Mount Pleasant (Union Bridge, Maryland)
Mt. Pleasant, also known as the Clemson Family Farm, is a historic home located at Union Bridge, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It is a five-bay by two-bay, 2+1⁄2-story brick structure with a gable roof and built about 1815. Also on the property is a brick wash house, a hewn mortised-and-tenoned-and-pegged timber-braced frame wagon shed flanked by corn cribs, and various other sheds and outbuildings. It was the home farm of the Farquhar family, prominent Quakers of Scotch-Irish descent who were primarily responsible for the establishment of the Pipe Creek Settlement.
Mt. Pleasant was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Scharf, J. Thomas (1968). History of western Maryland : being a history of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett counties from the earliest period to the present day; including biographical sketches of their representative men. Baltimore, Maryland: Regional Publishing Company. p. 790. ISBN 9780806345659. OCLC 444161. Retrieved January 2, 2013.
- ^ Kenneth M. Short (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mt. Pleasant" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
External links
- Mt. Pleasant, Carroll County, including photo from 2006, at Maryland Historical Trust
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