Round About Hills or Peacefields is a historic slave plantation home located at Glenwood, Howard County, Maryland. An alternate address for this house is 14581 McClintock Drive, Glenwood, Maryland.[2] It was built about 1773 on a 266-acre land patent and consists of a 1+12-story frame house with a stone end. Thomas Beale Dorsey inherited the property in 1794 then exchanged his interest in the plantation with Thomas Cook's stagecoach wayside town Cooksville.[3][4]

Round About Hills
Round About Hills, January 2011
Round About Hills is located in Maryland
Round About Hills
Round About Hills is located in the United States
Round About Hills
Location15505 Cattail Oaks, Glenwood, Maryland
Coordinates39°16′24″N 77°01′52″W / 39.27333°N 77.03111°W / 39.27333; -77.03111
Area3.2 acres (1.3 ha)
Built1773 (1773)
Architectural styleSouthern colonial
NRHP reference No.08001072[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 20, 2008

The main block is three bays wide by one bay deep, with a gambrel roof and 1-story hip-roofed porch. It features a long screened porch with exposed rafter tails and an 1820 stone kitchen addition. Also on the property is a stone slave quarters outbuilding and a small frame outbuilding.[5]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "WEEKLY LIST OF ACTIONS TAKEN ON PROPERTIES: 11/17/08 THROUGH 11/21/08". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-02.
  3. ^ Barbara Feaga. Howard's Roads to the Past. p. 42.
  4. ^ Celia M. Holland. Old homes and families of Howard County, Maryland: with consideration of various additional points of interest. p. 252.
  5. ^ Kenneth M. Short (July 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Round About Hills" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
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