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Page 38 December 2016 The Catoctin Banner Newspaper www.TheCatoctinBanner.com Published by www.EPlusPromotes.com
The Present Past
The Immaculate Collection: Hayland
by “My Father’s Son”
Outside Courtesy Photos as opposed to
Emmitsburg, slave labor,
nearly the documented
northernmost by the 1860
one can travel Census, where
before leaving in addition
Maryland for to Mr. and
Pennsylvania, Mrs. Miles,
stands a Sally’s mother,
mansion time and the Miles
forgot, nestled children, were
at the end of a four German
long, private field hands
lane in solitude, and two house
possibly its servants also
savior. This recorded. In
estate, known the late 1800s,
as “Hayland,” the porch
located at the between the
terminus of The restored Hayland Mansion outside Emmitsburg. The “main-block” front The right side façade of the Hayland Mansion, exquisitely depicting the two structures
Mechanicstown façade built by Miles family c. 1850. scale between the Miles “main-block” and the original DuBois house that was enclosed,
creating a
Road, off the is now the manor’s rear-wing.
way to Motter’s Station, is a large, removed from the property during Colonel Thomas Miles. William’s “back-foyer” to the mansion, toting
brick, Italianate-mansion oriented wife, Sarah “Sally” Mickle, was a final, third staircase when added to
to face the 25-foot golden statue of mid-twentieth century ownership, of the daughter of Baltimore’s Robert the formal front-stair (winding from
which the seat board has been found
the Virgin Mary atop the 95-foot in a barn on the property. Come Mickle and Philadelphia’s Jewish the basement to the attic level) and
bell tower at Mount Saint Mary’s Elizabeth Etting. After purchasing primitive stairway left in the DuBois
1808, the Catholic Church required
Seminary. The mansion consists of a DuBois’s relocation of the school the DuBois home, William Miles, section of the now unified home.
“main block” with a lesser-scale wing to the present MSM campus, sited a successful shipping merchant, “You had this enclave of very
extending from the rear façade. To contracted Emmitsburg Master bright, gifted, people that carved out
on the face of Elder’s “St. Mary’s
begin the study of Hayland, however, Mount” for better recognition and Carpenter Joshua Shorb (responsible, their own cultural center at the edge
the origins of Mount Saint Mary’s too, for the later Gothic-remodel of the wilderness—a very close-knit
(MSM) must first be discussed. majesty. DuBois’s land was sold back of the nearby Georgian-home, community with close ties to Mount
to the Elder family. Joseph Elder,
Hayland, sharing borders with either the son or grandson of the “San Marino”) for the hefty sum St. Mary’s” states Hayland’s current
the prominent Elder property that of $5,000 to enlarge the home owner, speaking of the original Elder
held the mansion “Clairvaux” original Elder, William, then resided purchased from Joseph Elder. The property which came to be divided
at DuBois’s former home built c.1805
and original Elder home “Pleasant or earlier as found by dating of proper, “main-block” of the house between the Shorb, Manning, Tiers,
Level,” is in fact the original site of at Hayland today is the addition and Miles families, all wealthy, well-
the floor planks still existing in the
the Catholic college MSM (originally structure. commissioned by the Mile’s family. connected devout Catholics attracted
called Chinquopin), where Father The Mile’s portion of Hayland is by MSM.
In 1846, Joseph Elder, of old age
John DuBois built a home for himself and poor health, moved with his incredibly of post-beam construction, William and Sally Miles’ eldest
and a classroom building on land built like a barn of four-by-four son, George Henry, “the poet of
acquired from the Elder family. The wife to Ohio to live with family, members, secured with wooden pins the mountain” named after his
presumably one of his children,
fact that Hayland is the original and sold the small DuBois home to and cross bracing and completely paternal grandfather, is responsible
site of MSM also likely explains absent of nails. This stately addition for christening his parents’ home
the presence of a 12-seat privy William Miles, a New York native is scaled as a manor of its time should “Hayland.” A poet, novelist, and
born to George H. Miles, the son of
be, with nine-foot, six-over-nine sashes dramatist, George Miles was an
in areas of the first floor (the larger MSM alumnus and English instructor
lower sashes sliding upward over at his alma-mater. At the age of
the top portions and into a wall seven, George Miles was placed
pocket, allowing the windows to act in the care of Monsignor John
as doorways onto a grand, covered, McCaffrey, president of MSM, when
side porch when open). This new, his parents left the country for an
grand home, center-hall in plan, had extended diplomatic assignment in
four bedrooms upstairs and a small, Haiti. McCaffrey became George’s
center chapel at the top of the stairs godfather and mentor for the
with floor-to-ceiling windows facing remainder of his life. (The Mile’s
MSM’s Grotto. The Miles addition daughter, Elizabeth, was sent to St.
was joined to the original DuBois Joseph’s in her parent’s absence.)
home by a porch system, leaving the In line with Hayland’s community’s
original home as a semi-detached focus around MSM, Elizabeth wed
structure operating as a kitchen and MSM Mathematics Professor Col.
servants quarters to the proper Miles Daniel Beltshoover, and George Ms.
