page 463). Joshua's Meadows was so close to the mills - about one-half mile - that it is impossible not to assume that Thomas intended the house to serve as the seat for Joshua to whom he gave the mills. Thomas had been giving land to Joshua since 1747; these deeds - and one patent - refer to Winters Run, to the mills, and to ·~oshua's Meadows", BUT nonP. specifically mentions a house until 1752 (note, for example Patent in book BT & BY 113, p. 146, 17 4 7). Nonetheless, Preston,, in his History dates Joshua's Meado'Ws "near the tollgate, one mile 'West of Bel Air" to 1732 (p.32). This would have been six years after Thomas bought Poplar Neck, so the earlier date would be possible. (Thomas's own seat was at Knave's 'Misfortune.)

Parenthetically, the most prominent of the Bonds was probably Joshua's brother (and recipient of the other half of Poplar Neck), Jacob, who died in November 1780. He was a member of the Committee of Harford County in the Revolution and was a captain of Company Eleven of the Harford Militia in the Revolution. Jacob represented Harford County in the convention that met in Annapolis in 1776 to prepare the state's constitution; he had earlier gone to Annapolis to attend the convention of June 22, 1774, which protested the tax on tea. (Preston 207)

More pertinent to Joshua's Meado'Ws, Joshua willed the house and land to his son, James (ref. Will Book 12, page 68), who proceeded to sell it to his younger brother, Buckler, on September 29, 1790 (HAR CO DEEDBOOK JLG I/405) for h2500; the deed also included "5 lottes in Belle Air", re-emphasizing the Bonds' importance to the newly-founded county seat. The seve~al Bonds' landholdings take in much of the present day town and the family is recognized in the name of one of the town's two principal north-south thoroughfares: Bond Street. It is Buckler Bond who is listed in the '98 Direct Tax as owning the t'Wo-part house.

SEE CONTINUATION SHEET D3

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Joshua's Meadows, Bel Air Continuation sheet Harford County, Maryland Item number 8

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The Bond brothers then began selling their patrimony. Marilynn Larew notes in her book, Bel Air: The To\..'11 Through Iti:; Buildings: "The famous old Eagle Hotel across Bond Street from the courthouse, often reputed to have been built as early as 1718, was the first inn built in town. The hotel was part of a 52-acre parcel, part of Joshua's Meadows Enlarged, which Major William Richardson, veteran of the Defense of Baltimore in the War of 1812, purchased from Buckler and Joshua Bond for $132.00 on July 30, 1821." Later in the 1820s, Buckler began selling his mills and, eventually, even Joshua's Meadows house, to Thomas Hays: on June 14, 1823, Buckler sold Hays 111 and on Winters Run about a mile and a quarter from Bel Air with all the appurtenances, to wit, the dwelling house and the mill ••• part of Joshua's Meadows, Joshua's Meadows Enlarged, Bond'.s Addition to Joshua's Meadows, Poplar Neck, all contiguous to each other ••• "for $5000. (HD 7, p. 144; HD 7, p. 147)

Thus begins the second, the commercial, period in Joshua's Meadows's history. The Hays-Jacobs family was, without question, the pre-eminent family in Bel Air in the early and mid 19th century. Hays 1 s activities are well documented in Larew's book; briefly, however, he was "Commissioner for building the fireproof edifices" (courthouse additions in town) between 1832-37; he owned the "inn at the northwest corner of Main Street and the Baltimore Pike". (p. 23) He was one of the "two first managers of the Baltimore and Harford Turnpike Company, which was chartered in 1816 • • • linZ 1818 Thomas Hays offered to buy a substantial block of stock if the road came into town LBel Air/ via Hays's Union Tavern rather than along Bond Street to the courthouse." (p. 26) In 1846 Bel Air's residents decided to pave the town's roads: Thomas Hays managed the project (28). The second story bedroom woodwork and the passage and link connecting the old kitchen to the main house date to the Hays era. (See Description.)

The Civil War years were less successful for Thomas who died in 1861; his brother Nathaniel acquired Joshua's Meadows but died in 1863. Nathaniel's heirs then got embroiled in a battle with his creditors and, on April 24, 1871, his estate was divided and sold. Of the five parts the Bond-Hays tract was split into, only the present Joshua's Meadows parcel remains undeveloped; the rest contains housing developments, bowling alleys, a Montgomery Wards shopping center, used car lots and all the other expressions of mid 20th century vernacular building.

This is doubtless due to the house's third (and present) set of owners, the late Brodnax Cameron, Sr., and his wife, Julia Duryea Sprigg Cameron. The land changed hands several times after 1871 and the house deteriorated rapidly until 1937 when Mrs. Cameron spied its irregular outline while riding the Maryland and Pennsylvania railroad from Bel Air to Baltimore. The Camerons bough~ the property on May 14, 1937 (Deed Book SWC 246. p. 56) and began the restoration process, which was finished that fall. (See Description.) They continued the practice of keeping Joshua's Meadows at the center of Harford County; among the Camerons' many pro bono activities must be numbered Mrs. Cameron's leadership in creating a public library system for the county and Mr. Cameron's involvement in founding the Harford Day School. Mr. Cameron, while trained as an architect, was a lawyer and was unnamed dean of the Harford County Bar; he included among his clients baseball magnate Larry MacPhail and the Bata Shoe Company (the county's largest private employer and on whose Board

SEE CONTINUATION SHEET 04

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of Directors he sat from 1954 until his death in 1980). The Camerons reared their three sons at Joshua's Meadows and the oldest, Brodnax Cameron, Jr., Circuit Court Judge for Harford County, and his wife live in a modern house on part of the acreage (not part or this nomination).

