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What does a lighthouse mean to you? For some, a lighthouse stands for security, providing safe passage home from a treacherous journey. For others, a lighthouse harkens back to a simpler time, before modern technology altered our connection with t…
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The Turkey Point Lighthouse stands proudly on a 100-foot bluff looking south over the Chesapeake Bay. Built in 1833, the lighthouse pointed the way to safe waters for nearly 175 years. It played a vital part in protecting the lives and livelihoods…
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From Bulls (or Bull) Mountain, American militia had a commanding view of Elk Neck peninsula. The observed the Upper Chesapeake Bay and North East River to the north and west, and Elk River to the south and east. As enemy ships approached on April…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHH_blue-ball-tavern_North-East-MD.html
Established about 1710 on Lot No. 35 of "The Nottingham Lots" by Andrew Job who secured it from William Penn. Job's son, Thomas married Elizabeth Maxwell, niece of Daniel Defoe who wrote "Robinson Crusoe."
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFP_overlook-of-general-howes-landing_North-East-MD.html
On August 25, 1777, after a month's voyage from New York, 15,000 British troops led by Sir William Howe disembarked on the shores of the Elk River approximately 2 miles east of this site. The fleet of 300 vessels which had transported them was und…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFO_gilpins-falls-covered-bridge_North-East-MD.html
Built circa 1860, the bridge is one of the few covered ones left in Maryland and the only one on public ground in Cecil County. The area to the East has been the site of several mills, the earliest Samuel Gilpin's flour mill circa 1735. · B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFN_st-mary-annes-church_North-East-MD.html
The building, erected 1742, is one of the oldest in Cecil County. The cornerstone bears the initials of the Rector and Vestrymen at that time. Communion vessels, a bible and a book of common prayer presented 1718 by Queen Anne of England still are…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFM_north-east_North-East-MD.html
George Talbot of Susquehanna Manor renamed North East River, "The River Shannon." The iron forges of the Principio Company were located here. Saint Mary Ann's Parish Church is one of the oldest in Cecil County. Russell, one of the owners of the Pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFI_lt-col-nathaniel-ramsay_North-East-MD.html
Member of Council of Safety and Courageous Officer of the Maryland Line in Revolutionary War, native of Pennsylvania, Princeton Graduate (1767) and lawyer. He settled in brick house near this site after his marriage in 1771 to Margaret Jean Peale.…
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