The widow Eilbeck, mentioned in Washington’s diary, lived here. Her daughter, Ann Eilbeck, married Col. George Mason of Gunston Hall, Virginia. Araby built about 1700.

Marker is on Hawthorne Road (Maryland Route 225) 0.4 miles east of Chicamuxen Road (Maryland Route 224), on the right when traveling east.

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