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Location of Kent County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kent County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kent County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Chestertown Historic District is a historic district in Chestertown, Maryland.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970, and its area was increased in 1984.
Though not as popular as the Duroc, Yorkshire, or Hampshire, [8] the Chester White is actively used in commercial crossbreeding operations for pork. [6] The Chester White is the most durable of the white breeds; it can gain as much as 1.36 pounds (0.62 kg) a day and gain 1 pound (0.45 kg) for every 3 pounds (1.4 kg) of grain it is fed.
Thornton is a historic family farm located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, United States. The farm is located on a 352-acre (142 ha) plot on Morgan's Creek, a tributary of the Chester River. The main house is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, five-bay brick house, constructed about 1788, and principally Georgian in style.
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White House Farm is a historic home located at Kennedyville, Kent County, Maryland, United States. The oldest section of the 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story stuccoed brick house was built in 1721. The house is located on an elevated site, within an informally landscaped yard which retains evidence of historic terracing.
Oblique view of Chestertown in 1984. Chestertown is at (39.219328, -76.068424 [12]According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.91 square miles (7.54 km 2), of which 2.60 square miles (6.73 km 2) is land and 0.31 square miles (0.80 km 2) is water. [13]
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: