St. Charles College, Maryland
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St. Charles College Historic District (Boundary Increase)
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St. Charles College Historic District, December 2009
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| Location | 711 Maiden Choice La., Catonsville, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°16′6″N 76°42′3″W / 39.26833°N 76.70083°WCoordinates: 39°16′6″N 76°42′3″W / 39.26833°N 76.70083°W |
| Area | 15 acres (6.1 ha), boundary increase 11 acres (4.5 ha) |
| NRHP Reference # | 83002945, boundary increase 87002181 |
| Added to NRHP | September 30, 1983, boundary increase December 29, 1987 |
St. Charles College was a seminary college in Catonsville, Maryland, originally located in Ellicott City, Maryland.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832) was a signer of the Declaration of Independence for Maryland. One of the wealthiest men in the Americas at that time and a newly elected delegate to the Second Continental Congress and the only Roman Catholic to vote on independence and sign the document, Carroll staked his fortune on the American Revolution. After the Revolution, Carroll became president of the Maryland Senate in the General Assembly and divided his time between the family mansion and estate Doughoregan Manor in western Anne Arundel County (later Howard County), near Ellicott Mills on the upper Patapsco River, and Annapolis. One of his most important tasks he said was when he helped lay the "first stone" for the new technology of transportation, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on Independence Day, July 4, 1828, west of the city near modern Halethorpe. At his death in 1832, he was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence and was laid to rest with other Carrolls in the crypt at the family chapel at Doughoregan.
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