Daffin House


Daffin House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	3 miles south of Hillsboro on Deep Branch Rd., Hillsboro, Maryland
Coordinates	38°52′31″N 75°55′47″W / 38.87528°N 75.92972°W / 38.87528; -75.92972Coordinates: 38°52′31″N 75°55′47″W / 38.87528°N 75.92972°W / 38.87528; -75.92972
Area	82 acres (33 ha)
Built	1760 (1760)
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP Reference #	75000873^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 21, 1975

Daffin House is a historic home located at Hillsboro, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is a large, 2½-story brick structure built about 1780. Attached is a two-part, 1½-story Flemish bond brick wing built about 1760, with a dormered gable roof. It was constructed by Charles Daffin who received a patent for the land in 1784 under the name of Daffin’s Farm.^[2]

Future president Andrew Jackson met Charles Dickinson here in 1796. Jackson would later kill Dickinson in a duel at Adairville, Kentucky.

Daffin House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ J. Richard Rivoire and Pamela James (December 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Daffin House" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

External links

Daffin House, Caroline County, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Maryland

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