National Register of Historic Places listings in Kent County, Maryland

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kent County, Maryland.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in Kent County

Kent County, Maryland

Kent County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland, on its Eastern Shore. It was named for the county of Kent in England. Its county seat is Chestertown. In 2010, the county population was 20,197...

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Maryland

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. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a Google map.

There are 40 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 2 National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark is a building, site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the United States government for its historical significance...

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| Airy Hill

Airy Hill

Airy Hill is a historic home located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-section dwelling consisting of a -story frame wing and a two-story Federal-style brick house. The brick section was added in the early 1790s, together with a middle section that now connects the two...

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39°11′34"N 76°5′36"W
| Chestertown

Chestertown, Maryland

Chestertown is a town in Kent County, Maryland, United States. The population was 4,746 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Kent County. The ZIP code is 21620 and the area codes are 410 and 443...

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| BERNICE J. (skipjack)

Bernice J. (skipjack)

The Bernice J. is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 in Young's Creek, Virginia, by W. Thomas Young of Parksley, who also built the Claude W. Somers. She is a two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop, commonly referred to as a skipjack. She worked dredging...

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| Town Dock
39°12′24"N 76°3′48"W
| Chestertown

Chestertown, Maryland

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| Betterton Historic District

Betterton, Maryland

Betterton is a town in Kent County, Maryland, United States. The population was 376 at the 2000 census.-Betterton Historic District:The Betterton Historic District consists of a collection of vernacular Victorian resort structures. The district includes many of the homes, hotels and cottages built...

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| Roughly bounded by the Sassafras River

Sassafras River

The Sassafras River is a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula in the United States. It is about long and starts in western New Castle County, Delaware, and along the boundary between Cecil County, Maryland on the north and Kent County, Maryland on the south...

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39°22′2"N 76°3′47"W
| Betterton

Betterton, Maryland

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| Brampton

Brampton (Chestertown, Maryland)

Brampton is a historic home located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland. It is a transitional Greek Revival / Italianate-influenced dwelling built about 1860. The main section of the house is a three story structure, constructed of brick with a symmetrical five-bay-wide facade and a depth of...

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| Maryland Route 20

Maryland Route 20

Maryland Route 20 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from Beach Road and Lawton Avenue in Rock Hall east to MD 291 in Chestertown. MD 20, which connects Chestertown with several villages in western Kent County, was designated one of the original state roads...

39°12′43"N 76°5′44"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Carvill Hall

Carvill Hall

Carvill Hall, also known as Carvill's Prevention or Salter's Load or Packerton, is a historic home located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland. It is a -story Flemish bond brick house, with exterior corbeled brick chimneys at each gable end. The main block was likely built about 1698...

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| Great Oak Estates, 10 miles west of Chestertown
39°15′34"N 76°12′6"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Chestertown Armory

Chestertown Armory

The Chestertown Armory is a historic National Guard armory built in 1931 and located in Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story brick structure with a full basement that emulates a medieval fortification. The front facade features an entryway flanked by simple two-story...

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39°12′11"N 76°4′3"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Chestertown Historic District
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Chester River

The Chester River is a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula. It is about long, and its watershed encompasses , which includes of land. Thus the total watershed area is 20% water. It forms the border between Kent County and Queen Anne's County, Maryland, with its...

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39°12′29"N 76°3′52"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Chestertown Railroad Station

Chestertown Railroad Station

Chestertown Railroad Station is a historic railway station built in 1902–03 for the Pennsylvania Railroad and located in Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland. It is a -story, Queen Anne–style building...

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| Cross St.
39°12′28"N 76°4′8"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Chesterville Brick House

Chesterville Brick House

Chesterville Brick House, also known as Goodings Store and Salter House, is a historic home and former commercial building located at Chesterville, Kent County, Maryland. It is a -story brick building, thought to have been built about 1773. The changed ownership many times...

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Maryland Route 290

Maryland Route 290 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from MD 300 at Dudley Corners north to MD 299 in Sassafras. MD 290 roughly parallels U.S. Route 301 , which it intersects twice, as it connects the communities of Crumpton in northern Queen Anne's County...

