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Oaklands may refer to:
Places- Oaklands, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- Oaklands, Gauteng, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Oaklands, Hertfordshire, England
- Oaklands, New South Wales, a town in Australia
- Oaklands, New Zealand, a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand
- Oaklands, County Tyrone, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
- Oaklands College, in Hertfordshire, England
- Oaklands Catholic School, in Hampshire, England
- Oaklands, a mansion that is today home to De La Salle College in Toronto
- Oaklands, a plantation estate in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, now operated as Oaklands Historic House Museum
- Oaklands Park, South Australia
- Oaklands Junction, suburb of Melbourne, Australia
- Oaklands railway station, Adelaide, South Australia
Oaklands is a historic home located in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The original house was built in 1772, and is a two-story, three-bay rectangular stone structure. It has a major wing to the east, with an addition to that wing. The front of the wing has a two-story front porch with decorative iron supports. Also on the property is a contributing 1/1/2-story stuccoed stone gatehouse, remodeled in 1900 as a private school for the Thomas children.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Oaklands or Contee was a slave plantation owned by the Snowden family.
The house is a three-story manor of brick construction, and was built by Major Thomas Snowden and his wife Eliza Warfield from Bushy Park, Howard County. The estate extended westward into modern Howard County. Richard Snowden inherited it from his father. His oldest daughter Anne Lousia Snowden inherited the estate and married Capt. John Contee, for whom "Contee" station of the B&O railroad was named.
In 1911, the estate was purchased by Charles R. Hoff and his wife who was a descendent of the Snowden family.
Oaklands, also known locally as Oaklands Castle, is a historic house on Oaklands Farm in southern Gardiner, Maine. The main house of this farm property is a stone Gothic Revival work from the early career of the noted 19th-century architect Richard Upjohn. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.