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  2. Belair Mansion (Bowie, Maryland) - Wikipedia

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    Added to NRHP. September 16, 1977. The Belair Mansion, located in the historic Collington area and in Bowie, Maryland, United States, built c. 1745, is the Georgian style plantation house of Provincial Governor of Maryland, Samuel Ogle. Later home to another Maryland governor, the mansion is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

  3. Clark's Elioak Farm - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 39.235798°N 76.876182°W. Boy sitting with Papa Bear at Clark's Elioak Farm. Clark's Elioak Farm, located along Maryland Route 108 in Howard County, Maryland, is a historic farm 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.

  4. List of museums in Maryland - Wikipedia

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    10-acre (40,000 m 2) complex with historic 1908 Bussard Farmstead farmhouse, barn, assorted farm buildings and an activity center. Airmen Memorial Museum. Suitland. Prince George's. Capital. Military. history of enlisted airmen from 1907 to the present day. Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. Catonsville.

  5. Glenview Mansion (Rockville) - Wikipedia

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    Glenview Mansion is a historic home and surrounding property located at Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland. The house is a 1926 Neo-Classical Revival style house on 65 acres (260,000 m 2) of landscaped ground. The five-part mansion incorporates the remnants of the 1838 house called "Glenview." Since 1957, the house and grounds have been ...

  6. Belmont Estate - Wikipedia

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    The Belmont Estate, now Belmont Manor and Historic Park, [4] is a former plantation located at Elkridge, Howard County, Maryland, United States. Founded in the 1730s and known in the Colonial period as "Moore's Morning Choice", [5] it was one of the earliest forced-labor farms in Howard County, Maryland. Its 1738 plantation house is one of the ...

  7. List of Maryland state parks - Wikipedia

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    This list of Maryland state parks includes the state parks and state battlefields listed in the Maryland Department of Natural Resources's current acreage report. Generally, the Maryland Park Service, a unit of and under the authority of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR), is the governing body for these parks, although some have been turned over to local authorities.

  8. Whitehall (Annapolis, Maryland) - Wikipedia

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    Whitehall is a colonial home that was built beginning in 1764 near Annapolis in Anne Arundel County in the Province of Maryland by Horatio Sharpe, then the provincial governor of the British colony of Maryland . The house is located about 7.5 miles (12.1 km) to the east of Annapolis on a peninsula between Whitehall Creek and Meredith Creek ...

  9. History of slavery in Maryland - Wikipedia

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    The small state of Maryland was home to nearly 84,000 free blacks in 1860, by far the most of any state; the state had ranked as having the highest number of free blacks since 1810. In addition, by this time, the vast majority of blacks in Baltimore were free, and this free black population was more than in any other US city.