Mount Harmon
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| Location | 600 Grove Neck Road, Earleville, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°23′2″N 75°56′29″W / 39.38389°N 75.94139°W |
| Area | 430 acres (170 ha) |
| Built | 1788 |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| NRHP reference No. | 74000945[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 5, 1974 |
Mount Harmon is an historic home, located at Earleville, Cecil County, Maryland, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974,[1] and is currently open to the public.
History
The Mount Harmon Plantation estate and nature preserve covers some 200-acre (0.81 km2) 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 Lord Baltimore to Godfrey Harmon.
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.
In 1963, Marguerite duPont de Villiers Boden, a direct descendant of the Louttits and Georges, rescued the plantation, restoring the 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.
