Too often, for my liking, I hear about a beautiful, historic building that was demolished or mysteriously burnt to the ground.
That’s why I enjoyed watching the video footage of a 255-year-old mansion being moved this week 80 kilometres (50 miles) by barge on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
Called the Galloway House, the mansion was constructed from 1760 to 1764 in Easton for the newly married William Nicols and Henrietta Maria Chamberlaine.
The mansion was purchased by Christian Neeley, who plans to live in it in its final destination on an historic estate in Queenstown with his parents and his sister and her children.
A website has been created about the move. ABC broadcast a report.
You can learn more about the first owners of Galloway House by Googling their names. In 1880, John Bozman Kerra wrote the book, Genealogical notes of the Chamberlaine family of Maryland (Eastern shore,) and of the following connected families: Neale-Lloyd, Tilghman Robins, Hollyday-Hammond-Dyer, Hughes-Stockton, Hayward, Nicols-Goldsborough, and others, which has information about the family.
