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In 2007 Maryland native Kevin Plank, CEO of Under Armour apparel company, bought the farm with a long-term plan for a major restoration. [1] Equestrian architect, John Blackburn of Blackburn Architects in Washington, D.C. is renovating the farm that includes a historic 90-stall training barn with a quarter-mile interior track. The facilities ...
Readbourne is a historic home on the Chester River located at Centreville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, United States.It is a five-part Georgian brick house: the center block was built in the early 1730s; the south wing in 1791; and the north wing in 1948.
The Baltimore Orioles farm system consists of seven Minor League Baseball affiliates in the United States and the Dominican Republic. [1] Four teams are independently owned, while the other three—the Florida Complex League Orioles and two Dominican Summer League Orioles squads—are owned by the major league club.
Magnolia Plantation (Knoxville, Maryland) Marshalee (Elkridge, Maryland) Mattawoman (plantation) The Meadows (Owings Mills, Maryland) Melford (Mitchellville, Maryland) Middle Plantation (Davidsonville, Maryland)
Cold Saturday, or Cold Saturday Farm, is a historic home and farm complex located near Finksburg, Carroll County, Maryland. The house is significant for embodying the characteristics of Anglo-American gentry farms that are common in the Tidewater region. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1]
Peter of P. Grossnickel Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Myersville, Maryland, Frederick County.It consists of a mid-19th-century, Greek Revival farmhouse and 13 related buildings and structures.
In 1898 the property was sold to the wealthy New York City banker James T. Woodward, [3] who built large new stables in 1907. On his death, his will bequeathed the property to his nephew William Woodward Sr., who built Belair Stud and Stable into the preeminent United States racing and breeding operation of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
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: