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n. (plural of greenfield English)

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Greenfields (Cecilton, Maryland)

Greenfields is a historic home located at Cecilton, Cecil County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, Georgian-style brick dwelling with a hip roof, built about 1770. The home features a central door with engaged Doric columns and a fanlight in a one-bay pedimented pavilion. It was home to Governor Thomas Ward Veazey (Governor from 1836 to 1839) and John Ward, Colonel of the Provincial Militia of Cecil County (1756).

This fine Georgian manor house was probably built earlier than 1770, more likely 1740 to 1760. It was built on land patented to John Ward in 1674. The Ward family occupied it for at least 100 years. It was one of the fox hunting centers of Cecil County Maryland, that sport being one of the early settlers' favorites. The mansion is noted for its architectural purity and for its paneling and fine woodwork. Especially noteworthy are the Wall of Troy and the Rose of Sharon molding. The original brick dependencies were still standing in 1967. Other noteworthy features are the large reception hall with its graceful, easy-tread stairway; the big fireplaces in both wings, as well as smaller ones in each of the rooms the fanlights over the double door entrances to each of the wings; the family graveyard; the old boxwood and the large maple tree, one of the largest in the state of Maryland. Greenfields is privately owned.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Usage examples of "greenfields".

One revelation to a lifetime, Gird had said after Greenfields, and would explain no more than that.

It had something to do with whatever happened the morning of Greenfields, which Gird would not speak of—but he was more dangerous in this mood than any other.

It was the same voice with which he’d come down from the hill before Greenfields, quiet and a little remote.

That he’d been just as unpleasant to the magelords during the war, especially that morning at Greenfields, had won him a Marshal’s shirt and later advancement.

If Gird had died at Greenfields, as he had said he should have, Gird’s vision would have died there too.

Heirs of lords killed at Greenfields squabbled over inheritances now in jeopardy.

They had each their local heroes—someone who had fought with him at Grahlin or Greenfields, Blackbone Hill or Brightwater.

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