Oakdale Manor

{{short description|Historic house in Maryland, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

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| name = Oakdale

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| image = Oakdale Manor.jpg

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| location = 16449 Edwin Warfield Road, Woodbine, Maryland

| coordinates = {{coord|39|17|18|N|77|04|56|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Maryland#USA

| area =

| built = 1838

| architect =

| architecture = Brick Palladian

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| refnum = 14001041{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/weekly-list-2014-national-register-of-historic-places.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2014-12-24|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/15/14 through 12/19/14|publisher=National Park Service}}

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Oakdale is a historic plantation located in Daisy, (Woodbine) Howard County, Maryland, former home of Maryland Governor Edwin Warfield.

Oakdale resides on a land grant surveyed by William Shipley in Feb 16, 1765 named "Fredericks Burgh". The land was patented in March 1765 by Henry Griffith and repatented as "Addition to Part of Fredericks Borough"{{cite book |last1=Stein |first1=Charles Francis |title=Origin and History of Howard County Maryland |date=1972 |publisher=Charles Francis Stein, Jr. |page=272 |edition=First |language=English}} Oakdale was built in 1838 by Albert Galltin Warfield, great grandson of Captain Benjamin Warfield of Cherry Grove and his wife Margret Gassaway Watkins. In 1891 Edwin Warfield moved to the 265 acre Oakdale Manor after the death of his father and expanded the building to over twenty rooms.{{cite book|title=Old homes and families of Howard County, Maryland: with consideration of various additional points of interest|author=Celia M. Holland|page=300}} The property includes a pre-1838 log slave quarters, tenant house, carriage house, smokehouse, barn, and an Octagon glass greenhouse. Oakdale was the site of the reunion of Company A of the Confederate States of America which he served. In 1904, Warfield became governor of Maryland.{{cite book|title=Howard's Roads to the Past|page=93|publisher=Howard County Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee, 2001|year=2001}}{{cite journal|journal=Town and Country|title=MARYLAND'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE AT HOME|author=C.R.Miller|date=28 September 1907}} The Governor hosted troops under the command of his appointee, Adjutant-General of the Maryland National Guard Clinton L. Riggs at Oakdale in 1907.{{cite news|newspaper=The Washington Post|title=TROOP A AT OAKDALE.: Gov. Warfield Says His Outing with Soldiers Is One of Pleasure.|date=19 August 1907}} Warfield's grandson Edwin Warfield III sold the manor in the mid-1970s{{cite news|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|title=Gen. Warfield retiring as adjutant general|date=16 November 1979}}{{cite web|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-1551.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Oakdale |date=n.d. |accessdate=2016-01-01 |author=Cleora B. Thompson|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust}}

The Manor was subdivided to 54 acres and acquired by James F Jackson III who conducted a restoration in 1974.{{cite web|title=HO-2 Oakdale|url=http://mdihp.net/dsp_county.cfm?search=county&id=15575&viewer=true&updated=N&criteria1=O&criteria2=HO|accessdate=17 August 2014}} The house was purchased by Ted Mariani in 1980 who expanded the property with a solarium. In 2014 he announced plans to convert the farm use from winter wheat, soybean, corn and timothy crops to a class II winery and agritourism location for events up to 150 persons.{{cite news|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|title=Howard's first farm winery gains approval|author=Amanda Yeager|date=16 October 2014}} The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December 2014.