Brooklandwood Plantation

1798

Built by Charles Carroll of Carrollton for his daughter, Mary Caton. Site of the first Maryland Hunt Cup and Grand National Races. Owned successively by John Cockey, Charles Carroll, George Brown, Captain Isaac Emerson and Saint Paul's School (established 1849).

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Brookland

Land Grant by Lord Baltimore, 1732

To present log wing, believed built in 1735, George Gale added fieldstone section c. 1781. Further additions to house were made in 19th century. Gale, born in Somerset County in 1756, served in Continental Army ...

Brookland Ferry Landing

This tablet marks

the Brookland Ferry Landing

from which point the American Army

embarked during the night

of August 29th, 1776

under the direction of

General George Washington

ably assisted by

Colonel John Glover

of Marblehead, Massachusetts

On March 17, ...