. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. to which the two wings now gracing it oneither side have been added within the last decade. Thehouse originally, had one wing on the west side, whichwas merely a brick addition without particular grace ofdesign. From the cellar of the house extends a sub-terranean passageway leading no one knows where,though busybodies assert that it goes to the water-frontand was used for smuggling in early days, a suppositionthat hardly obtains credence with those who know theposition and wealth of the builder of the mansion. Theinterior of the house has no parti
. Colonial mansions of Maryland and Delaware. to which the two wings now gracing it oneither side have been added within the last decade. Thehouse originally, had one wing on the west side, whichwas merely a brick addition without particular grace ofdesign. From the cellar of the house extends a sub-terranean passageway leading no one knows where,though busybodies assert that it goes to the water-frontand was used for smuggling in early days, a suppositionthat hardly obtains credence with those who know theposition and wealth of the builder of the mansion. Theinterior of the house has no particular detail of interestexcept a staircase which leads off to the left from thefront door. Another Carroll family of distinction was earlyseated in Saint Marys County, and the name has beenassociated with Susquehannah, a historic old homesteadof St. Marys County, Maryland, now destroyed. FromCapt. Henry Carroll came Governor Thomas KingCarroll, of Maryland, of Kingston Hall, SomersetCounty, Maryland. HAMPTON BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLANDRIDGELY. £> T is difficult to deal in superla-tives, but the most cautious andcanny of mortals might feel nohesitancy in saying that Hamp-ton, the seat of the Ridgelys(of Robert Ridgely) of Mary-land, is the largest colonialmansion in Maryland; and the historian, whose delvingmind cares little for the ordinary distinctions of greator small, would find in the traditions of the old home astore wherein he might learn, amongst other things,how large a part its occupants have played in thedevelopment of their state. The title colonial maybe denied to Hampton by the purist in terms, as itsfoundations were not laid until 1783—the very lastminutes of the colonial era in this county—but it is sopurely Georgian in design and so representative inspirit of the colonial era that the lover of things of thisperiod will always wish to have its acquaintance. Hampton is about thirteen miles due north ofBaltimore and about two miles north of Towson,Baltimore
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