Warfield's Range

Warfield's Range, also known as Philla Terra and Dr. Thomas Chew Warfield's Homestead, is a historic slave plantation home located between Laurel and Columbia in Howard County, Maryland.

Warfiled's Range
Location of Warfiled's Range in Maryland
Location10504 Gorman Road (10504 Patuxent Ridge Road)
Coordinates39°09′13″N 76°52′30″W
BuiltEighteenth Century
Architectural style(s)Brick

On 26 March 1696, Richard and John Warfield surveyed a 1,080 acre land patent named Warfield's Range along with others that totaled 1,862 acres. A log cabin was built onsite during this time which survived until 2001. In 1703, Richard Warfield granted 150 acres of Warfield's Range including the cabin to his daughter Rachel Warfield Yates. In 1765, 240 acres of the range were inherited by Benjamin Warfield's son Joshua Warfield. In 1845 Thomas Chew Worthington updated the log cabin interior with random width wood floors.[1]

After Peter Gorman completed his railroad contract, he purchased the 500 acre estate Fairview in North Laurel from Dr. Charles Griffith Worthington. The property was part of Warfiled's Range, containing the 1696 log cabin that survived until an arson fire in 2001 when relocated to accommodate the Warfield's Range development.[2][3][4]

See also

References
  1. Warfield, J.D. (1980). The founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland : a genealogical and biographical review from wills, deeds, and church records. Baltimore: Regional Pub. Co. p. 376. ISBN 9780806379715.
  2. "centuries-old log cabin destroyed by fire". The Durant Daily Democrat. 25 December 2001.
  3. "HO-266" (PDF). Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  4. "HO-265" (PDF). Retrieved 30 May 2015.
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