White Marsh (Bowie, Maryland)
- Name
- White Marsh (Bowie, Maryland)
- Latitude
- 38.983345
- Longitude
- -76.721342
- City
- White Marsh
- County or Parish
- Prince George's County, Maryland
- State or Province
- Maryland
- Country
- United States
- Description
- In 1729, the Jesuits acquired White Marsh, a 2,000-acre estate on the head of the Patuxent River that straddled Prince George's and Ann Arundel counties, from a bequest provided by planter-merchant James Carroll that included the people enslaved by him. The Jesuits established their residence in 1741 with Sacred Heart Church located in what is now Bowie, Maryland. White Marsh was the most profitable of the plantations owned by the Jesuits; it became the center of a bitter property dispute between the Jesuits and the Archdiocese of Baltimore between 1817 and 1824. Between 1819 and 1823 and then again between 1830 and 1834, White Marsh was the site of a novitiate. In 1904, the Jesuits moved the residence moved to Bowie. In 1933, the Jesuits transferred the churches served by the Bowie community to the Archdiocese of Baltimore. (These churches served by the Bowie residence became part of the Archdiocese of Washington, when it was created in 1939).
- Source Resource
- http://onthesegrounds.georgetown.domains/omeka/api/items/32
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