Brodnax Cameron died on June 18, 1980; exactly one week later, Bradford Jacobs, a Hays descendant and an editor of the Baltimore Sunpapers, wrote a piece that appeared on the editorial page of the Evening Sun: "Brodnax Cameron: Harford Hero". Jacobs notes: "Brodnax Cameron ••• at the end last week of a long and fruitful life .•. stood foremost at the Bel Air Bar and throughout the now-vigorous Harford County cormnunity he had done much to stir to life • • • Never mind that he drew and held clients of national and international scope. He never let legal glitter blind him to life's simplicity • • • And if he was a lawyer who could crackle with the best, he was more than a lawyer, too. He was first of all a man of deep sensitivity and human perception . • • He led the fight to found an excellent new school on Harford, to start Bel Air's first library, to arrange a historical society for the county. A stream of younger lawyers found him jovially.ready with professional advice. Three Cameron law partners under his tutelage made their way to the judicial bench, one of them [the late C. Stanley Blai£7 the federal. Another, closer partner was his wife, Julia, a fountainhead of bubbling energy. Some say Julia outdid Brodnax in chivvying Harford out of the almost colonial complacency--huntin', shootin, fishin', old family ruminations--they found there and into the lively sense of itself it now displays • • •

"Embracing all was Joshua's Meadows, his 200-year-old Bel Air house set on a woodsy knoll off Tollgate Road. Its casualness was overriding but deceptive: in reality it was and remains a rare potpourri--here a brace of antique Spanish chairs fringed in handcut leather, there a serene Venetian painting, yonder an early American woodbox, its years softened by patina . • •

"How tempting it is to boast of this remarkable man as a true-born Harford countian, a proper Marylander reared and published. But he was not. Instead, he was one of a thin trickle of first-family Virginians who made it north to Maryland before or between the two world wars, who then caught on and flourished and gave their adopted communities more than they got • • • "

Brodnax Cameron and his wife Julia, that "fountainhead of bubbling energy" are responsible for saving and restoring Joshua's Meadows, a house that ·bas always been at the center of Harford County's goings-on. They have preserved the heritage of the Bonds and their agricultural interests, and of the Hayses and their civic and business interests,-while adding an undefinable but unmistakable worldly sophis­tication.

The Aegis, Bel Air's weekly paper, featured Joshua's Meadows in a June 15, 1961, article noting that "the Cameron hideaway has been featured on many Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimages • • • Spotted accidentally by Mrs. Cameron, restored and refurnished, Joshua's Meadows certainly belongs among Harford County's most distinguished homes."

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BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION

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The boundaries are dra~-n to ~aintain the somewhat formal landscape setting in which the house stands but to exclude the uncultivated fields that surround this area. The formally landscaped area is irregular in shape with edges blurred insowesections. The borders for the nomination are arbitrary lines dra~-n approxinating the edges of the for~ally landscaped area.

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Bel Air: The To\.ll1 Through Its Buildings, Marilynn M. Larew (1981)

~ Old House Book of Kitchens and Dining Rooms, L. Grow (ed), (1981)

tustory of Harford County, W.W. Preston 0901)

Acreage of nominated property Approximately one a.ere

Quadrangle name Bel Air, MD Quadrangle scale 1 : 24 • 000

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The boundaries are delineated on the attached map. For boundary justification, see Continuation Sheet #5.

Li!it all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries

state N/ A code county code

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name!title Christopher Ueeks

organization Maryland Historical Trust date February 1982

street & number 21 State Circle telephone 269-2212

city or town Annapolis state Maryland 21401

The evaluated significance of this property within the state is:

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As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service.

State Historic Preservation Officer signature

title STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER date

For HCRS use only ( I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register

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Keeper of the National Register

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Chief of Reg!stration

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Form 10-300 (Dec. 1968)

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7. PESCRtPTJON

INTEGRITY

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Unaltered 0 Moved O Original Site

DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (If known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

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SPECIFIC OATE( S) (II Appl/cable and Known)

AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or Moro as Appropriate)

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Art D Londa cope Sculpture 0 Commerce D Arc hi tee lure 0 ~l/Humo::> Com"'lunicotlona 0 Literature 0 ...._ itario.!l-- O Conservation 0 Military 0 Theate r 0

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S T ATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE (In c lude P ers onege•. Dates, Events, Etc.)

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L.ATITIJOE ANO L.ONGITUOE COORDINATES

OEF'INING A RECTANGL.E L.OCATING THE PROPERTY OEF'INING THE CENTER POINT OF' A PROPERTY

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CORNER L.ATl~uoE L.ONGITUOE 1..ATITUOE L.ONGITUOE

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JEAN s. EWING ORGANIZATION

MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST 'CATE

STREET ANO NUMBER : 50 STATE CIRCLE

CITY OR TOWN : ANNAPOLIS

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MARYLAND 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICA'llON NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION

As \he designa\ed Srnte Liaison Officer for the Na ·

tional HiMoric Preservatson Act of 1966 (Public Law I herebv certify that this property iS i.ncluded in the

89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion Nations I Register.

in the National Rcl(ister and certify that il has been

evaluated according to the criteria and procedlres set

forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Chief, Offrce of Archeology and H1~tor1c Preservation

level of s1gn1ftcance of this nom1nat1on is:

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ATTEST:

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