S of Compton on MD 243, Compton, Maryland. County/parish: St. Mary's.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 09, 1972. NRIS 72001485.
2 contributing buildings.
St. Francis Xavier Church and Newtown Manor House Historic District is the first county-designated historic district in Saint Mary's County, the "Mother County" of Maryland and is located in Compton, Maryland, near the county seat of Leonardtown. The district marks a location and site important in the 17th-century ecclesiastical history of Maryland, as an example of a self-contained Jesuit community made self-supporting by the surrounding 700-acre (2.8 km2) farm. The two principal historic structures were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Archaeological remains associated with the site date back to the early colonial period, mid-17th century.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106778314