Oakdale Manor

Oakdale is a historic plantation located in Daisy, (Woodbine) Howard County, Maryland, former home of Maryland Governor Edwin Warfield.

Oakdale
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	16449 Edwin Warfield Road, Woodbine, Maryland
Coordinates	39°17′18″N 77°04′56″W
Built	1838
Architectural style	Brick Palladian
NRHP reference No.	14001041[1]

Oakdale resides on a land grant surveyed by William Shipley in Feb 16, 1765 named "Fredericks Burgh". The land was patented in March 1765 by Henry Griffith and repatented as "Addition to Part of Fredericks Borough"^[2] Oakdale was built in 1838 by Albert Galltin Warfield, great grandson of Captain Benjamin Warfield of Cherry Grove and his wife Margret Gassaway Watkins. In 1891 Edwin Warfield moved to the 265 acre Oakdale Manor after the death of his father and expanded the building to over twenty rooms.^[3] The property includes a pre-1838 log slave quarters, tenant house, carriage house, smokehouse, barn, and an Octagon glass greenhouse. Oakdale was the site of the reunion of Company A of the Confederate States of America which he served. In 1904, Warfield became governor of Maryland.^[4][5] The Governor hosted troops under the command of his appointee, Adjutant-General of the Maryland National Guard Clinton L. Riggs at Oakdale in 1907.^[6] Warfield's grandson Edwin Warfield III sold the manor in the mid-1970s^[7][8]

The Manor was subdivided to 54 acres and acquired by James F Jackson III who conducted a restoration in 1974.^[9] The house was purchased by Ted Mariani in 1980 who expanded the property with a solarium. In 2014 he announced plans to convert the farm use from winter wheat, soybean, corn and timothy crops to a class II winery and agritourism location for events up to 150 persons.^[10] The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December 2014.^[1]

See also

• List of Howard County properties in the Maryland Historical Trust
• Daisy, Maryland
• Sunnyside (Woodbine, Maryland)
• Hobson's Choice (Woodbine, Maryland)
• John T. Warfield House
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Howard County, Maryland

References

1. "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/15/14 through 12/19/14. National Park Service. 2014-12-24.
2. Stein, Charles Francis (1972). Origin and History of Howard County Maryland (First ed.). Charles Francis Stein, Jr. p. 272.
3. Celia M. Holland. Old homes and families of Howard County, Maryland: with consideration of various additional points of interest. p. 300.
4. Howard's Roads to the Past. Howard County Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee, 2001. 2001. p. 93.
5. C.R.Miller (28 September 1907). "MARYLAND'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE AT HOME". Town and Country.
6. "TROOP A AT OAKDALE.: Gov. Warfield Says His Outing with Soldiers Is One of Pleasure". The Washington Post. 19 August 1907.
7. "Gen. Warfield retiring as adjutant general". The Baltimore Sun. 16 November 1979.
8. Cleora B. Thompson (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Oakdale" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
9. "HO-2 Oakdale". Retrieved 17 August 2014.
10. Amanda Yeager (16 October 2014). "Howard's first farm winery gains approval". The Baltimore Sun.

External links

• Oakdale, Howard County, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust