Longwood (Glenwood, Maryland)

Located Glenwood in Howard County, Maryland, United States, Longwood Plantation.

The Longwood plantation was started around 1780 for Gustavius Warfield. Warfield would keep patients in a loft above his office if they were unfit to travel. It feature numerous outbuildings and a smokehouse and a gravesite for family and slaves. The manor is built on a land grant named Ridgley's great park, on a section he inherited from his father's Bushy Park estate. The graveyard for slaves is situated to the south of the building. In 1860, Robert E. Lee visited Longwood before the war to visit his wife's first cousin George Washington Parke Custis Peter. He returned to visit in July 1870 after the war.