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Map showing the Reserve within Montgomery County. The Agricultural Reserve is a designated land use zone in Montgomery County, Maryland.The 93,000 acres (380 km 2) zone was created in 1980 by the Montgomery County Council to preserve farm land and rural space in the northwestern part of the county.
Clark's Elioak Farm is a historic farm and petting zoo located along Maryland Route 108 in Howard County, Maryland, covering 540 acres. All of the acreage is part of county or state farmland protection programs, barring use of the property for non-farm development.
The Curtis—Shipley Farmstead is a historic home located at Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is located on the first land grant in modern Howard County, then Anne Arundel County, to the English settler Adam Shipley in 1688 who settled properties in Maryland as early as 1675. The 500-acre estate was called "Adam the First".
Maryland Public Television’s series Maryland Farm & Harvest's Feb. 6 episode includes segment on Clear Spring's Ernst Farm. All to know.
The first documented Africans were brought to Maryland in 1642, as 13 slaves at St. Mary's City, the first English settlement in the Province. [1] Slave labor made possible the export-driven plantation economy. The English observer William Strickland wrote of agriculture in Virginia and Maryland in the 1790s:
Caves Valley Historic District is a national historic district near Owings Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.It is located in a natural upland valley encompassing about 2,100 acres (8.5 km 2) along the North Branch of the Jones Falls and its contributing courses.
Long Green Valley Historic District is a national historic district in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is an approximately 6,066-acre (24.55 km 2 ) rural agricultural area to the northeast of the city of Baltimore.
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