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1. HAMP_040815_022.JPG: View of the caretaker's home from the front yard of the mansion
2. HAMP_040815_211.JPG: This is the room where new mothers would spend time with their baby and receive visitors. It's the resting room.
3. HAMP_040815_255.JPG: The broken glass here is a wedding pane, where the new brides of the family would carve their name. Someone carved too much but they kept some of the glass anyway.
4. HAMP_040815_265.JPG: Purchasing this canopy bed, which is original to the mansion, cost over $100,000.
5. HAMP_040815_481.JPG: The staff would respond to the bells, each of which were wired to a switch in one of the rooms. Who answered those bells, anyway? A brief look at Slavery at Hampton Needing labor in abundance, the Ridgely family looked for the cheapest source they could find. In just the last fifty years of the eighteenth century, they bought over 300 indentured servants. They also employed free workers, British Prisoners of War, and, most importantly, enslaved African-Americans. Slavery was part of the Hampton estate for over 100 years, ending only when Maryland State law ended the institution in 1864. Its presence predated the construction of the mansion. Slaves were instrumental in building the mansion, and their work undergirded the gracious lifestyle of the Ridgelys in the mansion. Slavery at Hampton was unusual for two reasons. First, the Ridgelys were involved in industry, resulting in industrial jobs for some of the enslaved population. This is unlike the typically agricultural plantation of the deep south. Second, Hampton is very close to Pennsylvania, free land, and close to Baltimore with its huge population of free blacks; so there were refuges for runaways close by. It is very difficult to make an accurate estimate, but the Ridgelys enslaved literally hundreds of people--certainly over 500--over those years. The second owner of Hampton owned approximately 350 at his death, and manumitted all that he legally could. This is one of the largest manumissions in the history of Maryland, but it did not end slavery at Hampton. His son purchased some sixty or more slaves and manumitted only one. We have been unable to find a single possession, or a single piece of writing, by any Hampton slave. Therefore, everything we know about the lives of the slaves comes to us filtered by other people. Newspaper advertisements, family memoirs, business papers, and other records allow us to catch a glimpse of slave life at Hampton. America's past, like America's present, is complicated. Human relations can be very complex. Thus, slavery illustrates many contradictions. Many slaves were mistrusted and feared, others were given firearms. Many slaves were forced to live in horrible conditions; others were dressed as well as their rich owners. Some slaveowners acknowledged the injustice of slavery yet refused to manumit their "property." Slaves legally were not people, yet some had bank accounts and accumulated a great deal of property.
6. HAMP_040815_489.JPG: The cooking area. There were others down the hill.
7. HAMP_040815_529.JPG: Formal Gardens: The gardens were divided into three terraces, each with a pair of parterres or formal geometric patterns. Below them were kitchen gardens, an 18th century practice, culminating at a spring. Construction of the terraces or "falls" began in the late 1790's. Grassed ramps reflected the preference of American informality over European steps. When viewed from the cupola of the mansion, the terracing creates an optical illusion of leveling the parterres to a single continuous garden.
8. HAMP_040815_650.JPG: This is the inside of the caretakers house
9. HAMP_040815_712.JPG: If you look hard, there were three types of spikes used in the house
10. HAMP_040815_727.JPG: Slave quarters
11. HAMP_040815_748.JPG: The room had been damaged in a recent storm
12. HAMP_040815_776.JPG: The milk house
13. HAMP_040815_791.JPG: View of the mansion from the road
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Wikipedia Description: Hampton National Historic Site
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Hampton National Historic Site, in the Hampton area north of Towson, Maryland, United States, preserves a remnant of a vast 18th century estate including a Georgian manor house, gardens and grounds, and original stone slave quarters. The estate was owned by the Ridgely family for seven generations, from 1745 to 1948. The Hampton Mansion or manor house, once known locally as the "Hampton House", was the largest private home in America when it was completed in 1790 and is considered today to be one of the finest examples of Georgian architecture in the U.S. Its furnishings, together with the estate's slave quarters and other preserved structures, provide a comprehensive insight into late 18th century and early 19th century life of the landowning aristocracy. Hampton is the first site selected as a National Historical Site by the U.S. National Park Service for its architectural significance.

In addition to the mansion and slave quarters, visitors today may tour the overseer's house and grounds. Hampton National Historic Site is 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Baltimore at 535 Hampton Lane, near interchange #27B of the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) and Dulaney Valley Road (Maryland Route 146).

History:

1700s:

The property now known as the Hampton estate was originally part of a land grant called Northampton given to Col. Henry Darnall (c. 1645–1711), a relative of Lord Baltimore. His heirs sold the land on April 2, 1745, to Col. Charles Ridgely (1702–1772), a tobacco farmer and trader. The bill of sale records that the property included "...houses, tobacco houses (tobacco barns), stables, gardens, and orchards". By the late 1750s, Hampton extended to more than 10,000 acres (4,047 ha) and included an ironworks. His son, Captain Charles Ridgely (1733–1790), expanded the family business considerably, including gristmills, apple orchards, and stone quarries. During the American Revolutionary War, the ...More...
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