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Melwood Park was the home of Ignatius Digges, whose daughter Mary married Thomas Sim Lee, twice Governor of Maryland. Lee died here in 1819. General George Washington visited here four times, and Martha Washington visited once. During the War of 1812, British officers stopped here briefly.
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Westphalia, Maryland · United States
