Perry Hall Mansion (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Perry Hall Mansion is a historic structure located in the area to which it gave its name, Perry Hall, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. Erected on a hill above the Gunpowder River Valley, the mansion is an excellent example of late colonial and early 19th century life in eastern Baltimore County.Originally built in the mid 1770s, for most of its early history the structure was owned by Harry Dorsey Gough (see Gough-Calthorpe family), a wealthy Baltimore merchant. Gough named the estate Perry Hall, after his family's ancestral home of the same name within what is now Perry Hall Park, in Perry Barr, England, a northern suburb of Birmingham. From the 16-room mansion, Gough administered his vast plantation operation, where dozens of slaves tended cattle, various food crops, and stands of tobacco. The Perry Hall estate was so influential that maps from the period typically identify modern-day Bel Air Road (U.S. Route 1) as "Perry Hall Road" or "Gough's Road."