Experience Early America at Mount Harmon Plantation

Located at the head of the Chesapeake Bay and surrounded by water on three sides, Mount Harmon Plantation is a beautiful historic site and nature preserve that is worth a visit on your next trip to Maryland's Eastern Shore. This colonial-era tobacco plantation welcomes visitors to learn about life in early America, tour its impeccably restored buildings, stroll its nature trails, and attend educational programming and special events.

You'll enter Mount Harmon down a nearly two-mile scenic lane lined with Osage orange trees. Once on the extensive grounds, visitors will begin their tour in the brick manor house, dating back to about 1730. It has been meticulously restored to reflect its colonial period and is furnished with American, English, Irish and Scottish antiques. Mount Harmon also features a colonial kitchen and hearth; a rare prize house, where tobacco was "prized" into barrels before shipping overseas; a formal boxwood garden; and replicas of a smokehouse, tobacco barn and slave quarters.

Mount Harmon's success as a tobacco plantation and port of trade was dependent on its laborers: enslaved, indentured and tenant farmers. A current project to update Mount Harmon’s slave history is titled “Altered Journeys” and seeks to illuminate the complex histories of all who lived and worked at the plantation. More about the plantation's history is accessible at its Education & Discovery Center, housed in the renovated plantation stables.

Don't leave without exploring the grounds of Mount Harmon's 200-acre waterfront preserve, full of mature shade trees and ornamental specimens. These pristine natural surroundings include five miles of nature trails, gardens, canoe and kayak launch, picnic areas, abundant wildlife (including bald eagles), and rare fauna. You can even take a guided golf cart or hay wagon tour of the grounds and points of interest.

You might consider experiencing Mount Harmon's colonial heritage during one of its special events that connect history with nature. This spring, Mount Harmon will host the first running of the Wicomico Hunt Point to Point on April 10, with 10 races including timber, flat and pony races. At the Revolutionary War Reenactment and Colonial Festival on May 21-22, history will come to life through encampments, colonial hearth cooking and craft demonstrations.

Mount Harmon Plantation
600 Mount Harmon Road
Earleville, MD 21919
410-275-8819