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About one half of the county's farm land was converted to non-farm ownership by the 1960s. [2]: 12 The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission noted a loss of 18,768 acres (75.95 km 2) acres of farm land over an 8-year period in the 1970s, an average of 2,346 acres/year. [2]: 14
Snively Farm is a historic home and farm located near Eakles Mills, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story, three-bay 18th century log structure with an exposed basement at the front elevation on fieldstone foundations. The home features a two-story, three-bay rear addition built in the late 18th or early 19th century ...
Hard Bargain Farm is the former country estate and working farm of Alice and Henry Ferguson. It is located at 2001 Bryan Point Road in Accokeek, Maryland , overlooking the Potomac River . The property, now a smaller portion of the 330 acres (130 ha) they purchased, was developed by them into a "country garden" .
Nanticoke Acres [nˈantəkoʊk eɪkərz] is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. [3] Its population was 103 as of the 2010 census . [ 4 ]
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 ...
Research at the site continues to reveal more about the roles of small industrial and commercial communities in Maryland's early economy. From 1963 to 1966, The Rouse Company purchased large tracts of Simpsonville to develop Columbia. The development displaced farms and small scientific businesses like JEJA that bred scientific research ...
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.