Mount Airy, also known as Grove Farm, is a historic home located at Sharpsburg,

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. It is a -story

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brick house, built about 1821 with elements of the

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and

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styles. Also on the property are a probable 1820s one-story gable-roofed brick structure that has been extensively altered over time, a late-19th-century frame barn with metal roof ventilators, a 2-story frame tenant house built about 1900, and a mid-20th-century cinder block animal shed. It was used as a hospital for Confederate and Union soldiers following the

Battle of Antietam The Battle of Antietam (), or Battle of Sharpsburg particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union G ...

. On October 3, 1862, President

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and General

George McClellan George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American soldier, Civil War Union general, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey. A graduate of West Point, McCl ...

visited Mount Airy, an event recorded photographically by Alexander Gardner. It was listed on the

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in 1986.

Gallery

Image:Lincoln and generals at Antietam.jpg, President Lincoln with Gen. George B. McClellan and group of officers at Grove Farm

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* *, including photo from 1992, at Maryland Historical Trust * * * Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Historic American Buildings Survey in Maryland Houses in Washington County, Maryland Sharpsburg, Maryland 1821 establishments in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Maryland {{WashingtonCountyMD-NRHP-stub