Susquehanna Plantation Original Site, St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1942

THF249984 / Susquehanna Plantation Original Site, St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1942 / detail

Artifact Overview

Artifact

Slide (Photograph)

Date Made

1985

Subject Date

1942

Collection Title

Location

Not on exhibit to the public.

Object ID

EI.1929.2333

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Material

Plastic

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 2 in
Width: 2 in

Keywords	United States, Maryland, Patuxent (river) United States, Maryland, St. Mary's (county) Slides (Photographs) Clotheslines Houses Original sites Susquehanna Plantation

Artifact
Susquehanna Plantation
Henry Carroll owned this Maryland house on the Patuxent River in the decades before and after the Civil War. Its form -- one room deep with porches -- invited cooling breezes in the warm, humid climate. In 1860, the Carrolls raised tobacco and wheat on their 700-acre plantation. Seventy-five enslaved African Americans provided the skill and labor that supported the Carroll family's comfortable life.