Mount Dillon
| Moutn Dillon | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Status | Destroyed |
| Completed | c. 1770s |
| Owner | Daniel Carroll |
Mount Dillon was an estate and plantation in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It was located on a then-rural part of the road to Frederick, seven miles from the town of Baltimore, and two miles north of the location where Catonsville later developed, whose residental sprawl now encompasses the site of the former estate.
The estate was built around the 1770s by a Daniel Carroll. Carroll had leased adjacent land by the estate which he named Dillonsfield, which became Johnnycake Town by the early 19th century, now also in north Catonsville. To the west, large swaths of land were also owned by his brother Nicholas Carroll.[1]
Mount Dillon was owned since 1846 by Samuel Kirk Crosby and still had its old slaves' quarters when Crosby arrived.[2][1] Tracts of land from the estate were sold in the 1910s,[3][4] and it was entirely sold to a Dr. Henry M. Rowe in 1919.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Mt. Dillon, Catonsville, MD". The Baltimore Sun. May 21, 1905. Retrieved December 16, 2024.
- ^ Keidel, George Charles (1944). Early Catonsville and the Caton Family. J.H. Furst Company. pp. 110–111.
- ^ "Real Estate and The Courts". The Baltimore Sun. July 20, 1916. Retrieved December 16, 2024.
- ^ "Real Estate — Courts". The Baltimore Sun. August 9, 1919. Retrieved December 16, 2024.
- ^ "Real Estate — Courts". The Baltimore Sun. April 30, 1919. Retrieved December 16, 2024.