Northampton Plantation Slave Quarters

  • Also Known As: Northampton Plantation Slave Quarters and Archaeological Park

  • Address: 10915 Water Port Crt
  • Vicinity: Lake Arbor Way
  • Type: Archaeological Park
  • Travel Genus: Sight , Sight
  • Sight Category: Site


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1673/00/00 Capt Thomas Sprigg Owner Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore grants a 1000-acre tract of land to Thomas Sprigg.
1790/00/00 In the 1790s, enslaved African Americans begin living at the slave quarters on Northampton.
1824/12/16 Marquis de Lafayette National Guest Lafayette spends the night visiting with Governor Samuel Sprigg. Lafayette's Triumphal Tour of America
1865/00/00 John Contee Fairfax Owner John Contee Fairfax buys the Northampton plantation.
1900/09/25 John Contee Fairfax Died John Contee Fairfax, 11th Lord Fairfax, dies at in his country home Northampton, in Prince George's County, Maryland.

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Particulars for Northampton Plantation Slave Quarters:
Cultural Affiliation African American
Sight Category Archaeological Park
Agriculture Plantation
Sight Category Site
Crime Slavery




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