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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5EE_first-people-of-the-potomac_Bryans-Road-MD.html
When Europeans first arrived on the shores of North America, they found a continent inhabited by perhaps tens of millions of people! These people had arrived more than 10,000 years earlier, and through many generations had created complex societie…
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Birthplace of Acting Brigadier General Joseph Lancaster Brent, C.S.A. (1826-1909). He served in the Trans-Mississippi Department during the Civil War and took part in the siege of Vicksburg.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM42F_chandlers-hope_La-Plata-MD.html
— 2 miles →Job Chandler, first Charles County settler, built the oldest part of this house, 1639-1650, aided by the Potopaco Indians. Later it was the birthplace of Archbishop Leonard Neale, one of six brothers, all Catholic priests, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM42B_saint-charles-of-cornwallis-neck_Indian-Head-MD.html
This is the site of Saint Charles Roman Catholic Church. The parish began as a "Station Chapel" in the nearby home of the Charles Pye Family. Priests from St. Thomas Manor House in Port Tobacco came by on horseback to minister to the people. Saint…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM428_surgeon-general-revolutionary-army_La-Plata-MD.html
Dr. James Craik, friend and family physician of Gen Washington, built this place, La Grange, about 1765 and lived here until his removal to Alexandria, VA., 1783.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3OA_church-of-st-joseph_Pomfret-MD.html
Established in 1783by Father Joseph Hunter, S. J.Maurice McDonoughThe eighteenth century merchant who died in 1804 is buried here. He willed his modest wealth to establish free schools for the education of poor children in this section of Charles …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3O8_washingtons-farm_Nanjemoy-MD.html
←Two miles southwest Washington owned 600 acres of land bought in 1775 and retained until his death. In 1786 he visited this property accompanied by Gen. Smallwood.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3O7_general-daniel-e-sickles-u-s-a_Nanjemoy-MD.html
Commander of the "Excelsior Brigade", New York Volunteers, maintained headquarters here October 1861 to March 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3O5_the-monastery_La-Plata-MD.html
First Carmel in U.S. Founded October 15, 1790, by four Carmelites from Belgium three of them natives of Maryland. Nuns moved to Baltimore Sept. 13, 1831. The restorers of Mt. Carmel in Md Recoverd site March 27, 1935. Restored buildings 1937.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3KP_general-smallwoods-gravesite_Indian-Head-MD.html
General William SmallwoodA hero of the American Revolutionand a native of MarylandCommissioned Colonel in 1776Brigadier General in 1777Major General in 1780Elected Governor of Maryland in 1785Died February 14, 1792Erected over his remains by the M…