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Moving - Hollywood, Maryland
If you are looking for a local moving
company to relocate you in or out of Hollywood, MD, we can
help you. Movers USA’s moving services include packing,
crating, moving, and storage if you need some time to search
for your new home.
To help familiarize you with this fine
neighborhood, please read our brief history about
Hollywood, MD. It’s interesting.
A Brief History of Hollywood, Maryland
Sotterly Plantation, Hollywood, Maryland
1710,
James Bowles, son
of a wealthy London tobacco merchant and member of
Maryland's Lower House of the Assembly, purchased an 890
acre tract that would become Sotterley Plantation. In 1717,
he began building his house which today stands as an unique
record of a method of construction called post-in-ground
architecture, once common in the Tidewater regions.
Two years after the death of Squire
Bowles in 1727, his young widow, Rebecca, married George
Plater II. Over the years, the Plater family converted the
simple residence into a charming 18th-century manor house,
which they named after their ancestral home, Sotterley Hall,
in Suffolk, England. It was under
George Plater III,
sixth governor of Maryland, that the house reached its
distinctive form which was much admired by George
Washington, and perhaps served as a model for Mount Vernon.
The Chinese Chippendale staircase and the shell alcoves in
the drawing room, both carved by
Richard Boulton,
then an indentured servant, are considered among the finest
examples of 18th-century American woodwork.

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