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Meriweather (Glenelg, Maryland)

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Meriweather Plantation, now known as the Butler House, is a historic slave plantation house in Glenelg, Howard County, Maryland The Meriweather Manor was built by Henry Meriweather in 1805. The two-story stone building is five bays wide. In 1840 the house was purchased by Samuel T. Ownings, who added 201 and 20 acre parcels to the property in 1865. In 1868, the Dorsey family inherited the property. The Owings family later inherited the property, selling it to Joshua Owings for $5,500. The site is the location of the Howard County Hunt Club Race. In 1950 a fire gutted the staircase, which was rebuilt. Most of the farm has been subdivided for residential development.

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Longwood (Glenwood, Maryland)

Longwood Plantation was a forced-labor farm in Glenwood in Howard County, Maryland, United States.The Longwood plantation was started by Dr. Gustavus Warfield (1784-??), son of Dr. Charles Alexander Warfield, a doctor and wealthy landowner in Howard County, where he owned an estate called Bushy Park. Gustavus graduated in 1806 from the University of Pennsylvania and returned to Howard County to practice medicine with his father. The elder Warfield died intestate in 1813, and Gustavus eventually took possession of part of his father's estate.In the 1820s, he built a manor house, part of which stands today. The name Longwood originates with the Longwood House where Napoleon was exiled in Saint Helena. Rather than the typical practice of naming estates after land patents which would have included "Ridgley's Range" or "Ridgley's Great Park". Warfield practiced medicine and ran his forced-labor farm in the house; he would keep patients in a loft above his office if they were unfit to travel. It feature numerous outbuildings and a smokehouse. The Warfields built a graveyard for people they enslaved; it sits to the south of the house. In 1860, Robert E. Lee visited Longwood to visit his wife's first cousin, George Washington Parke Custis Peter. He returned to visit in July 1870.A will made out in 1865 by Warfield's wife, Mary Thomas Warfield, bequeathes various parts of the property and the people she enslaved to her daughters.

Glenwood, Howard County, Maryland
Glenwood, Howard County, Maryland

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