The original stone buildings,
built circa 1785, are excellent examples of early Chesapeake
architecture and one of the few existing stone buildings of
that period in Anne Arundel County. For over 150 years, this
was one of many farms that used Maryland's waterways to transport
produce to Baltimore and other ports. Occupied by the Hancocks
until 1962, it is an Historic Park in the Anne Arundel Park
System, operated by the Friends of Hancock's Resolution (FOHR).
The old farmstead has five major historic themes: 1- Daily
life on a pre-civil war Chesapeake "middling plantation",
1780-1860; 2- Commerce and Transportationon the Chesapeake
Bay in that period; 3- Military and Maritime Life on the Chesapeake
Bay focused on the War of 1812; 4- American Indian Lifeways
on the northeastern Chesapeake Bay (archaeology has turned
up a 3,000 year old campsite on the property); and, 5- Capt.
John Smith's visiting Bodkin Creek in 1608 on at least one
occasion.
If you want to see how average
Americans lived before the industrial age, this is the place
to visit. |