Caleb's Discovery is a historic home located two miles west of
Berlin
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,
Worcester County, Maryland
Worcester County is the easternmost county of the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 52,460. Its county seat is Snow Hill.
It is the only county of Maryland that borders the Atlantic Ocean, and the only county ...
. The house consists of two sections, the -story kitchen wing, dating from the early 18th century, and the -story living room wing, dating from about 1820. It is a good illustration of the incorporation of an early house into a later structure without the loss of the earlier building's identity.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1975.
References
External links
*, including photo from 1974, at Maryland Historical Trust
Houses in Worcester County, Maryland
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Maryland
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