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Charles Smith House

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Last Updated: 09-12-2018

NR Eligible: yes MARYLAND IDSTORICAL TRUST DETERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY FORM no X

Property Name: Charles Smith House

Address:

City:

2030 Calvary Road (MD 136

Belair

USGS Quadrangle(s) : Bel Air

Zip Code: 21015

Inventory Number: HA-1066

Historic district: yes X no

County: Harford

Property Owner: Raymond Lioi, Valarie Lioi Tax Account ID Number: 01-088076

Tax Map Parcel Number(s) : 0002 Tax Map Number: 0057

Project: MD 543 at MD 136 Agency: MDOT SHA

Agency Prepared By: MDOTSHA

Preparer's Name: Consultant Architectural Historian Rebecca Crew Date Prepared: 02/06/2018

Documentation is presented in: Survey and Compliance Files

Preparer's Eligibility Recommendation: Eligibility recommended X Eligibility not recommended

Criteria: A B C D Considerations: A B C D E F G

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The Charles Smith House is set on a 54.246-acre parcel at the northwest comer of MD 543 (Fountain Green Road/ Creswell Road) and MD 136 (Calvary Road) in Creswell, Harford County, Maryland.

The main block is a two-story, four-bay-wide by one-bay deep stucco-clad stone dwelling with a replacement porch, a one-story vinyl-clad enclosed porch to the north, and a one-story vinyl-clad addition along the rear elevation. The main block's south end has a hipped roof and its north end has a side-gable roof. Architectural shingles cover the roofs of the main block and the additions.

The house 's primary elevation (faryade) faces east towards MD 543 . The facade is asymmetrical, with unevenly spaced openings. A four-bay, partial-width replacement porch shelters the main block's four first floor openings. Lattice obscures the porch piers; brick steps provide access at the north end of the porch and wide wooden steps span the second bay. The porch has a plain railing, turned posts, and a hipped roofed covered in standing-seam metal.

The main block's foundation is stone and its upper levels are stucco clad. The entrance, which is not in use, is in the second bay

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from the south and has a solid wood door with transom. The remaining first floor bays have three-light, double-leaf casement windows with nine-light-by-nine-light transoms. The second floor has four six-over-six hung- sash replacement windows with paneled shutters. The enclosed porch has a three-part sliding glass door on the east fas;ade.

The main block's north elevation is significantly obscured by the one-story north wing. The wing continues along the main block and then continues as an addition on the west (rear) side of the house. The wing's north elevation is composed of two sliding glass doors and a single, half glazed composite door. A large expanse devoid of openings is west of the door and a tall , interior chimney extends from this section of room.

The main block's north elevation has a single-off-center six-over-six replacement window with paneled shutters on its second story. The roof at the north end is gabled, with a small shed-roofed extension at the west side.

The main block's west elevation is significantly obscured by the one-story rear addition. The addition 's north half extends further west than the south half The north half has a large window comprised of four vertical lights aligned above a basement level crawlspace entry. The south half of the rear addition has two one-over-one sash windows of two different widths (but same height and elevation). The second story of the main block's west elevation has two interior, stucco chimneys on its north half The southern half has a single one-over-one sash window, a single-light fixed sash window, and a wooden louvered vent.

The south elevation exposes a vehicle-sized ground level opening in the rear addition. Above it, the main floor has a sliding glass door to access a shed roof porch which overhangs the garage below. The porch bas the same prefabricated railing as the front porch, but with square posts. The main block's south elevation has a six-light window in the stone basement level and one-overone vinyl sash windows with simulated nine-over-nine divided lights in the first and second stories. As mentioned in the previous documentation, exposed ends of logs project from the south elevation. The roof at the south end is hipped, and the north end of the roof was also hipped when the house was inventoried in 1979.

The property has contemporary gambrel roof barn and gable-roofed, 4-bay garage, both located to the north of the house. Three of the garage bays have paneled, pull-down doors while the western-most bay remains open for boat storage.

The Charles Smith House derives its name from its owner when it was first inventoried in the MIHP in 1979. Its historic name should be the Rebecca and Philip Tyson house because it was built during the ownership of Philip Thomas Tyson and his wife Rebecca Webster Tyson.

