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If you are looking for a local moving company to relocate you in or out of Londontowne, MD, we can help you.  Movers USA's moving services include packing, crating, moving, and storage if you need some time to search for your new home.

To help familiarize you with this fine neighborhood, please read our brief history about Londontowne, MD.  It's interesting.

A Brief History of Londontowne, Maryland

The sole surviving building of the hard-scrabble village of London Town is its grand exception. During the 18th century, most of the white inhabitants arriving in the port of London stepped on American soil as bonded servants.

A lot came over in bondage as convicts, says Stiverson of the people who settled the village that, two and one-half centuries later, has come under his care. You think of England sending its convicts to Australia, but the only reason they sent them there was that we won the Revolutionary War. Prior to that they sent them all over here.

These early Marylanders lived in cramped quarters, in post-in-the-hole buildings that swayed and shook during the harsh winter nights.

The Brown House was London Town's first great American success story. A carpenter, cabinetmaker, ferryman and innkeeper, Brown settled in what was one of Anne Arundel County's few towns during the 1700s. In a tobacco port bustling with sailors and merchants, local planters, slaves, small farmers and a variety of artisans, Brown built himself a stately brick mansion. But the ambitious contractor spent beyond his means and fell on hard times.

Brown's personal hard times were shared by London Town. Removed from the list of tobacco trade powerhouses after the Revolutionary War, the town died.

Over the years, Brown's brick mansion survived. Not without its own hard times. In our century, it served as the Anne Arundel County almshouse until 1965.

Then, a group of local volunteers pushed for the house to become an historic spot. Their success made first the London Town Publik House, as it was called, and then the garden the only London Town most 20th century Marylanders knew.