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slash guide. On a sprawling plot of land in Port Tobacco, Maryland, sits a house of most unusual shape.

Built in a curved formation that looks almost like a boomerang.

The house was built in five parts, and it looks on first glance, like five very distinct and dissimilar

buildings glued together.

But don't misinterpret this to mean that it housed the poor the underprivileged the doubt on their luck

this was a house of means a house with a formal name

Habard adventure a mansion with supplementary wings and its expensive artwork and elaborate furnishings speak to the wealth of the owner.

Eched into several bricks of the

surname Stone and the dates of the etchings

stretch back to the 1700s.

The Thomas Stone National Historical site preserves the home and property of Thomas Stone.

Some of the original furnishings have been recovered from subsequent owners and

re-established in the house.

A family cemetery sits in a small gated square near small mossy woods.

But who was Thomas Stone and why is there a national park site dedicated to him?

Thomas Stone was an attorney, planter, and politician at the time of the American Revolution, a founding father who contributed to the Articles of

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