Philip Thomas Tyson ( 1799-1877) was part of the well-known Tyson family of Quaker industrialists. His grandfather, Elisha Tyson (1754-1824), was a miller, abolitionist, and philanthropist, born in Germantown, Pennsylvania but who moved to Baltimore in 1781 . Philip's paternal grandmother, Mary Amos, was from a Harford County family. Philip's father Isaac Tyson (1777-1864, son of Elisha) was a first cousin to another Isaac Tyson (1792-1861, son of Jesse), who founded the Baltimore Chrome Works Company; both Isaac Tysons were named after their grandfather Isaac Tyson (1718-1796, son ofRhiner Tisen, and husband of Esther Shoemaker). Philip Tyson's mother, Elizabeth Thomas, died in 1812 (1).

Philip Tyson's wife Rebecca Webster (ca . 1801-1886) was a daughter of John Skinner Webster and Elizabeth Thornburg. The Webster family owned large tracts ofland (including lands adjacent this property) and several mills in Harford County (2) . The earliest newspaper records of Philip T. Tyson, dating from 1820, show that he had flour and bran for sale at a dock in Baltimore (3).

Philip and Rebecca married in 1824 and their union produced no children. But Philip left a legacy as an early Maryland geologist;


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by 1825, Philip Tyson published an article in the American Farmer regarding geology and mineralogy (4). During 1830 Philip T. Tyson published his "Notice of some Localities of Minerals in the counties of Baltimore and Harford, Md." in the American Journal of Science and Arts (5). In 1833, the Maryland General Assembly directed the Governor to appoint an Engineer to collect and prepare surveys for a complete Geographical and Topographical Chart and to execute a Geological Survey. This work was conducted by John H. Alexander, Esq. Civil Engineer, and Professor Julius Ducatel of the University of Maryland in association with Philip Tyson (6). In 1837, Philip T. Tyson became one of two vice presidents for the Maryland Academy of Science and Literature, an organization that has evolved into the Maryland Science Center.

Philip Tyson conducted these scholarly geological activities while living in Baltimore, where he also ran a pharmacy business. In June 1830, Philip Tyson entered a partnership with William R. Fisher as Tyson & Fisher, a Drug and Apothecary business at No. 192 Baltimore Street (7) . In 1836, Tyson & Fisher dissolved their drug and chemical business partnership. William R. Fisher continued the business, while Tyson devoted himself to the practical application of mineralogy and chemistry (8).

This practical application was in the form of mining and iron production. In 1835, the Maryland General Assembly passed an act to incorporate the George' s Creek Coal and Iron Company in Alleghany County on lands owned by John T. Alexander and Philip T . Tyson (9). Philip Tyson served as the Superintendent of the George' s Creek Coal and Iron Furnace for a time before 1839, during its construction. However, the remote location of George' s Creek, Lonaconing, made transportation of goods difficult, and Tyson and Alexander began leasing the furnace to others in 1845; the furnace was shut off for good in 1856 ( I 0) .

Rebecca Webster Tyson 's father, John Skinner Webster died in 1834. He had lived at the farm adjacent to the subject property, and because he had extensive land holdings, Rebecca may have inherited the subject property at this time. By 1840, Philip Tyson was enumerated in Harford County. He headed a household including his wife, another white adult, and a free black adult.

In 1841 , Philip T. Tyson published a notice of his property for sale, matching the description of the subject property, "The subscribers offer for sale a valuable farm, situated in Harford County, about 25 miles from Baltimore, two miles from Bush, and in the neighborhood of Churchville, Deer Creek, Perryman's Depot, Bel Air, and Abingdon. The land consists of about 212 acres, of which 50 acres are in thriving timber, and the balance well inclosed (sic), and in a good state of cultivation, having recently been well manured with bones, lye, &c. The present crop consists of about eighty acres of Clover and fifty of Com, Oats and Roots, together with a young thriving orchard, with well selected fruit trees. The property has an abundant supply of excellent water and a saw mill which may be put in work at a very small expense. The improvements consist of a new and well arranged stone dwelling house, with convenient sized rooms- also the necessary out-buildings. The proximity of this property to the railroad and navigating waters, furnish cheap and expeditious means of transportation to Baltimore of Philadelphia (I!) ."

