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Twin Oaks

Highland Beach, Maryland
· Frederick Douglass Summer Home
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Twin Oaks was designed by Frederick Douglass so that "As a free man I could look back across the bay to the land where I was born a slave" and was built by Charles Remond Douglass in 1895.
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Highland Beach, Maryland · United States

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