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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3K9_rum-point_Indian-Head-MD.html
1 ½→milesA landing on Mattawoman Creek used from December, 1861 to March, 1862 to unload supplies for a brigade of New Jersey troops encamped nearby.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3K8_smallwoods-home_Marbury-MD.html
One mile from here lived Gen. Wm. Smallwood, commander of the Maryland troops which saved Washington's Army at Long Island. Governor of Maryland from 1785 to 1788. Washington visited here in 1786.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3K5_marshall-hall_Bryans-Road-MD.html
Marshall HallBuilt by Wm. Marshall in 1690 on land obtained from the Piscataway Indians. Maryland landing of Posey ferry used by Washington. Mt. Vernon in sight from river shore.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3GG_cliffton_Newburg-MD.html
On this location Maj. R. G. Watson and his daughter Mary, both Confederate agents, lived and carried on a direct mail and slave route between the North and the South during the entire Civil War. Because of the unobstructed view from these cliffs, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3GF_myrtle-grove-game-refuge_La-Plata-MD.html
800 acres, purchased May 25, 1929, from Walter J. Mitchell, Attorney for Mortgagee; from Hunter's License Fund, for the purpose of propagating game.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FN_huckleberry_Newburg-MD.html
Home of Confederate Mail Agent, Thomas A. Jones, who helped to shelter, and aided the escape of John Wilkes Booth and David Herold in their flight, April 16th to 21st 1865.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2F0_village-of-bryantown_Bryantown-MD.html
This building in the Bryantown Tavern, constructed about 1815. On April 15, 1865, the morning after President Lincoln's assassination, Lt. David D. Dana made it his headquarters while pursuing John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, with a detachment of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EC_crossing-the-potomac_Newburg-MD.html
After assassinating President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice, David A. Herold, fled Washington for Southern Maryland, a hotbed of Confederate sympathizers. Concealed for several days in a pine thicket two m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DY_rich-hill_Bel-Alton-MD.html
After leaving Dr. Samuel A. Mudd's house on April 15, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, and his accomplice David E. Herold avoided Zekiah Swamp and made a wide arc around the village of Bryantown. Unsure of their …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DX_rich-hill_Bel-Alton-MD.html
Mid-18th century farm house (with alterations after 1800) was home of Col. Samuel Cox. This southern sympathizer fed and sheltered fugitives John Wilkes Booth and David E. Herold before dawn on Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865 following Booth's assas…