The Joshua Lowe House is a historic home located at Rising Sun,

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, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story, center passage plan brick building three

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wide by two bays deep, built about 1830 in the late

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. The house is one of the earliest and most substantial buildings in the crossroads village of Rock Springs and served as the first post office for the community from 1830 to 1838. The Joshua Lowe House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

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