This advertisement indicates that the Charles Smith House was built ca. 1840 as a six-room house, which seems consistent with the size of the main block (the interior was not accessible during this evaluation) . The previous MIHP form, prepared in 1979, suggested that the house was built in two phases. Many houses in the immediate area, including those associated with the Webster family, have uneven fenestration due to phased construction, including Broom's Bloom (HA-1075). It is possible that an older portion once stood to the south of the house, as log ends extend from the southeast comer of the house.

However, Philip Tyson did not succeed in selling the property and subsequently defaulted on payments, likely associated with the construction of the Charles Smith House. In 1844, the Chancery High Court appointed John H .B. Latrobe, Trustee, to sell at public auction, on November 5, 1844, on the premises, "All that farm hitherto occupied by Philip T. Tyson, situate on the west side of the road leading from Bush to Churchville, and the distance of two and a half miles from Bush and one mile from Harford Furnace. The land binds for upwards of two hundred perches on the road from Bush to Churchville which is its eastern boundary, and its entire western boundary in Broad run- on the north, it is divided by a straight line from the land of John Emory, and on the south




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by a straight line from the land of Jos. W. Patterson and George Williams. It is well watered, and there is a good water power, with a saw mill , ( out of repair) upon the land on Broad Run. The whole tract contains about 212 acres, of which between forty and fifty are in wood, and about one hundred of the balance is enclosed and under cultivation, the greater part of it having been manured with lime and bones. There is a young orchard of about 200 good fruit trees planted 4 years since, and just coming into bearing. The improvements consists of a stone dwelling two stories high with six rooms, a frame kitchen, and the usual offices and out houses in good repair, the dwelling having been recently built in the best manner (12)."

The brief occupation of the house by Philip and Rebecca Tyson came at a time when Philip had not yet found a way to afford a life of scholarly pursuit of mineralogy and geology. In 1849, he took an expedition to California, from San Francisco through the Sierra Nevada foothills to assess their potential for gold prospects and the general geology of the region. He produced the first regional map with geologic notations and topographic/geologic cross-sections (13). By 1850, the Tysons returned to Baltimore and resided in the household of Rebecca's mother, Elizabeth Webster, at the 1850 Census and later in their own home on Linden Street. Philip Tyson became the second Maryland State Agricultural Chemist, holding the office from 1858-1862. During this period, in 1858, Tyson discovered the fossilized teeth of a dinosaur in Muirkirk, Maryland. This was the first discover of dinosaur fossils in Maryland, and the species, Astrodonjohnstoni, became the Maryland State dinosaur in 1998 (14). Philip Tyson died in 1877 and Rebecca Tyson died ca. 1886.

As described in the original MIHP form for the Charles Smith House, prepared by Natalie Shivers in 1979, Joseph Barker Stevenson of Carlisle, Pennsylvania acquired the property in 1845, but it is not likely that Stevenson occupied the property. In 1847, Stevenson conveyed the entire property to Thomas Hanway, who erected a store at the crossroads at some time before the 1858 publication of Jennings & Herrick Map of Harford County. Thomas Hanway appears in the 1850 and 1860 Censuses as a farmer with a wife, Sarah, 20 years his junior, and a growing family. The household included seven children in 1850 and 4 free African Americans: Joseph McC!ane (age 30), William Downs (age 40), Ann Black (age 20), and Hannah Black (age 15). By 1860, Thomas and Sarah had ten living children: Benjamin F., Harriett, George William, Joseph, Timothy L., Thomas, Jr.., Sarah, David, Mary, and Edward (15). The household included no live-in employees at that date.

