St. Francis Xavier Church and Newtown Manor House Historic District (Compton, MD) | |
Location | S of Compton on MD 243, Compton, Maryland |
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Coordinates | 38°15′20″N 76°42′1″W / 38.25556°N 76.70028°W |
Built | 1731 (1767) |
NRHP reference No. | 72001485[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 9, 1972 |
St. Francis Xavier Church and Newtown Manor House Historic District is the first county-designated historic district in Saint Mary's County, the "Mother County" of Maryland and is located in Compton, Maryland, near the county seat of Leonardtown. The district marks a location and site important in the 17th-century ecclesiastical history of Maryland, as an example of a self-contained Jesuit community made self-supporting by the surrounding 700-acre (2.8 km2) farm.[2] The two principal historic structures were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1] Archaeological remains associated with the site date back to the early colonial period, mid-17th century.