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Holland Island is a marshy, rapidly eroding island in the Chesapeake Bay, in Dorchester County, Maryland, west of Salisbury. The island was once inhabited by watermen and farmers but has since been abandoned due to sinking of the land's surface associated with isostatic subsidence and sea level rise .
Holland House shown as "Earl of Hollands" on a 1675 map by John Ogilby. Cope commissioned the house in 1604 from the architect John Thorpe, [a] to preside over a 500 acres (200 ha; 0.78 sq mi) estate that, in modern terms, stretched from Holland Park Avenue almost to Fulham Road, [3] and contained exotic trees imported by John Tradescant the Younger. [4]
The Holland Island Bar Light was a screw-pile lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay which existed from 1889 to 1960. It is remembered for the unexplained death of one of its keepers, and for being "attacked" by United States Navy pilots during a training exercise.
The Holland estate was purchased by Thomas Traill in 1637. He built his first house just north of the Holland House. The estate remained in the possession of the Traill family until 1952. George Traill built a larger house on the estate, from 1810 to 1814. When Trail's kelp-processing business declined in the 1830s, he expanded the farm complex ...
The top of The King's Gate is visible at left leading down to the beach Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate, the columns of the portico of which are believed to have been removed from Holland House, Kingsgate in 1853 [1] Holland House is a Georgian country house, in Kingsgate, Kent in England. It was built between 1762 and 1768 by the ...
Taylor Swift’s Rhode Island beach house has been part of her real estate portfolio since 2013 and a summer destination for the pop star and her inner circle for years.
The Holland–Towne House is located on a private road north of the Petersham village center. The privately owned house is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and fieldstone foundation. The main facade faces south, and is nearly symmetrical, with windows in the ...
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