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Cherry Grove is a historic home and former plantation located at Woodbine, Howard County, Maryland, United States. The home is considered the seat of the Warfield family of Maryland. [3] The multi-part house was built by Captain Benjamin Warfield starting after 1766 after acquiring a 550-acre land grant from Henry Griffith named "Fredericksburg".
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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:
Location of Howard County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Howard County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Howard County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
It was built about 1823 and is a five-bay-long, two-story brick “I” house with a kitchen addition dating to the 1970s. The main house measures 41 feet 8 inches (12.70 m) long by 20 feet 1 inch (6.12 m) deep. It is one room deep and features a gable roof. The perimeter of the estate is wooded by pine and cherry trees.
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Troy was inherited by Basil Dorsey in 1714, followed by Caleb Dorsey who reduced the land to 1,016 acres (411 ha) which was split into two unequal parts in 1760 and given to Sarah Dorsey and Thomas Dorsey. Thomas Dorsey would use the root cellar as a meeting place with Benjamin Warfield of Cherry Grove during the revolutionary war. [3]