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The Meem family sits in front of Martha Meem's house in this early photograph. Martha Meem clearly intended her property to be developed as a prestigious neighborhood with grand houses. In 1879, she built this French Second Empire-inspired house at 104 Chestnut Street. "COMMENTS"
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This building was constructed in 1930 as a fire station and was used for that purpose until 1977. "COMMENTS"
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On the left is a picture of the old Clopper house, called The Woodlands, which was built in 1812. It burned down in the 1960's. The visitor's center at Seneca Creek State Park now sits next to where this house used to be. The Woodlands, a short self-guided trail located at the visitor's center, interprets the life and the estate of the Clopper Family. "COMMENTS"
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Francis Cassatt Clopper bought this mill and 541 acres in 1810, but the earliest mention of a mill on this site dates back to 1777. Clopper's mill was a square, three-story grist mill, with basement and first floor levels made of local fieldstone and a third story of brick. The mill was destroyed by a fire in 1947. "COMMENTS"
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Clopper Lake at Seneca Creek State Park was dug out and flooded in 1975. Before that, a small section of Longdraft Road traveled straight across where the middle of the lake is today. Did you know that all lakes in Maryland are man-made? "COMMENTS"
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