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Maryland Route 444

Maryland Route 444 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from MD 290 in Chesterville north to the end of state maintenance in Kentmore Park. MD 444 connects Chesterville and Kentmore Park with Locust Grove on MD 213. The state highway was constructed in the...

39°16′36"N 75°54′57"W
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Chesterville, Maryland

Chesterville is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland, United States.-References:...

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| Christ Church, Graveyard and Sexton's House

Christ Church, Graveyard and Sexton's House

Christ Church, Graveyard and Sexton's House is an historic Episcopal church complex located at Worton, Kent County, Maryland. The church, also known as Christ Church IU, is a small brick structure, basilican in plan, with a narrower sanctuary appended. It was built in 1765 to serve as the parish...

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Maryland Route 298

Maryland Route 298 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from MD 20 in Fairlee east to MD 291 near Chesterville. MD 298 is a C-shaped highway that connects Fairlee, MD 213, and Millington with several villages in central Kent County, including Worton, Lynch,...

39°17′26"N 76°5′32"W
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Worton, Maryland

Worton is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland, United States.-References:...

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| Clark's Conveniency

Clark's Conveniency

Clark's Conveniency is a historic home located near Pomona, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, early-18th-century brick house built in three sections: the main block and a wing on the east and west ends...

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39°8′27"N 76°7′18"W
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Pomona, Maryland

Pomona is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland, United States.-References:...

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| Denton House
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39°12′29"N 76°3′47"W
| Chestertown

Chestertown, Maryland

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| ELSWORTH
Elsworth (skipjack)
The Elsworth is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1901 at Hudson, Maryland. She is a two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 14.3', a depth of 3.1', and a gross registered tonnage of 8 tons...

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Fairlee Manor Camp House

The Fairlee Manor Camp House is a historic home located near Fairlee, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a "telescoping house" composed of a two-story, three-bay-long brick structure with a -story brick wing and a -story, 3-bay-long plank wing on each side in decreasing height and width....

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| 1.5 miles west of Fairlee off Maryland Route 445

Maryland Route 445

Maryland Route 445 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from Eastern Neck Island in the southwest corner of Kent County north to MD 21 in Tolchester Beach. MD 445 connects Rock Hall with the Tolchester Beach area as well as Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge...

39°14′33"N 76°12′12"W
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Fairlee, Maryland

Fairlee, Maryland is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland, United States.-References:...

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| Gobbler Hill

Gobbler Hill

Gobbler Hill is a historic home located at Chestertown in Kent County, Maryland, United States. It was built in 1858 and is a center-hall plan frame house on a foundation of local fieldstone and brick. It is five bays wide, two bays deep, and two stories tall with late Greek Revival / early...

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39°14′33"N 76°12′12"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Godlington Manor

Godlington Manor

Godlington Manor is a historic home located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a frame gambrel-roof structure with a long frame -story kitchen wing. The house features much of the original beaded clapboard...

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39°10′42"N 76°3′27"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| George Harper Store

George Harper Store

The George Harper Store is a historic crossroads general store located in Still Pond, Kent County, Maryland, united States. It is a late 19th century five-bay frame commercial structure, two stories high with a central entrance and gable roof. Attached to it is a series of later additions,...

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| Maryland Route 292

Maryland Route 292

Maryland Route 292 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from MD 298 near Still Pond north to Betterton, which is located where the Sassafras River flows into the Chesapeake Bay in northern Kent County. MD 292 was constructed between MD 213 and Betterton in...

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39°19′38"N 76°2′41"W
| Still Pond

Still Pond, Maryland

Still Pond is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland, United States. Much of the community is included in the Still Pond Historic District and it is notable as the first place in Maryland that women gained the right to vote.-Notable residents:...

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| Hebron

Hebron (Still Pond, Maryland)

Hebron is a historic home located near Still Pond, Kent County, Maryland. It is a two-story brick farmhouse probably constructed in the mid to late 18th century by members of a prominent Kent County Quaker family....

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Maryland Route 292

39°19′23"N 76°2′24"W
| Still Pond

Still Pond, Maryland

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| Hinchingham

Hinchingham

Hinchingham is a historic home located at Rock Hall, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story brick house with a -story brick wing, situated directly on the shore of Chesapeake Bay. It was built in 1774....

