Hurley-Carter
House, Wootton's Mill, Rose Hill
November 2000
Located at 411
Feather Rock Drive, the HURLEY-CARTER FARMHOUSE HISTORIC DISTRICT
has been in the hands of the same families since it was built.
Hurley and Carter family names are reflected in street and
subdivision names in the surrounding area.
One of the few Italianate style farmhouses remaining in Rockville,
the present 2-story house was built in approximately 1870 on the
fieldstone foundation of a previously burned farmhouse. The family
purchased the farmland in 1852. The property was inventoried in 1998
for the Maryland Historical Trust.
WOOTTON'S MILL MILLER'S HOUSE (8 Camden Court) and WOOTTON'S MILL
PARK HISTORIC DISTRICTS are representatives and reminders of 19th
century commercial enterprise essential to local agriculture. A mill
operated on this site for 100 years, processing grain and saw logs.
The only exposed log cabin in Rockville, the miller's house is
typical of frontier building in Montgomery County. The old parts of
the building date back to approximately 1813. In 1905, after the
mill ceased operation, the miller's house became the summer retreat
and studio of the renowned American
artist-archaeologist-anthropologist, William Henry Holmes. Holmes,
who included the surrounding area in his paintings, enlarged the log
house and renamed the property "Holmescroft."
Located at 215 Autumn Way, ROSE HILL MANSION HISTORIC DISTRICT'S
claim in Rockville history is its status as an early farmhouse and
its long-time association with individuals prominent in Rockville,
including the Bullard family of Chestnut Lodge Sanitarium. While
linked to the Bullard family for more than a half century, the house
goes back much farther in local history. Eliza Wootton received 440
acres of land when she married Lewis Beall (brother of Upton) in
1803, and they lived there in a house which was probably replaced
with the current one by the 1840s. Eliza's second husband, Rev. John
Mines, Presbyterian minister for Cabin John and Bethesda parishes
and principal of the Rockville Academy, referred to ìRose Hillî in
a volume of poetry he wrote in 1837.
After Eliza's death, Rev. Mines and his next wife's family lived
here for another century. Their Catawba grape vines were well known.
The property was later owned by several Rockville notables,
including attorney Edward Peter, local master builder Edwin West,
and County health officer Claiborne Mannar.
In 1935, Anne and Dexter Bullard, Sr. purchased Rose Hill. They
remodeled and modernized the house, raised dairy cows, and thereby
supported many of the sanitarium's operations.
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