Maria grew up on a farm on Lincoln Street. Because her husband's importing business moved to New York, Maria and William bought a house in Brooklyn, NY. But they missed the country, so in 1853, her husband bought a Lexington farmhouse that had belonged to Maria's father, on Cary Avenue. They remodeled it and it became known as the Cary Mansion. The house burned down after her death, but legend has it that her ghost still wanders the neighborhood. She really loved Lexington.
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