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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.