Bryantown Historic District
- Also Known As: Boarman's Manor also Bryan Town
- Address: MD 5 and County Rt 232
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1674/00/00 | William Boarman | Developer | Boarman's Manor, a 3,333 acre proprietary manorial grant is awarded to William Boarman Esq with royal courts, perquisites, profits of courts and other privileges and immunities belonging to manors in England. | |||
1760/02/27 | Anne Gardiner Mudd | Died | Anne Gardiner Mudd dies in Bryantown, Charles Co, Province of Maryland. | |||
1794/01/26 | Jane Edelen Mudd | Bride | Jane Edelen, daughter of Richard Edelen and Sarah Harrison Edelen, marries Alexius Mudd in Bryantown, Maryland. The marriage is with dispensation because of consanguinity in "3rd degree". | |||
1794/01/26 | Alexius Mudd | Groom | Jane Edelen, daughter of Richard Edelen and Sarah Harrison Edelen, marries Alexius Mudd in Bryantown, Maryland. The marriage is with dispensation because of consanguinity in "3rd degree". | |||
1864/12/00 | Dr Samuel Mudd | Conspirator | Dr Mudd introduces John Booth to Thomas Harbin at the Bryantown Tavern | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||
1864/12/00 | John Wilkes Booth | Conspiracy leader, assassin | Dr Mudd introduces John Booth to Thomas Harbin at the Bryantown Tavern | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | ||
1900/00/00 |
Particulars for Bryantown Historic District: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Area of Significance | Commerce |
Area of Significance | Exploration-settlement |
Architectural Style | Federal Style |
Sight Category | Historic District |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Architectural Style | Italianate |
Area of Significance | Military |
Criteria | Person |
Area of Significance | Politics-government |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
Bryantown, with its origins dating to the 18th century, is significant as one of Charles County's four earliest principal settlements. The land on which Bryantown is situated is comprised of part of Boarman's Manor, a 3,333 acre proprietary manorial grant awarded to Major William Boarman in 1676. Its growth as a prosperous trade and mercantile center by the mid 19th century is closely intertwined with many of the most important individuals, families, and events that shaped the social, economic, and cultural history of this area. As one of the oldest communities in a rural agricultural region where few physically cohesive settlements ever developed, Bryantown is unique in that it is one of the few towns that existed in lower Southern Maryland during the 1780 to 1900 period that today retains more than two or three early structures. Two of Bryantown's most prominent buildings, Brick House Lot and Evergreen, are both significant architectural landmarks, Brick House Lot for its formal Federal design and Evergreen as the finest example of Victorian Carpenter Gothic architecture in Charles County. Another important landmark is the early-19th century Bryantown Tavern, which is the oldest surviving commercial structure in this county, and one of the few extant early buildings of its type in Southern Maryland. In 1865, Bryantown played a minor role in an event of national consequence, the assassination of President Lincoln, when John Wilkes Booth, having broken his leg in his jump from the President's box, stopped at the nearby home of Dr. Samuel Mudd for treatment before resuming his escape south to Virginia. Mudd, whom Booth had reportedly met when he visited Bryantown over a year earlier claiming to be interested in purchasing a horse, was convicted and imprisoned for his alleged involvement in Booth's escape through Charles County, but was later pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1869. Two other county residents accused of aiding Booth, Samuel Cox and Thomas Jones, were arrested and incarcerated at the "old brick tavern at Bryantown" before being taken to Washington where they were eventually released for lack of evidence. In the aftermath of the assassination, thousands of Federal troops were garrisoned throughout the area, and Bryantown was designated a military station where county residents, "notorious for their hostility to the government," were required to take an unconditional oath of allegiance. - NRHP Registration
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