Bohemia Farm Explained

Bohemia Farm
Location:4920 Augustine Herman Highway; 1 mi. S of Bohemia River off U.S. 213, Earleville, Maryland
Coordinates:39.4503°N -75.8622°W
Architecture:Georgian
Added:April 11, 1973
Refnum:73000912

Bohemia Farm, also known as Milligan Hall, is a historic home located on the Bohemia River at Earleville, Cecil County, Maryland. It is a five bays wide, Flemish bond brick Georgian style home built about 1743. Attached is a frame, 19th century gambrel-roof wing. The house interior features elaborate decorative plasterwork of the Rococo style and the full "Chinese Chippendale" staircase. It was "part-time" home of Louis McLane.[1]

The estate was founded by Augustine Herman, a Bohemian-born cartographer from Mšeno.

Ephraim, the oldest son of Herman, was among the principal converts to the Labadist faith, a Frisian Pietist sect that practiced a form of Christian communism that emphasized asceticism, plain dress, gender equality, and universal priesthood. In 1683, Augustine Herman granted 3,750 acres (15 km2) of land to the Labadists to form a colony. The Labadist commune never managed to gain more than 100 settlers and ceased to exist after 1720.[2] [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bohemia Farm. August 1972. 2016-01-01 . Michael Bourne . Maryland Historical Trust.
  2. Book: Nead . The Pennsylvania-German in the Settlement of Maryland . 1980 . Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. . 978-0-8063-0678-0 .
  3. Web site: The Labadists of Bohemia Manor . . 2020-08-25.