Round About Hills

Round About Hills or Peacefields is a historic slave plantation home located at Glenwood, Howard County, Maryland. An alternate address for this house is 14581 McClintock Drive, Glenwood, Maryland.[2] It was built about 1773 on a 266-acre land patent and consists of a ​1 1⁄2-story frame house with a stone end. Thomas Beale Dorsey inherited the property in 1794 then exchanged his interest in the plantation with Thomas Cook's stagecoach wayside town Cooksville.[3][4]

Round About Hills
Round About Hills, January 2011
Location15505 Cattail Oaks, Glenwood, Maryland
Coordinates39°16′24″N 77°01′52″W
Area3.2 acres (1.3 ha)
Built1773 (1773)
Architectural styleSouthern colonial
NRHP reference No.08001072[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 20, 2008

The main block is three bays wide by one bay deep, with a gambrel roof and 1-story hip-roofed porch. It features a long screened porch with exposed rafter tails and an 1820 stone kitchen addition. Also on the property is a stone slave quarters outbuilding and a small frame outbuilding.[5]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[1]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "WEEKLY LIST OF ACTIONS TAKEN ON PROPERTIES: 11/17/08 THROUGH 11/21/08". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-02.
  3. Barbara Feaga. Howard's Roads to the Past. p. 42.
  4. Celia M. Holland. Old homes and families of Howard County, Maryland: with consideration of various additional points of interest. p. 252.
  5. Kenneth M. Short (July 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Round About Hills" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
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