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HOMES: GROVE HILL

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Venerable Grove Hill, earliest home on the old Brighton Road, incorporates two connected log cabins believed to date to 1796. The main house was built by Thomas Tyson and wife Mary Ellicott, great-granddaughter of James Brooke. From their hilltop, the Tysons saw both Union and Confederate troops move along Brighton Road. Deborah Iddings Willson recalls that wagons toiled for ten minutes on the road's long climb up from the Hawlings River. Marriage tied the Tysons to Baltimore's distinguished Hopkins family, and for much of the 1900s Grove Hill was the home of "Miss Mary" Randolph Hopkins. Today it is owned by John and Kalin Hyman and known as Rolling Acres.

 

  

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