"Burnside"

"Burnside". . , William H. Burns, army veteran and railroad man, built this house in the 1890s on his country estate called "Burnside." Over the next 25 years, he subdivided and sold portions of his land as residential lots to accommodate the area's increasing population., For more than 150 years, the peninsula between Spa Creek and Back Creek was owned by Richard Hill, colonial planter, merchant, legislator, and provincial judge, and his descendants. Th last of the family to hold the land was Richard's great, great, granddaughter, Henrietta Margaret Hill Ogle. Her husband was Governor Benjamin Ogle, who died in 1809 and may have been buried on his wife's land. After Henry Margaret's death in 1815, brothers George and john Barber bought 645 acres of the Hill's Horn Point Farm. They sold several parcels of land over the next 50 years, but most of it continued to be farmland., After the death of the last Barb er owner, the remaining 306 acres was divided into two large parcels and a few smaller ones. One parcel of 101 acres became Eastport. Another 200 acres was bought by Henry H. Lockwood, a professor of physical science and naval history at the Naval Academy. Lockwood, who lived at the Academy, employed farmer Job Griscom to cultivate his land. Griscom kept dairy cows and poultry and sent vegetables to market by boat. In 1894, Lockwood sold 187 acres of his land to William Henry Burns for $8,000., Forty-eight-year-old Burns was born in Boston and served in Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he went west to Omaha, Nebraska, where he was employed by the Union Pacific Railroad and later, became the president and general manager of the Montana Union Railroad. Burns built this house in the 1890s and lived here until his death in 1919. By the early 1950s, the building had been divided into apartments., [Captions:] , USNA professor Henry Lockwood once owned this land., 1921 Sanborn Insurance Company Map shows the house on the new corner of Bay Ridge Avenue and Burnside Street.