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An obligation to restore

Published 04/28/07

Early spring is the optimum time of the year in south county when the trees become green, the pastures lush with grass, and daffodils, lilacs, camelias and dogwoods painting the landscape.

Alison Harbaugh - The Capital The front entrance to Obligation opens to a center hallway. The home was enlarged in 1815.
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John Wilson has seen many spring seasons arrive at his historic home, Obligation, one of south's county's oldest manor houses built on a hill overlooking an estate of about 300 acres. A tobacco farm for more than two centuries, the land is now prime grazing pasture for horses, who are boarded in barns on the property.

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