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U.S. to Seek Input on Use of Land
State Purchase Aims To Protect Douglas Point, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2001
By Monte Reel, Washington Post Staff Writer

Maryland Buys Land on Potomac
Residents Rallied To Preserve Parcel, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2001
By Monte Reel, Washington Post Staff Writer

Nanjemoy's Future Is Activists' Agenda
Residents Unite, Draw Up Vision Plan, Sunday, June 3, 2001
By Monte Reel, Washington Post Staff Writer

Land Trust Negotiates to Buy River Site
Mining Firm May Sell 1,224 Acres, Sunday, June 17, 2001
By Monte Reel, Washington Post Staff Writer

Mining Company Drops Court Challenge
By Nancy Trejos, Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 8, 2001

 

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<Mount Pleasant><George Washington><Historical Facts about the Nanjemoy Area>

Friendship Landing
provided by Janet Scott Cox

"The Nanjemoy Nature Reserve" property, originally part of a patent tract first known as "Guither" and later as "Friendship," is traditionally believed to be the site of the home of Col. William Dent, a prosperous merchant-planter, attorney and legislator who died in 1704.
A small, two room, timber framed dwelling that formerly stood on this land and widely thought to have been Dent's home was acquired by the Historical Society of Charles County in 1968, disassembled and in 1976 reconstructed on the campus of CCCC near La Plata. The house is owned by the College and maintained as a museum by the historical society under a long-term lease arrangement. An eighteenth century granary was also removed from the site in 1968 and has since been reconstructed on privately owned property near Port Tobacco.
At the time the house and granary were acquired, an attempt was made to research the history of the property on which these buildings formerly stood. This endeavor resulted in the collection of some documentary materials but the research was not completed and the record remained fragmentary and confused. On the basis of the research and local tradition the house has been interpreted as Col. Dent's ca 1690 dwelling."
The above information is from a report held by the CSM Studies Center
A Tract History of the Nanjemoy Nature Reserve, Chas. Co., MD
by J. Richard Rivoire, March 1993
Item Call # at CSM: MD F 189.N3R5 1993
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