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Thomas Stone National Historic Site encompasses Haberdeventure, the plantation home of Thomas Stone, one of Maryland's four signers of the Declaration of Independence. Stone provided leadership to our emerging nation as delegate to the Continental Congress from 1775-78 and from 1783-84. He served on the committee that drafted our country's first system of government, the Articles of Confederation. His crowning achievement came on August 2, 1776 when he helped to launch this nation by signed the Declaration of Independence.
Today, the 322 acre site contains Thomas Stone's five-part tidewater plantation house, several outbuildings typical of an eighteenth and nineteenth century Maryland plantation, the Stone Family cemetery, historic farm trace roads, forests and fields.
Desginations
November 10, 1978 - National Historic Site
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