Description
According to Earle, "About eight miles northwest of Towson and two miles from the Gunpowder, situated on a knoll in the beautiful Worthington Valley, surrounded by large oak, maple, spruce and birch trees, is 'Hayfields,' the ancestral home of Col. Nicholas Merryman Bosley. 'Hayfields was built by hand labor from plans drawn by Colonel Bosley in the sand with his cane, and today the plan is considered ideal--door opposite window, or window opposite window. About ten acres of lawn and the garden, comprising three terraces, are surrounded by a stone wall. The estate contains about five hundred acres and is equipped with its own blacksmith shop, wagon sheds, large barns and barracks for storing the crops for which the place is noted. Colonel Bosley was of English descent and having no children left the place to his great-nephew and his wife's great-niece, John Merryman and Anne Louisa Gittings, for their lives, and at their deaths to their oldest son (that old English law of primo-geniture). Nicholas Bosley Merryman inherited the place in 1896 upon the death of his mother. When Lafayette, in 1824, paid his second visit to this country, he presented a prize for the best cultivated farm in the state. This prize, a beautiful tankard of old English silver, was awarded to Colonel Bosley, and is in the possession of the family. The farm land is unusually beautiful, with rolling green pasture fields and running water. An interesting feature of this place is the substantial appearance of all...
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Digital Reproduction Of 1 Hand Colored Lantern Slide, 6 X 7 Cm.
