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Item Title
Mumma Farm, Smoketown Road, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD
LocationSmoketown Road,
Sharpsburg vicinity, MD
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS MD-950
Building/structure dates:
1790 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1862 demolished
Building/structure dates:
1863 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1925 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1940 subsequent work
Significance: As a house that was destroyed during the Battle of Antietam and rebuilt the year after, the Mumma farm is significant both historically and as an example of the architectural style of Washington county during the mid-nineteenth century.
Subjects
FarmingFiresL-plan Buildings
Related Names
Ripley, Brig Gen. Roswell
Fong, Tina L., Field Team
Tergas, Leslie P., Field Team
Wagner, Martha, Historian
Boucher, Jack E., Photographer
Balachowski, Joseph O., Delineator
James, Stephen T., Delineator
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. GENERAL VIEW OF BUILDING FROM NORTHEAST (BARN TO THE LEFT)
2. GENERAL VIEW OF BUILDINGS FROM SOUTHWEST (BARN TO THE RIGHT)
3. VIEW OF BUILDINGS FROM SOUTHWEST
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