| 词条 | Oaklands (Laurel, Maryland) |
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| name = Oaklands, Contee | image = | caption = | nearest_city = Laurel, Maryland | coordinates = {{coord|39|04|33.1|N|76|51|41.2|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Maryland | area = | built = 1798 | architect = | architecture = Georgian Oaklands or Contee was a slave plantation owned by the Snowden family,[1] and remains as a historic home surrounded by residential development. The house is a three-story manor of brick construction,[2][3] and was built by Major Thomas Snowden and his wife Eliza Warfield from Bushy Park, Howard County. The {{convert|2000|acre|adj=on}} estate extended westward into modern Howard County. Richard Snowden inherited it from his father. His oldest daughter Anne Lousia Snowden inherited the estate and married Capt. John Contee, for whom "Contee" station of the B&O railroad was named.[4][5] In 1911, the estate was purchased by Charles R. Hoff and his wife who was a descendent of the Snowden family.[6] PresentThe Oakland manor is surrounded by residential development. Access to the property is off of 13700 Oaklands Manor Drive. See also
References1. ^{{cite web |title=Oaklands |url=http://mdihp.net/dsp_county.cfm?search=county&id=18227&viewer=true&updated=N&criteria1=O&criteria2=PG |accessdate=25 December 2014 |dead-url=yes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226051249/http://mdihp.net/dsp_county.cfm?search=county&id=18227&viewer=true&updated=N&criteria1=O&criteria2=PG |archive-date=December 26, 2014 |website=Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties |publisher=Maryland Historical Trust |date=March 3, 1999 }} 2. ^{{cite book|title=Prince George's County and the Civil War: Life on the Border|author1=Nathania A. Branch Miles |author2=Monday M. Miles |author3=Ryan J. Quick |page=100}} 3. ^{{cite book |title=The placenames of Maryland, their origin and meaning |author=Hamill Kenny Museum and Library of Maryland History, Maryland Historical Society|year=1984|page=67}} 4. ^{{cite book |title=The founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland|author=Joshua Dorsey Warfield |page=363}} 5. ^{{cite book |title=Tubman, Douglass, and Other Maryland Slave Narratives PRINT |author=Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Reverend Noah Davis, Josiah Henson, James W. C. Pennington, John Thompson, Henry Watson, Work Projects Administration}} 6. ^{{cite book |title=Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware |author=John Martin Hammond |page=96}} 4 : Houses completed in 1798|Buildings and structures in Laurel, Maryland|Houses in Prince George's County, Maryland|Georgian architecture in Maryland |
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