What you described as an "a much-altered house" is actually changes that occurred after the 1930s. The House was purchased in the 1930s by the Cleary Family who performed most of the existing modifications to the original house. The House is considered a 2 1/2 floor Dutch Colonial - though access to the 1/2 "Third" floor has been reduced to a trap door in a closet on the second floor. House sits over a dirt cellar and the foundation is primarily field stones. Frame of the original house is Black Walnut and some of the support beams in the cellar still have bark - as well as visible power-post beetle damage. The house originally faced North, but the additions placed on the house reversed it and the house now faces south. All of the additions sit on concrete slabs. There are two boxwoods on the north side of the house that are believed to have been planted by the original Hilleary family in the late 17th century. The original land grant to the Hilleary family was 1050 acres. When the Clearys purchased it in the 1930s, roughly 100 acres remained from the original grant. When the Clearys sold the house in 1990 - it was on a 1.1 acre lot. Members of the Hilleary and Plummer families continue to visit this site.
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: The "Three Sisters" plantation was a
: very large plantation, patented by Thomas
: Hilleary in 1683 and owned for many
: generations by members of the Hilleary
: family. The plantation acreage is located
: in the general Lanham area, actually closer
: to current-day Springdale and Glenarden.
: Over the generations, it was divided into
: smaller plantations for different members of
: the family. R. Payne is correct that part
: of the plantation is today represented by a
: much-altered house (probably from the 18th
: century)on Cleary Lane, but that building
: was NOT on the part of the plantation that
: belonged to Sarah Ogle Hilleary in the
: middle of the 19th century. Sallie
: Hilleary's portion of the plantation was
: farther south - on the south side of what is
: now Ardwick-Ardmore Road, and east of the
: new Flowers High School. The buildings on
: Sallie's plantation are no longer standing,
: although up until about 20 years ago one of
: the tobacco barns from her time period was
: still standing. The area is now being
: residentially developed.
:
: I suspect that your interest in Sallie
: Hilleary's plantation has to do with the
: Plummer family of Riversdale - yes, it was
: this part of the "Three Sisters"
: plantation where Emily Saunders worked, and
: to which Adam Francis Plummer walked from
: Riversdale to spend time with his wife and
: children.
:
: If you come to the PGCHS library (now
: located on the lower level of the Greenbelt
: Branch Library building at 11 Crescent road,
: Greenbelt) I can show you on the map exactly
: where "Three Sisters" was. We are
: open on Saturday afternoons, noon to 4 p.m.
: and by appointment - call us at
: 301-220-0330.
:
: Hope this helps!
:
: Susan G. Pearl, Historian
: PGCHS
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