manor. The Miles family operated the Adeline Tiers—the daughter of his
Hayland plantation with immigrant
…Continued on page 39
The Present Past
The Immaculate Collection: Hayland
by “My Father’s Son”
Outside Courtesy Photos as opposed to
Emmitsburg, slave labor,
nearly the documented
northernmost by the 1860
one can travel Census, where
before leaving in addition
Maryland for to Mr. and
Pennsylvania, Mrs. Miles,
stands a Sally’s mother,
mansion time and the Miles
forgot, nestled children, were
at the end of a four German
long, private field hands
lane in solitude, and two house
possibly its servants also
savior. This recorded. In
estate, known the late 1800s,
as “Hayland,” the porch
located at the between the
terminus of The restored Hayland Mansion outside Emmitsburg. The “main-block” front The right side façade of the Hayland Mansion, exquisitely depicting the two structures
Mechanicstown façade built by Miles family c. 1850. scale between the Miles “main-block” and the original DuBois house that was enclosed,
creating a
Road, off the is now the manor’s rear-wing.
way to Motter’s Station, is a large, removed from the property during Colonel Thomas Miles. William’s “back-foyer” to the mansion, toting
brick, Italianate-mansion oriented wife, Sarah “Sally” Mickle, was a final, third staircase when added to
to face the 25-foot golden statue of mid-twentieth century ownership, of the daughter of Baltimore’s Robert the formal front-stair (winding from
which the seat board has been found
the Virgin Mary atop the 95-foot in a barn on the property. Come Mickle and Philadelphia’s Jewish the basement to the attic level) and
bell tower at Mount Saint Mary’s Elizabeth Etting. After purchasing primitive stairway left in the DuBois
1808, the Catholic Church required
Seminary. The mansion consists of a DuBois’s relocation of the school the DuBois home, William Miles, section of the now unified home.
“main block” with a lesser-scale wing to the present MSM campus, sited a successful shipping merchant, “You had this enclave of very
extending from the rear façade. To contracted Emmitsburg Master bright, gifted, people that carved out
on the face of Elder’s “St. Mary’s
begin the study of Hayland, however, Mount” for better recognition and Carpenter Joshua Shorb (responsible, their own cultural center at the edge
the origins of Mount Saint Mary’s too, for the later Gothic-remodel of the wilderness—a very close-knit
(MSM) must first be discussed. majesty. DuBois’s land was sold back of the nearby Georgian-home, community with close ties to Mount
to the Elder family. Joseph Elder,
Hayland, sharing borders with either the son or grandson of the “San Marino”) for the hefty sum St. Mary’s” states Hayland’s current
the prominent Elder property that of $5,000 to enlarge the home owner, speaking of the original Elder
held the mansion “Clairvaux” original Elder, William, then resided purchased from Joseph Elder. The property which came to be divided
at DuBois’s former home built c.1805
and original Elder home “Pleasant or earlier as found by dating of proper, “main-block” of the house between the Shorb, Manning, Tiers,
Level,” is in fact the original site of at Hayland today is the addition and Miles families, all wealthy, well-
the floor planks still existing in the
the Catholic college MSM (originally structure. commissioned by the Mile’s family. connected devout Catholics attracted
called Chinquopin), where Father The Mile’s portion of Hayland is by MSM.
In 1846, Joseph Elder, of old age
John DuBois built a home for himself and poor health, moved with his incredibly of post-beam construction, William and Sally Miles’ eldest
and a classroom building on land built like a barn of four-by-four son, George Henry, “the poet of
acquired from the Elder family. The wife to Ohio to live with family, members, secured with wooden pins the mountain” named after his
presumably one of his children,
fact that Hayland is the original and sold the small DuBois home to and cross bracing and completely paternal grandfather, is responsible
site of MSM also likely explains absent of nails. This stately addition for christening his parents’ home
the presence of a 12-seat privy William Miles, a New York native is scaled as a manor of its time should “Hayland.” A poet, novelist, and
born to George H. Miles, the son of
be, with nine-foot, six-over-nine sashes dramatist, George Miles was an
in areas of the first floor (the larger MSM alumnus and English instructor
lower sashes sliding upward over at his alma-mater. At the age of
the top portions and into a wall seven, George Miles was placed
pocket, allowing the windows to act in the care of Monsignor John
as doorways onto a grand, covered, McCaffrey, president of MSM, when
side porch when open). This new, his parents left the country for an
grand home, center-hall in plan, had extended diplomatic assignment in
four bedrooms upstairs and a small, Haiti. McCaffrey became George’s
center chapel at the top of the stairs godfather and mentor for the
with floor-to-ceiling windows facing remainder of his life. (The Mile’s
MSM’s Grotto. The Miles addition daughter, Elizabeth, was sent to St.
was joined to the original DuBois Joseph’s in her parent’s absence.)
home by a porch system, leaving the In line with Hayland’s community’s
original home as a semi-detached focus around MSM, Elizabeth wed
structure operating as a kitchen and MSM Mathematics Professor Col.
servants quarters to the proper Miles Daniel Beltshoover, and George Ms.
manor. The Miles family operated the Adeline Tiers—the daughter of his
Hayland plantation with immigrant
…Continued on page 39
