Bryantown is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in Charles County

Charles County, Maryland

Charles County is a county in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Maryland.As of 2010, the population was 146,551. Its county seat is La Plata. This county was named for Charles Calvert , third Baron Baltimore....

, Maryland

Maryland

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, United States

United States

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, adjacent to Maryland Route 5

Maryland Route 5

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. Bryantown stands on land known as Boarman's Manor, a 4000 acres (16.2 km²) manor granted to Major William Boarman in 1674. (source: "Old Maryland Landmarks" by Robert F. T. Pogue, 1972). Bryantown is associated with the flight in 1865 of President Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

's assassin John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well-known actor...

, and its St. Mary's Church is the burial place of Dr. Samuel Mudd

Samuel Mudd

Samuel Alexander Mudd I, M.D. was an American physician who was convicted and imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the 1865 assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. He was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson and released from prison in 1869...

, who lived 5 miles (8 km) to the north, and who in November 1864 had first met Booth at the church (see article on Mudd).

Oakland

Oakland (Bryantown, Maryland)

Oakland is a historic home located near Bryantown, Charles County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story, three-bay brick dwelling constructed in the Federal style between 1822 and 1823...

 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1983. The Bryantown Historic District

Bryantown Historic District

Bryantown Historic District is a national historic district in Bryantown, Charles County, Maryland. It consists of 19 contributing buildings, structures, and sites and five non-contributing buildings and structures. The nucleus of the district is a group of four 19th century buildings flanking Old...

 was listed in 1985 and The Lindens

The Lindens (Bryantown, Maryland)

The Lindens is a historic home located near Bryantown, Charles County, Maryland. It is a two story frame house built during the second quarter of the 19th century in the Federal style. It is in the double parlor plan with Greek Revival mantels and an exterior double chimney...

in 1990.