Historic Resource Study: Ferry Hill Plantation

This study was undertaken through a cooperative program administered by the University of Maryland at College Park and the National Park Service. As outlined in the contract between these agencies and the author, the object of this Historic Resources Survey is to research and draft a careful, thorough study of Ferry Hill Plantation, which the National Park Service can use as a reference for subsequent efforts to interpret the plantation's history. Furthermore, the contract stipulates that particular attention should be devoted to the Blackford's and Douglas' slaves, and that every effort should be made to integrate the plantation's history into a local economic, political, and social context. Pursuant to these ends, the National Park Service directed that transportation corridors, agricultural practices, industrial development, immigration and settlement, and the plantation's connection with the Chesapeake and Ohio (C & O) Canal receive due consideration. The staffs of several local libraries and historical societies provided invaluable assistance. The staff at the Western Maryland Room at the Washington County Free Library in Hagerstown, Maryland, guided the author to local histories, volumes of the John Blackford Journals and information on General Henry Kyd Douglas. Likewise, the staff at the Washington County Historical Society in Hagerstown, Maryland, provided the author with detailed genealogies of the Blackford-Douglas families, along with photocopies of the Blackford family portraits and unpublished letters written by John Blackford. The librarians at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, Maryland, provided the author with John Blackford's 1829-1831 journals, and perhaps more importantly, guided me to additional farm journals and account books from north Maryland.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Maryland, College Park

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  College Park, MD  United States  20742

  National Park Service

  C Street between 18th and 19th Streets, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20242
• Authors:
  • Grivno, M L
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: 84p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Agricultural industry; Cultural resources; Historic preservation; History; National parks
• Uncontrolled Terms: Plantation
• Geographic Terms: Maryland
• Subject Areas: Highways; History; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01111188
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 24 2008 10:39AM