Best Farm MNB MD3
2024-10-30
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- Photograph
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- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
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About this work
The Best Farm/L’Hermitage Slave Village site, Monocacy National Battlefield, Frederick, Maryland, USA, in early morning shadows. The house is an unusual example of a mixture of the local Federal style and Caribbean French Colonial styles of building and plantation culture, transplanted from Haiti/Saint-Domingue to central Maryland. It was built as the home of the Vincendrière family, who fled Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution, and came to Maryland to establish a version of the plantation culture with which they were familiar. L'Hermitage was one of the largest slave-holding plantations in Maryland, and was notable for its brutal treatment of those enslaved there. The adjacent lands are documented as L'Hermitage Slave Village Archeological Site. The lands were fought over during the Battle of Monocacy in 1864 during the American Civil War. The hip-roofed barn, unusual for Maryland, is seen to the rear.Enoch Louis Lowe, 29th Governor of Maryland, was born at L'Hermitage in 1820, son of Bradley Samuel Adams Lowe and Adelaide Bellumeau de la Vincendrière
