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Moving - Londontowne, Maryland
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To help familiarize you with this fine
neighborhood, please read our brief history about
Londontowne, MD. It's interesting.
A Brief History of Londontowne, Maryland
The sole surviving building of the
hard-scrabble village of London Town is its grand exception.
During the 18th century, most of the white inhabitants
arriving in the port of London stepped on American soil as
bonded servants.
A lot came over in bondage as convicts,
says Stiverson of the people who settled the village that,
two and one-half centuries later, has come under his care.
You think of England sending its convicts to Australia, but
the only reason they sent them there was that we won the
Revolutionary War. Prior to that they sent them all over
here.
These early Marylanders lived in cramped
quarters, in post-in-the-hole buildings that swayed and
shook during the harsh winter nights.
The Brown House was London Town's first
great American success story. A carpenter, cabinetmaker,
ferryman and innkeeper, Brown settled in what was one of
Anne Arundel County's few towns during the 1700s. In a
tobacco port bustling with sailors and merchants, local
planters, slaves, small farmers and a variety of artisans,
Brown built himself a stately brick mansion. But the
ambitious contractor spent beyond his means and fell on hard
times.
Brown's personal hard times were shared by London Town.
Removed from the list of tobacco trade powerhouses after the
Revolutionary War, the town died.
Over the years, Brown's brick mansion
survived. Not without its own hard times. In our century, it
served as the Anne Arundel County almshouse until 1965.
Then, a group of local volunteers pushed
for the house to become an historic spot. Their success made
first the London Town Publik House, as it was called, and
then the garden the only London Town most 20th century
Marylanders knew.

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