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October 16-17,2004
Olde Princess Anne Days
Press Release
Historic home & garden tour of homes including;
Clifton Estate in Westover.
Visitors wishing to take the home and garden tour in it's entirety or specific locations will be charged $12.00...
Visitors wishing to only tour the Clifton Estate will be charged only $5.00...
Sat 10 am-5 pm & Sun noon-5 pm.
Fair, craft demos, buggy rides, music, kids' activities. Partially ADA.
Princess Anne, Maryland

Somerset County Plantation Houses

to Open for Olde Princess Anne Days

PRINCESS ANNE, Md. (Sept. 24, 2004) -– Several 18^th and early 19^th century Somerset County plantation houses will be part of the 47^th annual Olde Princess Anne Days house and garden tour on Saturday, Oct. 16, and Sunday, Oct. 17.

Visitors to this year’s event will be able to tour Clifton and Hollyhurst, two early 19^th century houses on the Manokin River, an 18^th century farmhouse known as Harrington Plantation, Catalpa Farm which has one of four surviving tobacco barns in Somerset County, and the mid-19^th century Capt. William T. Ford House on Maddox Island.

This year’s walking tour in Princess Anne will include the Col. George Handy House, the Levin Woolford House, Covington, the C.H. Hayman House, the Littleton Long House, the Sarah Martin Done House, the Teackle Gatehouse and the Teackle Mansion.

Several public buildings and churches will also be open, including the Somerset County Courthouse, which celebrates its centennial this year, the 18^th century Washington Hotel, Fairmount Academy and the Old Somerset County Jail.

An Early American Artisans Fair on the grounds of the Teackle Mansion will include the Philadelphia Handmade Paper Co., wooden toy maker Jim Wandell of Crisfield, handmade beeswax candles from the Pemberton Foundation and other vendors. The mansion will also be the setting for demonstrations in weaving, spinning and hearth cooking, plus period music, a livestock exhibit, and children’s activities.

Advance tickets for the house and garden tour are $12 and can be purchased at all Peninsula Bank branches and at the Somerset County Tourism Office on Route 13 in Princess Anne. Tickets also may be purchased with a credit card over the phone by calling 410-651-2968, or toll free 1-800-521-9189.

The hours for this year’s Olde Princess Anne Days are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the ongoing restoration and upkeep of Teackle Mansion, a Federal era, Neoclassical style house built between 1802 and 1819 by Littleton Dennis Teackle.  It is currently operated as a historic house museum by the Somerset County Historical Society.

For more information on Olde Princess Anne Days or the Teackle Mansion, call the Somerset County Tourism Office at 410-651-2968, or toll free 1-800-521-9189.