[4] Howard's Adventure would go on to be the home of Charles's son, Philip Hammond [Wikidata] and his family,[5] after buying out his brother's rights to the land.

Philip Hammond was a planter and slaveholder who served in Maryland's Lower House of the Assembly[6] representing Anne Arundel County from 1732 to 1760.

[8] Over his lifetime, Philip Hammond would become one of Maryland's largest landowners, and during his ownership of the property, the acreage of Howard's Adventure would increase beyond its initial 500 acre parcel.

[4] At the time of Philip Hammond's death in 1760, he owned 107 slaves and more than 20,000 acres of land across Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties.

Unusual for a landowner at the time, Rezin Hammond led a radical wing at the Maryland Convention in support of the right to vote for all free taxpayers, regardless of their property holdings.

[3] Over the ensuing years, the plantation's acreage would be parceled and divided as it was passed down through the extended Hammond family's heirs.

The basement had six feet thick foundation walls of field stone, and much of the home's original wood paneling was intact.

[17] In 1978, the Department of the Navy wrote to the National Register of Historic Places to inform them that the house was targeted by vandals and burned on October 15 of that year.

[17] In the early 1900s, a typhoid epidemic traced to the commercial milk supply encouraged the US Navy to establish its own dairy farm.

A report to Congress by the Comptroller General of the United States in 1966 strongly urged the Navy to discontinue the dairy, as its operations were not cost effective, and it was no longer needed for health reasons.

[26] Due to repeated thefts, the USNA has frequently had to move the animal mascots from the property prior to games for their protection.

[31] In leasing the farm, the county agreed to continue to house Navy mascot, Bill the Goat at the site, and improve security.

[34] Upon learning of the Navy's plans to convert the site, local officials and members of the community in Anne Arundel County voiced concerns, seeking to maintain the property's agricultural nature.