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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCOM_transportation-on-the-chesapeake-highway_Annapolis-MD.html
"...two Ferry boats were procured...we made the mouth of the Severn River but the ignorance of the People on board, with respect to the navigation of it run us aground first on Greenbury Point from whence with much exertion and difficulty we got o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCOL_annapolis-capital-of-commerce_Annapolis-MD.html
In the decades before the American Revolution, Annapolis was the customs port for the upper Bay western shore. Ships clearing in and out paid duties and fees to the local naval officer. With good shipyards (including Ship Carpenters Lot north of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCO0_gateway-to-discovery_Annapolis-MD.html
Look around the harbor. Imagine what the first colonists saw more than 350 years ago when they first viewed this Chesapeake Bay peninsula: a pristine, abundant natural site with deep, protected harbors that had experienced little human settlement.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBKR_shiplap-house_Annapolis-MD.html
One of the oldest surviving houses in Annapolis, Shiplap House served as a store and tavern in the eighteenth century. The house is named for the random-width flush siding (called shiplap) on the rear facade and northeast ell. The building now ser…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBKQ_cornhill-fleet-streets_Annapolis-MD.html
The oldest surviving map of Annapolis, drawn by James Stoddert in 1718, shows that the area now occupied by Corhill and Fleet Streets, had been set aside for Governor Francis Nocholson for use as a garden, summer house and vineyard. In 1771 Charle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBKP_general-washington_Annapolis-MD.html
Standing on this spot, General Washington resigned his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army on December 23rd, 1783.
Presented by the Peggy Stewart Tea Party Chapter D.A.R. December 23rd, 1915.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65Z_admiral-ben-moreell_Annapolis-MD.html
[First Panel]:]About the SeabeesBorn in the early days of World War II when the nation was in dire peril, their mission was to build bases for the combat forces, to defend those bases, and to provide other support of whatever kind required.
Org…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5X9_southgate-memorial_Annapolis-MD.html
To the memory of Rev. William Scott Southgate, for thirty years rector of Saint Anne's Parish in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Born April 10, 1831. Died May 21, 1899.
Reverse side: Erected by the citizens of Annapolis and by his old parishione…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5X6_between-morning-and-midnight_Annapolis-MD.html
The firefighter and EMS provider are ascending the staircase of time as they depart from this world. they are running to their calling to do the job of serving our community with strenght, determination and sacrifice as if going to war. The second…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5WZ_sons-of-the-revolution_Annapolis-MD.html
This monument honors unknown French soldiers and sailors who gave their lives in the American War of Independence and were buried near here.
Dedicated by President Williams Howard Taft, April 18, 1911
"Our soldiers rest in hallowed ground in…