The Muse-LeCompte Medical Museum

Muse LeCompte Doctor’s Office

The newest building added to the Spocott Windmill complex is the Muse-LeCompte Medical Museum. A doctor’s office, belonging to William Byus LeCompte, was situated on this Hudson Road site in the early to middle 19th century. William was a descendant of the early Dorchester County settler, Anthony LeCompte, who settled in 1659 just north of this location. William was the owner and inhabitant of nearby Spocott at the time.

The office and museum are co-named for the Muse Family, from Dorchester County, which lists ten generations of physicians, impacting both local and Maryland medicine. Both families have a connection to the Spocott property and its history.

The original doctor’s office was destroyed. The current building, which is being used, was moved from the Spocott property and is the same age as LeCompte’s office. From the 1880s into the 20th century, the building was the home of Kemp and Mintie Wilson, who lived at Spocott, where Kemp worked as a farm worker.

The building was moved to the windmill location in 2014 and has been restored. We plan to furnish the building as it probably would have appeared in the middle 19th Century, and that process has begun. We will be looking for donations and purchases of medical furniture and tools to equip the building, which will complete the community of buildings that existed in the area at that period in history: windmill, miller’s cottage, community school, and blacksmith shop. The foundation trustees plan to highlight this early period in Dorchester County Medicine.

Kemp Wilson, Longtime Spocott Resident and Worker