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{{Infobox NRHP<br />
| name = Mount Harmon<br />
| nrhp_type =<br />
| image = Mt. Harmon Earleville HABS1.jpg<br />
| caption =<br />
| location = 600 Grove Neck Road, [[Earleville, Maryland]]<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|39|23|2|N|75|56|29|W|display=inline,title}}<br />
| locmapin = Maryland#USA<br />
| built = {{Start date|1788}}<br />
| architecture = Georgian<br />
| added = June 5, 1974<br />
| area = {{convert|430|acre}}<br />
| refnum = 74000945<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref><br />
}}<br />
'''Mount Harmon''' is an historic home, located at [[Earleville, Maryland|Earleville]], [[Cecil County, Maryland|Cecil County]], [[Maryland]], United States. It was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1974,<ref name="nris"/> and is currently open to the public.<br />
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== Style ==<br />
Mount Harmon is an 18th-century brick mansion built by Sidney George around 1788. It features a central door with a scrolled [[pediment]] and pineapple [[Keystone (architecture)|keystone]] supported by [[Ionic order|Ionic]] [[pilaster]]s.<ref name="mht_ihp">{{cite web|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-223.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Harmon|date=May 1973 |accessdate=2016-01-01 |author=Michael O. Bourne|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust}}</ref> In the late 1920s a frame wing was built on the south gable.<br />
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== History ==<br />
The Mount Harmon Plantation estate and nature preserve covers some {{convert|200|acre|km2|adj=on}} adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay, on a peninsula by the north shore of the [[Sassafras River]]. The plantation was created in 1651 as a land grant from [[Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore|Lord Baltimore]] to Godfrey Harmon.<br />
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From 1750 to 1810 Mount Harmon flourished as a [[tobacco plantation]] owned by the Louttit and George families. Mount Harmon eventually fell out of family hands and into disrepair.<br />
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In 1963, Marguerite duPont de Villiers Boden, a direct descendant of the Louttits and Georges, rescued the plantation, restoring the [[Kitchen#Colonial America|Colonial Kitchen]] and Manor House. Mrs. Boden filled the house with 18th-century antiques, and restored the Tobacco Prize House as a reminder of the plantation's days as a tobacco shipping center for the Sassafras River area. After Mrs. Boden's death, her daughter Kip Kelso Boden Crist ensured the plantation's future by forming Friends of Mount Harmon, Inc.<br />
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== Friends of Mount Harmon ==<br />
Today, the Friends of Mount Harmon (FOMH), almost all volunteers, preserve and interpret the plantation for the education and enjoyment of its visitors. FOMH conducts house and kitchen tours, hosts Colonial picnics, Yuletide tours, and special events, as well as operating educational programs for schools and maintain [[nature trail]]s that wind around the property.<br />
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Mount Harmon gives water access to canoes, kayaks, and boats.{{explain|date=October 2011}} The formal boxwood garden is used for weddings, and the spacious Manor House grounds are open for festive events and corporate meetings.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
{{Commons category|Mt Harmon Plantation, Earleville}}<br />
*{{MHT url|id=225|title=Mount Harmon, Cecil County}}, including undated photo, Maryland Historical Trust<br />
*{{Official website|http://www.mountharmon.org}}<br />
*[[Historic American Buildings Survey]] documentation, filed under Earleville, Cecil County, MD:<br />
**{{HABS |survey=MD-861 |id=md0674 |title=Mt. Harmon Plantation at World's End |photos=24 |color=2 |data=2 |cap=3 |link=no}}<br />
**{{HABS |survey=MD-861-A |id=md0929 |title=Mt. Harmon Plantation at World's End, Kitchen |photos=4 |cap=1 |link=no}}<br />
**{{HABS |survey=MD-861-B |id=md0497 |title=Mt. Harmon Plantation at World's End, Tobacco Prize House |photos=3 |cap=1 |link=no}}<br />
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{{National Register of Historic Places in Maryland}}<br />
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[[Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland]]<br />
[[Category:Houses in Cecil County, Maryland]]<br />
[[Category:Houses completed in 1788]]<br />
[[Category:Museums in Cecil County, Maryland]]<br />
[[Category:Historic house museums in Maryland]]<br />
[[Category:Protected areas of Cecil County, Maryland]]<br />
[[Category:Historic American Buildings Survey in Maryland]]<br />
[[Category:1788 establishments in Maryland]]<br />
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