House <y Garden 
“HAM 
AN OLD COLONIAL MANSION AND 
By Laurence 
T HIS fine old place, than which no better 
example of a true Colonial establishment 
can be named, has been in the possession of 
the well-known Ridgely family for a hundred 
and seventy-five years. Colonel Charles 
Ridgely,— grandson of Robert Ridgely of 
St. Mary’s County, the first of the “Hamp- 
PTON” 
GARDENS AT TOWSON, MARYLAND 
Hall Fowler. 
ton” family to come to Maryland,—was 
settled in Baltimore County by 1734, and 
had built himself a simple gambrel-roofed 
farmhouse, which is standing to-day within a 
quarter of a mile of the present “ Hampton.” 
At Colonel Ridgely’s death this part of his 
estate passed to his son, Captain Charles 
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