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Maryland Route 445

39°11′40"N 76°14′56"W
| Rock Hall

Rock Hall, Maryland

Rock Hall is a town in Kent County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,396 at the 2000 census.The town is a center for the fishing, crabbing, and oystering industries in Kent County as well as a home to marinas that cater to the pleasure craft that sail the Chesapeake Bay...

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| ISLAND IMAGE (log canoe)

Island Image (log canoe)

The Island Image is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built in 1885 at Elliot's Island, Maryland, by Herman Jones and Isaac Moore. She is 29'-8½" long with a beam of 5-10¼", and has a straight, raking stem and a sharp stern. It is privately owned, and races under No. 17...

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39°10′11"N 76°3′46"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Knocks Folly

Knocks Folly

Knocks Folly, also known as Janvier House and Barroll House, is a historic home located at Kennedyville, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is an unusual combination of a small, -story, mid-18th-century log home with a three-story, Federal brick wing....

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Maryland Route 298

39°21′6"N 75°59′4"W
| Kennedyville

Kennedyville, Maryland

Kennedyville is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland, United States.-References:...

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| Lauretum

Lauretum

Lauretum is a historic home located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a large, three story late Victorian stuccoed frame house built in 1881 for Chestertown lawyer Harrison W. Vickers . It features irregular massing, multiple roof forms, clipped gables, an oriel window,...

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39°13′10"N 76°5′8"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| NELLIE CROCKETT
Nellie Crockett (Buy-Boat)
The Nellie Crockett is a Chesapeake Bay oyster buy-boat built for Andrew A. Crockett of Tangier, Virginia, in 1925. She is located at Georgetown, Maryland, USA, on the Sassafras River....

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Sassafras River

39°21′47"N 75°52′55"W
| Georgetown

Georgetown, Maryland

Georgetown is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland, United States. The former Georgetown located in Montgomery County, Maryland, was incorporated into the District of Columbia when it was created in 1790.-References:...

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| Radcliffe Mill

Radcliffe Mill

The Radcliffe Mill is a historic grist mill and related structures located in Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It consists of a Mill Building, built in 1891; Grain Elevator, probably constructed around 1924; and Annex / Seed House...

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39°13′9"N 76°4′49"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Reward-Tilden's Farm

Reward-Tilden's Farm

Reward-Tilden's Farm, or The Reward, is a historic home located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland. It is a three bay long, two bay deep, two story, brick dwelling which appears to have been constructed in the 1740s....

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Maryland Route 289

Maryland Route 289 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as Quaker Neck Road, the state highway runs from the junction of Lands End Road and Cliffs City Road near Cliffs City north to MD 213 in Chestertown. MD 289 serves Quaker Neck, a peninsula between...

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39°9′8"N 76°8′39"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Rich Hill

Rich Hill (Sassafras, Maryland)

Rich Hill, also known as The Adventure or Griffith House, is a historic home located at Still Pond, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a 5-bay, -story brick building with a two-story brick kitchen wing, built about 1753....

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Maryland Route 299

Maryland Route 299 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from MD 313 and MD 330 in Massey in eastern Kent County north to U.S. Route 301 near Warwick in far southern Cecil County. MD 299 was constructed from Massey to the Sassafras River around 1930 and from...

39°22′7"N 75°48′27"W
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Sassafras, Maryland

Sassafras is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland, United States.-References:...

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| Rose Hill

Rose Hill (Chestertown, Maryland)

Rose Hill is a historic home located near Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland. It is a 40 foot square, two-story brick structure built during the latter half of the 18th century.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976....

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Maryland Route 213

Maryland Route 213 is a state highway located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the United States. The route runs from Maryland Route 662 in Wye Mills, Queen Anne's County north to the Pennsylvania border in Cecil County, where it continues into that state as Pennsylvania Route 841...

39°14′54"N 76°3′48"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| St. Paul's Church

St. Paul's Church (Fairlee, Maryland)

St. Paul's Church, also known as St. Paul's Church, Fairlee, is an historic Episcopal church located at Fairlee, Kent County, Maryland. It is an 18th century brick structure, dating to about 1712, measuring 30 feet by 40 feet with a semicircular apse on the east gable...

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39°11′11"N 76°10′47"W
| Fairlee

Fairlee, Maryland

Fairlee, Maryland is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland, United States.-References:...

