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A farm in Beallsville. The 1980 legislation authorized the County government to define a Rural Density Transfer Zone within the Agricultural Reserve, wherein development of new housing is limited to one house per 25 acres (100,000 m 2). Previously the allowed density was one house per 5 acres (20,000 m 2).
The Maryland Hunt Cup, which began as a competition between the Green Spring Valley Hunt and the Elkridge Hunt, traditionally started at Brooklandwood, the previous home of Charles Carrol of Carrollton (later St. Paul’s school) with the finish across Valley Road at Oakdene, at that time the home of Thomas Deford, which remains a private residence
Farm buildings include an early-19th-century corn crib and an array of barns and work buildings from the early 20th century. Opened to the public in 1961, it was once the home of George Plater (1735–1792), the sixth Governor of Maryland, and Herbert L. Satterlee (1863–1947), a New York business lawyer and son-in-law of J.P. Morgan. [3]
Paternal Gift Farm is an historic farm converted to an unincorporated community located in Howard County, Maryland, United States in the Highland, Maryland ZIP code of 20777. The Paternal Gift Farm, Inc is its homeowners' association, and all homeowners are members. In 1803, Dr. Charles Alexander Warfield patented 510 acres under the name ...
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.
Mt. Pleasant, also known as the Clemson Family Farm, is a historic home located at Union Bridge, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It is a five-bay by two-bay, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story brick structure with a gable roof and built about 1815. Also on the property is a brick wash house, a hewn mortised-and-tenoned-and-pegged timber-braced frame ...
Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Cove Farm is a national historic district in Prince George's County, Maryland and Washington, D.C. operated by the National Park Service as part of National Capital Parks-East. It includes a living farm museum located at Oxon Hill in the Maryland portion of the park.
The Jacob M. Funk Farm, also known as the Heaton House, is a historic farm in Washington County, Maryland, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The 7.6 acres (3.1 ha) property includes a stone house, barn, springhouse and dairy house, all built of local stone.