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Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site

Coordinates: 39°42′13″N 76°0′15″W / 39.70361°N 76.00417°W / 39.70361; -76.00417
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Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site
Jeremiah Brown Hill, July 2013
Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site is located in Maryland
Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site
Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site is located in the United States
Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site
Location1416 Telegraph Rd., Rising Sun, Maryland
Coordinates39°42′13″N 76°0′15″W / 39.70361°N 76.00417°W / 39.70361; -76.00417
Area30 acres (12 ha)
Built1734 (1734)
Built byBrown, Jeremiah, Sr.; Reese, Morris
NRHP reference No.87001391[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 2, 1987

Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site is a Colonial-era mill complex and national historic district at Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland, United States. It consists of two distinct halves: a two-story, three-bay, gable-roofed stone structure built in 1757 by Jeremiah Brown, Sr., a Quaker from Pennsylvania; and a two-story, two-bay gable-roofed frame house built in 1904 by John Clayton on the site of the original 1702 log wing. Also on the property is a small 19th century bank barn; a reconstruction of the original mill built on top of the stone foundations of the 1734 Brown Water Corn and Gristmill; and the foundations of an 18th-century saw mill.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1] The entire site is located within the grounds of the Plumpton Park Zoo.

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Geoffrey B. Henry (1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
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