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910: 185: 29: 613: 551: 216:, the name '"Rossborough"' refers to the name of the area the inn was built on in the late 18th Century and early 19th Century, after landowner Richard Ross ("Rossborough" was used interchangeably with "Rossburg" as late as the 1920s). By 1835, financial troubles had doomed the business and the building was being used as a farmhouse by its owner, 246:
The building has been used for a variety of purposes since. Currently it contains the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, but it has acted as the home of University of Maryland Faculty and Alumni Club and housed a restaurant, "The Carriage House", that served lunch on weekdays.
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was constructed by land speculator John Ross, to serve people traveling between
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Enrollment Management Offices in University of Maryland, College Park campus
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The Rossborough Inn was a faculty residence when, in 1864, during the
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Rossborough Inn, part of the Maryland Agricultural College ca. 1901
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Buildings and structures in Prince George's County, Maryland
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According to campus lore, the Rossborough Inn is haunted by
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College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
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Extensive renovations by the university (aided by the
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Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
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Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
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University of Maryland, College Park campus
Coordinates
38°59′07″N 76°56′15″W / 38.9853°N 76.9376°W / 38.9853; -76.9376
United States Route 1
University of Maryland at College Park
City of College Park
Federal style
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

inn
tavern
Baltimore
Washington D.C.
Washington and Baltimore Turnpike
University of Maryland Libraries
Charles Benedict Calvert
Riversdale Plantation
Civil War
Confederate Army
Bradley T. Johnson
Frederick, Maryland
ghosts of the American Civil War
federal government
Silenus
Coade stone


"History"
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