Summary
Bohemia Farm, also known as Milligan Hall, is a historic home located on the Bohemia River at Earleville, Cecil County, Maryland. It is a five bays wide, Flemish bond brick Georgian style home built about 1743. Attached is a frame, 19th century gambrel-roof wing. The house interior features elaborate decorative plasterwork of the Rococo style and the full "Chinese Chippendale" staircase. It was "part-time" home of Louis McLane.[2]
Bohemia Farm | |
 Bohemia Farm land side in 1936 | |
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| Location | 4920 Augustine Herman Highway; 1 mi. S of Bohemia River off U.S. 213, Earleville, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°27′1″N 75°51′44″W / 39.45028°N 75.86222°W |
| Area | 130.2 acres (52.7 ha) |
| Built | 1743 |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| NRHP reference No. | 73000912[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 11, 1973 |
The estate was founded by Augustine Herman, a Bohemian-born cartographer from Mšeno.
Ephraim, the oldest son of Herman, was among the principal converts to the Labadist faith, a Frisian Pietist sect that practiced a form of Christian communism that emphasized asceticism, plain dress, gender equality, and universal priesthood. In 1683, Augustine Herman granted 3,750 acres (15 km2) of land to the Labadists to form a colony. The Labadist commune never managed to gain more than 100 settlers and ceased to exist after 1720.[3][4]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Michael Bourne (August 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bohemia Farm" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
- ^ Nead (1980). The Pennsylvania-German in the Settlement of Maryland. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 978-0-8063-0678-0.
- ^ "The Labadists of Bohemia Manor". Maryland Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
External links edit
- Bohemia Farm, Cecil County, including photo from 1970, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. MD-23, "Bohemia, Bohemias Mills, Cecil County, MD", 10 photos, 1 photo caption page, supplemental material