Thomas Hanway died in 1865 and his property was divided among his widow and sons. The land south of Fountain Green Road was passed to Benjamin F. Hanway and Thomas, Jr. The store and a stone tenement on one acre passed to George William Hanway. The main house and surrounding acreage was left to his widow and three sons, Timothy, David, and Edward. Sarah Hanway continued to live here until she sold it in 1886 to J. Thomas Webster (1842-1912) and his wife Susanna (16) . No direct relationship is documented between J. Thomas Webster and Rebecca Webster Tyson; J. Thomas Webster was the son of John Lester Webster who had a farm at Level, Harford County and died in 1869; J. Thomas Webster and his brothers sold the Level Home Farm in 1881 (17) . In 1889, J. Thomas Webster was listed in a Trade Directory of Canned Goods Packers of North America as a tomato packer in Creswell , MD (18). By 1890, J. Thomas Webster placed advertisements to sell the Creswell farm, describing it as "in good condition, with splendid spring water and a well at the kitchen door. .. splendid for a city gentleman" which may suggest that Webster added the fashionable hipped porch and double-leaf windows across the far;:ade (19). J. Thomas Webster also traded in sheep and other real estate during the brief time he owned this property (20). J. Thomas Webster and his wife sold the property to Frederick W. Smith in 1893 for $4,250 (21).

The Smith family retained ownership of the property from 1893 to 2003 (22). As noted in the MIHP form for the property, F.W. Smith and sons were growers and packers of Scotland Brand com and tomatoes. Canning became a significant industry in Harford County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employing the second highest number of workers. Between 1880 and 1959 close to 700 canning companies have been identified in Harford County, and a map of these sites places one at the location of the Charles Smith House (23). However, no physical evidence of the connection between the property and its canning history remain extant. Additional documentary evidence includes the 1919 Directory of Canners in the United States, in which F.W.




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Smith & Son of Creswell packed com, peas, and tomatoes, and the Directory of the Tri-State Packers of 1927, in which F.W . Smith & Sons of Creswell packed com and tomatoes (24).

The Charles Smith House derives its name from the owner with the original MIHP form was written in 1979. The Charles Smith House is not eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. While the property was once associated with milling and canning, there is no remaining physical evidence of these activities and the extant structures do not represent these significant patterns in regional history. The property is not eligible under Criterion A.

The Charles Smith House is associated with a significant person in state history, Philip Thomas Tyson, who lived here from approximately 1840-1844. Mr. Tyson is best known for his work surveying Maryland's and California' s geology, co-founding the George's Creek Coal and Iron Company, discovering the Maryland State Dinosaur, and serving as the Maryland State Agricultural Chemist from 1858-1862. These activities are not significantly represented by this Harford County dwelling. The Charles Smith House is not eligible for listing under Criterion B.

The Charles Smith House was once a striking abode of understated sophistication. However, it has undergone significant alterations that have diminished its unique characteristics. The overall design has been obscured by the addition of wings clad in synthetic siding that do not complement the original block, and the hip roof has been awkwardly converted to a gable roof. The elegant front porch balustrade has been replaced with mass-produced elements, and many of the windows have been replaced. Despite the retention of the four double-leaf French doors with transoms accessing the porch, the house has lost too much design and material integrity to convey its architectural significance, and it is not eligible for listing under Criterion C.

The Charles Smith House was not evaluated under Criterion Das part of this assessment.

The survey boundary includes the entire parcel at 2030 Calvary Road, Harford County Tax Map 57, Parcel 2, containing 54.246 acres.

