Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Carroll built one of Maryland's first iron foundries on the property, which operated the largest pig iron furnace in the colonies prior to the American Revolution. Dr. Carroll was a cousin of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who signed the Declaration of Independence. [7] [8] [9] In 1827, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was founded in Baltimore ...
The house features a two-story galleried porch and an interior stone chimney. The farm also includes a small 1875 stone-arched bridge, a mid-19th century dairy barn, a small shed-roofed frame outbuilding which may once have housed pigs, and a 1930s frame garage. [2] The Robert Clagett Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...
Principio Furnace and village is in Cecil County, Maryland, 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Havre de Grace. The Principio Iron Works were started here in 1719 by Joseph Farmer with British capital and an ironmaster, John England. By the 1740s, it had become one of the most successful colonial ironworks, producing pig iron for sale in
Perdue Farms is the parent company of Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness, based in Salisbury, Maryland. Perdue Foods is a major chicken, turkey, and pork processing company in the United States. Perdue AgriBusiness ranks among the top United States grain companies. Perdue Farms has 2021 annual sales of $8 billion.
The John Orendorff Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, United States.The complex consists of a brick house, a brick privy, a brick smokehouse, a frame barn, a frame hog pen, a frame wagon shed, two poultry houses, and a feed house.
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:
Farm museums in Maryland (6 P) H. Horse farms in Maryland (7 P) Pages in category "Farms in Maryland" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
James Owens Farm is a historic home and farm at Bristol, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The home was built by successful tobacco farmer James Owens and is a large mid-19th century, two-story brick cross-gable late Greek Revival/Italianate dwelling. Outbuildings are all of frame construction and include an early 19th-century cornhouse, an early ...