St. Francis Xavier Church and Newtown Manor House Historic District

St. Francis Xavier Church and Newtown Manor House Historic District (Compton, MD)
St. Francis Xavier Church and Newtown Manor House Historic District is located in Maryland
St. Francis Xavier Church and Newtown Manor House Historic District
St. Francis Xavier Church and Newtown Manor House Historic District is located in the United States
St. Francis Xavier Church and Newtown Manor House Historic District
LocationS of Compton on MD 243, Compton, Maryland
Coordinates38°15′20″N 76°42′1″W / 38.25556°N 76.70028°W / 38.25556; -76.70028
Built1731 (1767)
NRHP reference No.72001485[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 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.

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ Mrs. Preston Parish (January 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. Francis Xavier Church and Newtown Manor House Historic District" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved January 1, 2016.