Darlington Historic District is a national

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. It includes approximately 100 small-scale structures in the village of Darlington. They include four churches including the

Darlington United Methodist Church Darlington United Methodist Church is located in Darlington, Maryland. It is a pre Civil War structure, built in 1852, with white siding, large windows, and many historically original architecture. It is a church within the Baltimore Washing ...

and the

Deer Creek Friends Meetinghouse Deer Creek Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Friends meeting house located at Darlington, Harford County, Maryland. It is a one-story fieldstone structure, six bays long on the south, four bays on the north, and three bays wide. It was cons ...

, a dozen shops and stores, barns/garages, meathouses, chicken houses, and other outbuildings, a lodge hall, a grammar school, a cemetery, and three working farms. They date particularly from the late 19th century through the early 20th century. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1987.

Gallery

File:Darlington 1950s.jpg, A photograph of the village of Darlington on Main Street in the 1950s. File:Bailey's Corner pre-1910.jpg, A photograph of the village of Darlington looking northeast from Bailey's Corner (currently the intersection of Shuresville Road and Route 161, or Main Street, and Kirk Road).

References

External links

*, including photo dated 2000, at Maryland Historical Trust
Boundary Map of the Darlington Historic District, Harford County
at Maryland Historical Trust Historic districts in Harford County, Maryland Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Harford County, Maryland {{HarfordCountyMD-NRHP-stub