Mt. Pleasant (Woodstock, Maryland)

Mt Pleasant is a historic home and farm located in Woodstock, Howard County, Maryland.

The land grant of the property was surveyed by Patuxent Ranger Thomas Browne as "Ranter's Ridge" in 1692.

In addition to farming Samuel Brown was elected to three consecutive terms as commissioner of the Howard District of Anne Arundel County starting in 1846.

[1] During the Civil War the farm was the hiding place of 1st Maryland Infantry, CSA General Bradley Tyler Johnson, and munitions storage for the nearby Doughoregan Manor.

[2] In 1993, the farm became the home of the Howard County Conservancy, a private land trust.