Doub Farm
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Doub Farm
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| Location | North of Keedysville, Keedysville, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°29′53″N 77°41′54″W / 39.49806°N 77.69833°WCoordinates: 39°29′53″N 77°41′54″W / 39.49806°N 77.69833°W |
| Area | 149 acres (60 ha) |
| Built | 1851 |
| NRHP Reference # | 78001486 |
| Added to NRHP | November 15, 1978 |
The Doub Farm is a historic home and farm located at Keedysville, Washington County, Maryland, United States. The house is a two-story, seven-bay brick structure set on low fieldstone foundations. The property includes a small brick wash house, a row of board-and-batten outbuildings, a large stone end bank barn, a frame corn crib and wagon shed, and lime kiln. The kiln is still in good condition with its circular lining of header bricks still intact.
The land containing the Doub Farm was purchased in 1832 by John Doub of Doub's Mill (Beaver Creek) Maryland and given to his son Sameul Doub. Samuel Doub built the current eight-room brick farmhouse in 1851, as evidenced by painted dates in the attic. Samuel's son Frisby Doub owned and lived in the house until 1915. Both Samuel and Frisby were farmers. Frisby Doub died unmarried without children in 1915 and the property passed to the Kline family who had been his caretaker while elderly. The Klines owned the house until sometime in the 1950s or 1960s, when the property was purchased by the US Steel Corporation to use as a stone quarry. The house was subsequently abandoned and fell into disrepair. Economic conditions prevented the stone quarry from being built. William Doub, a great-great grandson of John Doub became aware of the property and in 1976 offered to buy it at a low price from US Steel, who no longer had need for the property. Mr. Doub and his family proceeded to restore the house and used it in the subsequent years as a weekend house. The house was lived in by Mr. Doub's son, Peyton Doub, from 1992 to 2007 and his other son, Albert Doub and family currently live in the house. The Doubs currently manage the property for conservation and agriculture, leasing the fields and pastures to Brian Baker, a local farmer.
One key structure on the Doub Farm is a field stone lime kiln. The roughly cubical structure measures roughly 15 feet wide, deep, and tall. It is open on the top. A single narrow doorway provides access to the bottom. It is thought that farmers in the day would shovel field stones into the top or through the door and burn them to produce powdered lime to spread in the fields to raise soil pH. The remnants of a road marked by fieldstone berms pass by the bottom of the structure and the door.
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