(!)Emi ly Emerson Lantz, "Maryland Heraldry: Tyson Lineage and Arms." The Sun, January 22, 1905. (2)"Webster, John Lee." A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature 1635-1789 by Edward C. Papenfuse, et. al. Volume 426, Page 873. Available online at http://rnsa.maryland.gov/megafile/rnsa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/00000 l /000426/htrnl/am426--873.htrnl (access February 1, 2018). (3)Advertisement. Baltimore Patriot, September 2, 1820, pg. 3. (4)"Water." Hampshire Gazette, December 7, 1825, pg. 2. (5)Maryland Geological Survey, Volume 1, 1897, pg. 56. Available on line at Archives of Maryland Online http://aomol.msa .maryland.gov/000001/000423/htrnl/am423--56.html (accessed January 29, 2018). (6)"Notice." American and Commercial Daily Advertiser, June 12, 1830, pg. I . (?)"Advertisement." Baltimore Gazette and Daily Advertiser, July 6, 1836, pg. 3. (8)Map and Geological Survey of Maryland. Boston Daily Advertiser, May 22, 1833, pg. 2. (9)Session Laws, 1835, pg. 566. Available online at Archives of Maryland Online http ://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/OOOOO 1/000214/htrnl/arn214--567 .html (accessed January 29, 2018). (10) Katherine Harvey. Lonaconing Furnace (MIHP # AL-VI-B-004) National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, available online at https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/Medusa/PDF/Allegany/AL-VI-B-004.pdf (accessed February 1, 2018). (! !)"Valuable Farm for Sale," American and Commercial Daily Advertiser, June 9, 1841 , pg. 3. ( 12)"Valuable Property for sale in Harford County," American and Commercial Daily Advertiser, October I 6, 1844, pg. 4. ( l 3)K. R. Aalto (2017) Philip Tyson's 1849 study of California gold prospects . Earth Sciences History: 2017, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 30-40. Abstract online at http://earthscienceshistory.org/doi/l 0.17704/1944-6178-36. l .30 (accessed February 1, 2018).




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(14)Maryland State Symbols. Maryland Manual Online at

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http://msa.maryland .gov/msa/mdmanual/01 glance/html/symbols/dino.html (accessed February 5, 2018). ( 15)Harriett Hanway married John Goldsmith Rouse and became the grandmother of developer James Rouse. (16)ALJ 56: 208 (1886) . (I ?)"Farms Sold." Southern Aegis, February 11, 1881 , pg. 3. Also, Southern Aegis, April 17, 1885, pg. 3. (18) WSF 75 : 211 (1893) . Also, "Sales of Land." Southern Aegis, November 18, 1892, pg. 4. (19) Ed Kee, Saving Our Harvest: The Story of the Mid-Atlantic Region's Canning and Freezing Industry. Baltimore: CTU Publications, Inc., 2006. Pg. 303 . (Appendix I , Directory of Canners, 1889, The Trade Directory of Canned Goods Packers of North American, published at The Trade Printing Rooms, Baltimore, MD 1889) (20) For Sale. Southern Aegis, May 16, 1890, pg. 4. (21 ) Southern Aegis, June 19, 1891 , pg. 4. (22) 4404: 266 (2003) . (23) Canning Industry. Available online at http://harfordhistory.org/canningindustry.php (accessed February 5, 2018). (24) Kee, pg. 325 and 368-69.



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HA-1066: Charles Smith House 2030 Calvary Road, Bel Air, MD 21015 Harford County, Bel Air Quad

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HA-1066: Charles Smith House 2030 Calvary Road, Bel Air, MD 21015 Harford County, Bel Air Quad

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Project No.: HA500A21

Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration

Cultural Resources Section Photo Log

Project Name: MD 543 at MD 136 MIHP No.: HA-1066 MIHP Name: Charles Smith House County: Harford Photographer: Rebecca Crew Date: July 18, 2017 Ink and Paper Combination: Epson UltraChrome pigmented ink/Epson Premium Luster Photo Paper CD/DVD: Verbatim, CD-R, Archival Gold

Ima2e File Name Description of View HA-1066 2017-07-18 01 View facing west towards house. HA-1066 2017-07-18 02 View facing northwest towards house. HA-1066 2017-07-18 03 View facing southeast towards rear of house. HA-1066 2017-07-18 04 View facing north towards house. HA-1066 2017-07-18 05 View facing northeast towards barn.

Maryland Historical Trust Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form

Name Charles Smith House Addendum-December 2010

Number_ Page 1

Inventory No. HA-1066

The Charles Smith House has experienced substantial changes since it was originally surveyed. First, the original hipped roof has been replaced by a partially side gable roof (the south end retains the hip while the north end is gabled). Second, the porch has been at least partially rebuilt with the balustrade replaced with prefabricated balusters and the columns replaced by "Home Depot" type turned wood posts. In addition, a sunroom addition has been made to the north end of the house. Due to these changes, the integrity of the house has been substantially compromised.

