Eastport in Annapolis in Anne Arundel County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
The Old Farmhouse
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Photographed by F. Robby, January 28, 2008
1. The Old Farmhouse Marker
This century-old farmhouse is one of the only reminders of the agrarian past of Eastport. Yet, in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, horse racing and farming were the economic mainstays. As late as 1798, there were only two buildings on all of Horn Point: a house and a blacksmith shop.
In the 1800s, most of the land was parceled out to small farmers who grew vegetables and fruit for sustenance and raised livestock for sale in Baltimore. This home was built for the Burns family in the 1890s and is a typical farmhouse of the period. Architecturally, the house appears as it once did, although it is now divided into apartments.
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Governor Benjamin Ogle used this land to raise some of Maryland's earliest racehorses. They were buried all around here.
Shells rowed by the Naval Academy crew club pass along Spa Creek in front of the old farmhouse.
Erected by Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network, Annapolis Maritime Museum, Four Rivers Garden Club. (Marker Number 14.)
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Agriculture • Animals • Settlements & Settlers • Sports. A significant historical year for this entry is 1798.
Location. This marker has been replaced by another marker nearby.
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Regionally, this marker was in Central Maryland. It was also in the American Mid-Atlantic and in the Chesapeake Bay Region. Globally, it was in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it found itself in what was once one of the original Thirteen Colonies and also the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this location: "Burnside" (within shouting distance of this marker); Eastport Veterans Park (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Welcome to Eastport (about 800 feet away); Lafayettes Encampment (approx. 0.2 miles away); Arnold C. Gay (approx. Ό mile away); Eastport's Old Main Street (approx. Ό mile away); a different marker also named A Tale of Three Bridges (approx. Ό mile away); The Watermen of Back Creek (approx. Ό mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Annapolis.
Other markers no longer nearby. Welcome to Eastport (was about 800 feet away but has been replaced with another marker now near it); On to Yorktown (was about 800 feet away but has been permanently removed); A Tale of Three Bridges (was approx. Ό mile away but has been replaced with another marker now near it); a different marker also named Eastport's Old "Main Street" (was approx. Ό mile away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).
Photographed by F. Robby, January 28, 2008
2. The Old Farmhouse
Photographed by F. Robby, January 28, 2008
3. The Old Farmhouse
Credits. This page was last revised on October 26, 2025. It was originally submitted on February 24, 2008, by F. Robby of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 3,017 times since then and 19 times this year. Last updated on April 5, 2021, by Carl Gordon Moore Jr. of North East, Maryland. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on February 24, 2008, by F. Robby of Baltimore, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
