Mt Pleasant is a historic home and farm located in

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, Howard County,

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. The land grant of the property was surveyed by Patuxent Ranger

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as "Ranter's Ridge" in 1692. The farm house is built around an original log cabin. In 1838 Samuel Brown (1810-1880) aggregates properties into a 232-acre farm. This included 192 acres of the Hammonds Ridge tract from Thomas Herbert and in 1859 an additional 40 acres from his brother John from the Good Fellowship tract. During this time a second story to the log cabin and an addition on the north side was constructed. In addition to farming Samuel Brown was elected to three consecutive terms as commissioner of the Howard District of Anne Arundel County starting in 1846. During the

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the farm was the hiding place of

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, and munitions storage for the nearby

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. In 1993, the farm became the home of the Howard County Conservancy, a private land trust.

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