3 mi. S of Hillsboro on Deep Branch Rd., Hillsboro, Maryland. County/parish: Caroline.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 21, 1975. NRIS 75000873.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Daffin House is a historic home located at Hillsboro, Caroline County, Maryland, United States. It is a large, 2½-story brick structure built about 1780. Attached is a two-part, 1½-story Flemish bond brick wing built in 1760, with a dormered gable roof. It was constructed by Charles Daffin who received a patent for the land in 1784 under the name of Daffin's Farm.
Future president Andrew Jackson met Charles Dickinson here in 1796. Jackson would later kill Dickinson in a duel at Adairville, Kentucky.
Daffin House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106776935