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| Shepherd's Delight

Shepherd's Delight

Shepherd's Delight, also known as the House on Part of Camelsworthmore, is a historic home located at Still Pond, Kent County, Maryland. It has a four-bay-long, -story main section with porches both front and back, and a four-bay-long, -story kitchen wing. It was built between 1767 and 1783, and...

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Maryland Route 292

39°17′58"N 76°2′22"W
| Still Pond

Still Pond, Maryland

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| Shrewsbury Church

Shrewsbury Church

Shrewsbury Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Kennedyville, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a rural parish church constructed in 1834, and remodeled to its present vernacular Gothic-influenced appearance in 1890...

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39°19′44"N 75°58′3"W
| Kennedyville

Kennedyville, Maryland

Kennedyville is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland, United States.-References:...

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| SILVER HEEL (log canoe)

Silver Heel (log canoe)

The Silver Heel is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe, built in 1902, in Kent County, Maryland by Eugene Thompson for John Wesley Dickinson. She is a 33'-11" sailing log canoe in the racing fleet. She has a beam of 7'-3/4". She has a clipper bow, with the longhead braced to serve as a bowsprit, and a...

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39°7′45"N 76°5′50"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Still Pond Historic District

Still Pond Historic District

Still Pond Historic District is a national historic district located at Still Pond in Kent County, Maryland, United States. The district contains approximately 75 buildings dating from the early 19th century through the 1930s...

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39°19′42"N 76°2′40"W
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Still Pond, Maryland

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| Charles Sumner Post No. 25, Grand Army of the Republic

Charles Sumner Post No. 25, Grand Army of the Republic

Charles Sumner Post #25, Grand Army of the Republic is a historic fraternal lodge building located in Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland. It was constructed as a meeting hall about 1908 and is a two-story gable-front frame building, built on brick piers, with a rectangular floor plan...

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39°12′32"N 76°4′0"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Thornton

Thornton (Chestertown, Maryland)

Thornton is a historic family farm located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, United States. The farm is located on a plot on Morgan's Creek, a tributary of the Chester River. The main house is a -story, five-bay brick house, constructed about 1788, and principally Georgian in style. A -story...

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39°16′20"N 76°1′11"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Trumpington

Trumpington (Rock Hall, Maryland)

Trumpington is a historic home located at Rock Hall, Kent County, Maryland. Its Georgian plan main house is of Flemish bond brick construction five bays long, two rooms deep, and two and a half stories high. A -story brick wing is attached...

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Maryland Route 445

39°3′47"N 76°13′39"W
| Rock Hall

Rock Hall, Maryland

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| Valley Cottage

Valley Cottage (Georgetown, Maryland)

Valley Cottage, also known as Wallis House, is a historic home located at Georgetown, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story gambrel roofed structure consisting of a 42 feet long 18th century portion with a 16 feet long extension built in 1954.Valley Cottage was listed on the...

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39°21′37"N 75°52′51"W
| Georgetown

Georgetown, Maryland

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| Washington College: Middle, East and West Halls
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Washington College

Washington College is a private, independent liberal arts college located on a campus in Chestertown, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore. Maryland granted Washington College its charter in 1782...

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39°13′2"N 76°4′5"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| White House Farm

White House Farm (Chestertown, Maryland)

White House Farm is a historic home located at Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story stuccoed brick house, the original section of which was built in 1721. The house is located on an elevated site, within an informally landscaped yard which retains evidence of historic...

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Maryland Route 213

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Maryland Route 292

39°17′0"N 76°1′11"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Widehall

Widehall

Widehall, also known as Water Lot #16, is a historic home in Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland. It is a large, -story, mid-Georgian, brick dwelling house built in 1769 by Thomas Smyth. It later was the home of Robert Wright, Governor of Maryland between 1806 and 1809; and of Ezekiel F...

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39°12′27"N 76°3′50"W
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Chestertown, Maryland

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| Woodland Hall

Woodland Hall

Woodland Hall is a historic home located near Kennedyville, Kent County, Maryland.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.-External links:* at Maryland Historical Trust...

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39°20′2"N 75°56′19"W
| Kennedyville

Kennedyville, Maryland

Kennedyville is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Maryland, United States.-References:...

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