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CharlesSmith House 2030 CaVafry Road Bel Air, Maryland 21014

This farm has been in the hands of the Smith family since 1893. when J. Thomas Webster sold it to Frederick W. Smith. F.W. Smith « Sons were growers and packers of "Scotland brand" corn and tomatoes. Prior to that, Thomas Hanway had owned the farm which included this house as well as a store and stone tenement.

The house has been remodelled extensively, leaving only exposed log ends in one corner as a clue to its earlier identity.

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—VICINITY OF C r e s w e l l , Md. STATE „ . , COUNTY

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QCLASSIFICATION CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS PRESENT USE

—DISTRICT _PUBLIC ^-OCCUPIED —AGRICULTURE _MUSEUM £_BUILDING(S) ^PRIVATE —UNOCCUPIED —COMMERCIAL —PARK —STRUCTURE —BOTH —WORK IN PROGRESS —EDUCATIONAL ^PRIVATE RESIDENCE

—SITE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE -ENTERTAINMENT —RELIGIOUS

—OBJECT _ | N PROCESS —YES: RESTRICTED —GOVERNMENT —SCIENTIFIC

—BEING CONSIDERED —YES: UNRESTRICTED —INDUSTRIAL —TRANSPORTATION

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QOWNER OF PROPERTY '. I NAME

Charles E. Smith T e l e p h o n e # : STREET & NUMBER

2030 Cavalry Road CITY. TOWN STATE , Z i p COCle

B e l A i r , VICINITY OF Maryland 2101*+

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kO South Main S t . CITY. TOWN STATE

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^.EXCELLENT _DETERIORATED —UNALTERED A_ORIGtNAL SITE

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DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Four bays wide and one bay deep, this two-story, hip-roofed house located on the west side of Cavalry Rd. (Md. Rte. 136) just north of the intersection with Fountain Green Road (Md. Rte. 5^3) has been stuccoed and its origins obscured.

With recent additions on the north end and west side, the house is raised on a stone foundation and has a hip-roofed porch spanning the front-or east-facade. Windows have 6/6 sash and louvered shutters, and there are two brick chimneys on the west side.

The east facade has an entrance in the second from the south bay. The two bays to the north and the bay to the south contain casement doors with small-paned transoms. Windows in the second story are aligned with the openings in the first story. The door has six panels and a three-light transom; the porch has a fret railing, chamfered posts, and curved brackets.

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Q SIGNIFICANCE

O PERIOD AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE-CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW

—PREHISTORIC —ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC —COMMUNITY PLANNING —LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE —RELIGION — 1400-1499 —ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC —CONSERVATION —LAW —SCIENCE — 1500-1599 ^-AGRICULTURE —ECONOMICS —LITERATURE —SCULPTURE

— 1600-1699 ^ARCHITECTURE —EDUCATION —MILITARY —SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN

— 1700-1799 —ART —ENGINEERING —MUSIC —THEATER

&1800-1899 —COMMERCE —EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT —PHILOSOPHY —TRANSPORTATION

— 1900- —COMMUNICATIONS —INDUSTRY —POLITICS/GOVERNMENT —OTHER (SPECIFY)

—INVENTION

SPECIFIC DATES BUILDER/ARCHITECT

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE In 1845, Philip and Rebecca Tyson lost their 212 acre plantation to Joseph Barker

Stevenson of Carlisle, Pa., when they defaulted on their mortgagg. Stevenson owned it for only two years before he sold it to Thomas Hanway for $4252.

Hanway set up a store (with an attached dwelling) at the northwest corner of Cavalry Road and Fountain Green Road and farmed the rest of the land. When he died in 1862, 150 acres went to his sons, B. Franklin and Thomas; the store, a stone tenement and one acre went to his son, George William; and Hanway's wife and three sons, Timothy Littleton, David, and Edward Clinton were given the dwelling house and "sixty or seventy acres'1.^

The latter is the parcel that J. Thomas Webster purchased for 05000 in 1886. In 1895, Webster sold it to Frederick W. Smith-' and it has been in the Smith family

since then. A 1920 advertisement tells us that F.W. Smith & Sons were growers and

•ckers of "Scotland Brand" corn and tomatoes and that the business was established in 88.

