Boats, Train and Mansion - Port Deposit MD

Trip back to Susquehanna River to see Boats, a Train and a Mansion (Donaldson Brown Center). Always a blast to fly over the river. To the gentleman who was buying all the sandwiches at Criagtown market, I believe that was you in the last boat, lol. Hope you enjoyed!
The Brown family descended from the Scotch-Irish who had immigrated to Virginia in the 1700s. In 1869, J.Wilcox and Ellen Turner MacFarland Brown moved their family to Baltimore, MD where J. Wilcox worked as a banker and stockbroker for the company Brown and Lowndes. The second youngest of 13 children, Frank Donaldson Brown was born in Baltimore on February 1, 1885.
Donaldson married Greta du Pont Barksdale in 1916. Initially, the family lived in New Castle, Delaware near Greta’s parents on Mount Salem Lane.
The Brown family enjoyed sailing along the Hudson and the Chesapeake. It is rumored that in 1939 Brown sold his yacht, “Oceania,” to industrialist Howard Hughes and was later commandeered by the US Navy as the USS Pyrope (PYc-17) for war efforts.
Brown wrote his business memoirs in his book Some of an Industrialist in 1957. The book detailed his work at DuPont and General Motors. Known as a family tradition, both his father, J. Wilcox and his daughter, Greta wrote their memoirs as well. Upon retirement from General Motors, Brown donated many of his papers, speeches, and publications to Hagley Museum and Library, a nonprofit educational institution in Wilmington, Delaware.
In 1965, upon his death, Donaldson Brown willed 20 acres of his estate, including the mansion, to the University of Maryland. The University has kept the mansion in original condition offering a peak into life of years past. Although the estate is primarily utilized for conferences, education, and weddings, guided history tours are offered for public viewing by reservation.
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