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Essington Hall

plantation and historic house in Mitchellville, Maryland, USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ16864792 ↗
Source-derived summary

Essington Hall was a plantation and historic house on Old Mount Oak Road in Mitchellville, Maryland that encompassed much of the area. It was owned by John Mitchell, for whom the locality of Mitchellville was named.

The house was destroyed by 1974 but the cemetery remains and is maintained by the city of Bowie, Maryland.

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External links

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Essington Hall” as plantation and historic house in Mitchellville, Maryland, USA. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Essington, Hall and plantation can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as plantation and historic house in Mitchellville, Maryland, USA. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16864792. Authority coordinates are 38.925, -76.759. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Essington Hall” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.