The Six-Sided Wonder Peachblossom Meeting House by James Dawson Hidden in plain sight on Route 50, about t h ree m i le s sout h of Easton, is one of the unsung architectural gems of Talbot County. You’ve probably driven by it hundreds of times and barely given it a second glance. But you can’t miss it as Peachblossom Meeting House, a.k.a Round Top, is certainly the only hexagonal building with its own historical marker any where along Route 50’s 3,000 miles. The Ma r yla nd Hi stor ic a l Tr u st ha s
deemed it one of the significant structures in Talbot County and its only surviving hexagonal structure from the 19th century. The 1880 building has gone by many names: Union Church, Little Round Top, Peachblossom Meeting and sometimes the Dunkard church. Union Church presumably because it was originally formed by the union of four churches, Little Round Top probably because it sits on a small hill or because of the
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