Hilltop View

On May 6, 1813, Mount Harmon provided a vantage point over events along the Sassafras as barges of British marines passed en route to Georgetown and Fredericktown, then returned with smoke rising behind them from the burning of both towns. The people watching from here were probably tenant farmers, as Mount Harmon’s widowed owner, Mary Louttit George, had moved to Wilmington before the war. The property, part of Cecil County’s agricultural economy and devoted primarily to wheat, had earlier been called “World's End” on a 1752 map created by Emanuel Bowen. Several nearby residents took part in the war, most notably Brigadier General Thomas Marsh Forman of neighboring Rose Hill, who served at the Battle of Baltimore.

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