Bellevue (Accokeek, Maryland)
historical plantation home in Accokeek, Maryland, United States
Bellevue is a historic plantation house located at 200 Manning Road East, in Accokeek, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. This Greek Revival style home was constructed in about 1840. It is one of only three surviving examples in Prince George's County of the once-popular Tidewater house style, typical of small plantations of that period. Bellevue is in excellent condition, and retains its freestanding chimneys with brick pent, as well as a roughly contemporary kitchen wing. The house stands on a five-acre, partially wooded lot which exemplifies its original plantation setting.
Bellevue was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Slavery
Bellevue was part of a tobacco plantation landscape in southern Prince George’s County during the first half of the 19th century. Contemporary and later descriptions identify the property as a "tobacco plantation," with the present house built c. 1840 for planter John H. Hardisty.
Like other plantations in the county, Bellevue’s agricultural operations would have relied on enslaved labor before Maryland’s 1864 abolition of slavery.
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