crofton slide show: Crofton Maryland: Beyond the Front Gates (a photo slide show) - 03/28/08 09:39 AM
There's more to Crofton than the subdivision you find inside the front gates. 
That community was the brain-child of Hamilton Crawford, a Louisiana developer who purchased the property in 1962 from the housekeeper who inherited the 1600 acres from her boss, E.L. Shaw.  A year later, Crawford announced plans to build a new community on the site, farmed for three centuries by Jesuit priests, slaves, sharecroppers and two prominent area families, the Duvalls and Chaneys.
Other nearby farms sold to developers after that, and Crofton soon evolved from being a subdivision inside those landmark front gates to a postal zipcode.  The greater Crofton area now includes many subdivisions as well as churches, schools, restaurants, stores, … (3 comments)

 
Margaret Woda, Maryland Real Estate & Military Relocation (Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.)

Margaret Woda

Maryland Real Estate & Military Relocation

Crofton, MD

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Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.

Address: 2191 Defense Hwy., #120, Crofton, Bowie, and Davidsonville, MD, 21114

Office: (800)735-5122

Mobile: (410)451-6245

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