Round About Hills

	Round About Hills
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Round About Hills, January 2011
Location	15505 Cattail Oaks, Glenwood, Maryland
Coordinates	39°16′24″N 77°01′52″W / 39.27333°N 77.03111°W
Area	3.2 acres (1.3 ha)
Built	1773
Architectural style	Southern colonial
NRHP reference No.	08001072
Added to NRHP	November 20, 2008

Round About Hills or Peacefields is a historic slave plantation home located at Glenwood, Howard County, Maryland. An alternate address for this house is 14581 McClintock Drive, Glenwood, Maryland.^[2] It was built about 1773 on a 266-acre land patent and consists of a 1+1⁄2-story frame house with a stone end. Thomas Beale Dorsey inherited the property in 1794 then exchanged his interest in the plantation with Thomas Cook's stagecoach wayside town Cooksville.^[3]^[4]

The main block is three bays wide by one bay deep, with a gambrel roof and 1-story hip-roofed porch. It features a long screened porch with exposed rafter tails and an 1820 stone kitchen addition. Also on the property is a stone slave quarters outbuilding and a small frame outbuilding.^[5]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "WEEKLY LIST OF ACTIONS TAKEN ON PROPERTIES: 11/17/08 THROUGH 11/21/08". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-02.
^ Barbara Feaga. Howard's Roads to the Past. p. 42.
^ Celia M. Holland. Old homes and families of Howard County, Maryland: with consideration of various additional points of interest. p. 252.
^ Kenneth M. Short (July 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Round About Hills" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.

External links

Round About Hills, Howard County at Maryland Historical Trust

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nps-2] "WEEKLY LIST OF ACTIONS TAKEN ON PROPERTIES: 11/17/08 THROUGH 11/21/08". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-02.

[3] Barbara Feaga. Howard's Roads to the Past. p. 42.

[4] Celia M. Holland. Old homes and families of Howard County, Maryland: with consideration of various additional points of interest. p. 252.

[mht_ihp-5] Kenneth M. Short (July 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Round About Hills" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.

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