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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST (Historic Sites Survey) var.d. MSA SE16-4 Image No: se16-4-0192 Enlarge and print image (69K) |
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST (Historic Sites Survey) var.d. MSA SE16-4 Image No: se16-4-0192 Enlarge and print image (69K) |
| NPS Form 10-900-a 0MB Approval No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places wmistonMiuHistoricDistrict-CAR-352 *% .. .. *HI_ . Name of Property Continuation Sheet Caroline County, Maryland Section 8 Page_2_ County and State the transferred property after the court settlement, the mill complex was described in the proceedings. The court papers stated that ....The premises possess the advantage of being convenient to a good Grist and Saw Mill belonging to John Collins, Esq. being a quarter mill distant.... John Collins had married Elizabeth G. Potter the year after her father's death, and the mill property remained in their family's control until 1856 when it was sold to partners Thomas F. Garey and Tilghman Nuttle.2 The 1856 property description outlined the improvements on the Potter lands as ...a certain parcel of the real estate of the said deceased consisting of a good Grist Mill, Inercition (sic) Bark Mill, a coarse Bark Mill and Saw Mill, together with a Tan Yard and the dwellings and appurtenances Thereunto belonging and all to the Mill Site, Mill lot and Tan Yard containing in all about 110 acres of Land for many years known as Potter's Mills. Eight months following the Potter transfer, Tilghman Nuttle and his wife Elizabeth sold their interests in the mill property to Thomas F. Garey for $1,000.3 Modest improvements were made on the house during the Garey tenure, which lasted until 1867.4 One of rim locks is dated 1856.5 In 1860, Thomas F. Garey's grist mill was included in the Manufacturers schedule of the United States census, which listed the capital investment at $6,000 with yearly output in corn at 10,000 bushels and wheat at 3,000 bushels, valued at $10,500 annually. The mill was listed under water power.6 Between 1867 and 1880 the mill complex was held by Shadrach Fountain Liden, who is designated at this location on the 1875 Map of Caroline County, printed by John B. Isler.7 It was during the S. Fountain Liden ownership that the first major remodeling took place on the house and some improvements were made to the mill. In the 1880 Manufacturers Schedule of the United States census S. F. Liden is listed as the owner of the mill with at two hands employed at busy times during the year. The census stated that the mill did both custom and general market milling, and that it was powered by a turbine.8 2 Caroline County Land Record, CC 85, 5 January 1856. 3 Caroline County Land Record, CC 252, 26 September 1856. 4 Caroline County Land Record, 32/302, 8 April 1867. 5 Paddy Richards copied the information off the back of one box lock during a painting program. The end date for the patent is December 11,1856. 6 Manufacturers Schedule for the Eighth Census of the United States, 1860 , Caroline County, provided by Patricia C. Guida. 1 John L. Graham, The 1877 Atlases and Other Early Maps of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1976, Wicomico County Bicentennial Committee, pp. 110-11. 8 Manufacturers Schedule for the Tenth Census of the United States, 1880, Caroline County, provided by Patricia C. Guida. |