It is not clear when the present house was built. A picture of it in 1920 shows that it was much the same then as now* The unevenly-spaced fenestration of the east side implies an incongruent structure; i.e. one that was built in several stages. The house has been stuccoed, however, so most clues to its origins were ohsc^radU An apparently significant clue lies in the ends of logs in the southeast corner that were left exposed.

The 1858 Jennings & Herrick Map shows that there was a structure belonging to "J. Hanway" and a store here; and the I878 Martenet's Map confirms that, indeed, Mrs. Hanway did retain ownership of the structure, and the store remained after Thomas Hanway's death in 1862.

Stylistic features like the fret railing and casement doors with small-paned transoms suggest a late 19th century or early 20th century date. It is possible that those details were signs of a later renovation and that at least part of the house was the structure designated on earlier maps.

Footnotes

1 HD 50/55^ 2 HDG 55/206

3 Will Records 7/857

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QMAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Land & Will Records of Harford County Aegis; H i s t o r i c a l & I n d u s t r i a l Ed i t ion ; 1920; Bel A i r , Md.

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VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION

LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES

STATE COUNTY

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IflFORM PREPARED BY NAME/TITLE

Natalie Shivers, Historic Sites Surveyor ORGANIZATION DATE

Harford County Historic District Commission July* 1979 STREET & NUMBER TELEPHONE

k5 S. Main S t . 301-879-2000 e x t . 207 CITY OR TOWN STATE

Bel Air, Maryland

The Maryland Historic Sites Inventory was officially created by an Act of the Maryland Legislature, to be found in the Annotated Code of Maryland, Article 41, Section 181 KA, 1974 Supplement.

The Survey and Inventory are being prepared for information and record purposes only and do not constitute any infringement of individual property rights.

RETURN TO: Maryland Historical Trust The Shaw House, 21 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401 (301) 267-1438

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877/600 July 27, 1971 Grantor: Mary 0. Smith, unmarried Grantee: Charles E. & Mary Grace Smith Acreage: 55 Acres

GCB 257/376 October 18, 1959 Grantor: Frederick W. & Sara E. Smith Grantee: Mary 0. Smith, unmarried Acreage: 60 Acres

WSF 75/211 March 9, 1893 Grantor: J. Thomas & Susanna Webster Grantee: Frederick W. Smith Acreage: 60 Acres Sum: $2250 and assumption of $2000 Mort.

A U 56/208 April 8, 1886 Grantor: Sarah Ann Hanway, widow; T. Littleton & Elizabeth Hanway; David & Mary E. Hanway; Edward Clinton & Julia W. Hanway

Grantee: J. Thomas Webster Acreage: 60 Acres Sum: $5000

Will Book 7/857 1862 Devisor: Thomas Hanway To wife Sarah-"All the part of plantation whereon I now reside" and to three sons Timothy Littleton, David & Edward Clinton, all tract devised to wife-upon her death

Acreage: 60-70 Acres

HDG 35/206 April 13, 18^7 Grantor: Joseph B. Stephenson of Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Pa.

Grantee: Thomas Hanway Acreage: 212 Acres Sum: $*f252

HD 30/33*+ March 1, 18̂ +5 Grantor: John H.B. Latrobe, Trust. Grantee: Joseph Barker Stevenson of Carlisle,

Cumberland Co., Pa. (Chancery Court: American Life Insurance & Trust Co., American Life Ins. & Trust Co. vs. Philip & Rebecca Tyson; all that farm or plantation formerly occupied by Philip T. Tyson.)

Acreage: 212 Acres

MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST WORKSHEET

NOMINATION FORM for the

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES, NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE

Charles Smith House HA-1066

Natalie Shivers June, 1979 Southeast

maryland idstorical trust determination …...philip tyson's wife rebecca webster (ca....

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