Bohemia Farm

Bohemia Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Bohemia Farm land side in 1936
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Location	4920 Augustine Herman Highway; 1 mi. S of Bohemia River off U.S. 213, Earleville, Maryland
Coordinates	39°27′1″N 75°51′44″W
Area	130.2 acres (52.7 ha)
Built	1743 (1743)
Architectural style	Georgian
NRHP reference No.	73000912[1]
Added to NRHP	April 11, 1973

Bohemia Farm, also known as Milligan Hall, is a historic home located on the Bohemia River at Earleville, Cecil County, Maryland. It is a five bays wide, Flemish bond brick Georgian style home built about 1743. Attached is a frame, 19th century gambrel-roof wing. The house interior features elaborate decorative plasterwork of the Rococo style and the full "Chinese Chippendale" staircase. It was "part-time" home of Louis McLane.[2]

The estate was founded by Augustine Herman, a Bohemian-born cartographer from Mšeno.

Ephraim, the oldest son of Herman, was among the principal converts to the Labadist faith, a Frisian Pietist sect that practiced a form of Christian communism that emphasized asceticism, plain dress, gender equality, and universal priesthood. In 1683, Augustine Herman granted 3,750 acres (15 km2) of land to the Labadists to form a colony. The Labadist commune never managed to gain more than 100 settlers and ceased to exist after 1720.[3][4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Michael Bourne (August 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bohemia Farm" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
3. Nead (1980). The Pennsylvania-German in the Settlement of Maryland. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 978-0-8063-0678-0.
4. "The Labadists of Bohemia Manor". Maryland Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-08-25.

External links

• Bohemia Farm, Cecil County, including photo from 1970, at Maryland Historical Trust
• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. MD-23, "Bohemia, Bohemias Mills, Cecil County, MD", 10 photos, 1 photo caption page, supplemental material