Keedysville Area
28 – George Adam Geeting House, circa 1780, Keedysville, MD
Posted on: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 5:52 pmOn the fringe of Keedysville, tucked close in a sharp bend of Dogstreet Road at the terminus of Geeting Road, sits a house long neglected and lately abandoned. The windows …
49 – Felfoot Farm, 1784, east of Keedysville, MD
Posted on: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 5:52 pmSoutheast of Keedysville, Dogstreet Road winds through farmland and dips to cross Little Antietam Creek over a graceful stone bridge. Felfoot Farm lies astraddle both the road and the Little …
59 – Doub Farms, circa 1780 and 1851, Keedysville, MD
Posted on: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 5:52 pmNorth of Route 34 near Keedysville, a long, unmarked lane, bordered by stone fences, recedes into the fields. This was once a public road from Keedysville to Coffman Farm Road …
105 – Dogstreet Farm, circa 1790 and 1820, Keedysville, MD
Posted on: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 5:50 pmThe little farm at the edge of Keedysville on Dogstreet Road had been neglected for a number of years. Its fields grew tall with weeds and its vast barn sagged, …
110 – Nicodemus Mill Complex, 1810, east of Keedysville, MD
Posted on: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 5:50 pmDog Creek flows just north of the juncture of Nicodemus Mill and Dogstreet Roads, a small run in a fertile valley. On the east side of the road, a small …
133 – Seven Gates Farm, circa 1820, Keedysville, MD
Posted on: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 5:49 pmAt the western edge of Keedysville, on the north side of Main Street, a small farmstead is settled behind a wooden fence. Large trees shade grounds divided into gardens by …
132 – Criswell’s House & Broom Manufactory, circa 1820, Keedysville, MD
Posted on: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 5:49 pmKeedysville is removed from the flow of modern life, a village strung along the steep banks of Little Antietam Creek, away from the main thoroughfare. In 1768, Jacob Hess acquired …
107 – Keedy-Machat Farm, circa 1890-1905, Keedysville, MD
Posted on: Monday, March 30th, 2015 @ 5:49 pmSet back from Shepherdstown Pike west of Coffman Road, a gravel farm lane winds through pasture toward a vast metal-roofed frame barn. Unpainted, it hulks on solid, stone foundations, remnant …
29 – Hitt-Cost House, circa 1790, north of Keedysville, MD
Posted on: Saturday, March 7th, 2015 @ 10:55 am
On the north side of Keedysville Road, at a bend, a long yellow house, clad in weatherboard, sits on a rise overlooking the confluence of the Antietam and the Little …
134 – Jacob Hess House, circa 1760, Keedysville, MD
Posted on: Wednesday, March 4th, 2015 @ 10:15 am
The stone gable of the Hess House is turned to-ward the street, displaying a great stone chimney with decorative corbeling rimming its top. Windows in this gable are irregularly placed. …
