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Cloverfields, Wye Mills, Maryland (38.947331, -76.104329)
Period I - Primary house Felling dates: Winter 1700/1, Summer 1703, Winter 1703/4, Winter 1704/5
Period I - Main staircase After 1696
Period I - South partition wall center passage Felling dates: Undated
Period I - Dormer windows Winter 1703/4
Period II - Wings flanking stair tower Felling dates: Summer 1728, Winter 1728/9
Period IIIa - Raising of rooms flanking stair tower Undated
Period IIIb - Shed roof added Winter 1760/1
Period IV - North partition wall center passage Undated
Period IV - Blocking doorway north wall (RM102) Winter 1767/8
Period IV - Paneling room 102 Undated
Period V - Kitchen Summer 1783, Winter 1783/4
Period VII - Replacement hyphen built Undated
Site master 1526-1728 (white oak) CFMDx1 (t = 10.75 MDOAK; 8.78 ces4; 8.45 CCCS5). Site master 1656-1760 (pine) CFMDx2 (t = 6.81 cchms; 6.31 PHS5; 6.09 MELx2). Site master 1701-1783 (tulip poplar) CFMDx3 (t = 7.79 WCMDx1; 7.35 exchange; 6.00 RCBC3). Site master 1676-1766 (tulip poplar) CFMDx4 (t = 7.93 PHS5; 6.37 cchms6; 6.31 MELx2). Individual sample 1694-1767 (pine) cfmd101 (t = 5.27 ptms4; 4.89 swvz2; 4.74 SJC).
Cloverfields started out as a two-story, hall-and-parlor house with a rear stair tower which was expanded and modernized over a period of two hundred years.
Worthington and Seiter 2011 The Tree-Ring Dating of the Detached
Log Kitchen, Main House Cellar, Secondary House, and Corn Crib at Best
Farm and of the Thomas Farm House, all at Monocacy National Battlefield,
Frederick County, Maryland. Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory 2011/04.
Worthington, M J and Seiter, J I 2018 ”The Tree-Ring Dating of Cloverfields, Wye Mills, Maryland,” unpublished Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory archive report 2018/09
The Cloverfields Preservation Foundation here
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Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory
ProprietorsMichael Worthington
Jane Seiter, Ph.D
25 E. Montgomery St.
Baltimore, MD 21230
410-929-1520