Join us on Monday, May 19th at 1:00 pm at the St. Michaels Branch of Talbot County Free Library for a presentation about “Compton” the family home of Governor Samuel Stevens.
Barton Ross and Cindy Schmidt will present a study of the Stevens family lands in Grubin Neck of Talbot County. The presentation will include maps, depicting the change of land holdings over time as well as architectural evolution drawings to show the same for the house. Stevens (1778-1860) was the 18th Governor of Maryland. Stevens’ tenure is remembered for the enfranchisement of the Jews, the abolition of a religious test for Maryland office holders, the extension of the civil liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights to State law, and the creation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. After Stevens’ last term in Annapolis he returned to Compton which he had inherited from his father in 1794.
Barton Ross is an award-winning preservation architect and city planner who has worked all over the United States. He has worked on numerous historic homes including James Madison’s brick row house in Philadelphia, Benjamin Moore’s home in NJ, the John James Audubon house in Key West, FL, and the Charles Carroll House in Annapolis. Mr. Ross is a graduate of Columbia University, the Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design and holds a master’s degree in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania.
Cindy Schmidt is a native of Talbot County who has over thirty years of management experience as a genealogical researcher with a specific expertise in the Eastern Shore’s local history. Cindy, along with other local authors has published a variety of reference materials required for historical research. She is currently the administrator of The Upper Eastern Shore of Maryland Genealogy online research group, the lead Land Researcher for The Hill Community Project and does independent land research under “Let the Land Tell the Story”. Cindy received The Historical Society of Talbot County’s Heritage Award in 2011.
All Library programs are free and open to the public. For more information you may call (410) 745-5877 or check the library website at www.tcfl.org.
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