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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EG_william-penn_Harwood-MD.html
Came here to the home of Col. Thomas Tailler on "the ridge" December 13, 1682 for his first conference with Charles Lord Baltimore as to the location of the boundary line between Maryland and Pennsylvania.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EF_william-penn_Galesville-MD.html
Attended a meeting of the Friends (Quakers) at Thomas Hooker's December 1682 on this tract called "Brownton" (patented in 1652 for 660 acres). Penn sailed from here across the Bay to the Choptank River to a General Meeting of the Friends.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EC_william-penn_West-River-MD.html
Visited his Quaker friend William Richardson near this spot after the conference at Col. Thomas Tailler's December 13, 1682. Lord Baltimore and the members of his Council accompanied him to this place.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EB_old-quaker-burying-ground_Harwood-MD.html
Here April, 1672, George Fox, founder of Quakerism, opened the first General Meeting of Friends in Maryland, marking the beginning of West River Yearly Meeting and its successor, Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends. Site of West River Quaker Meeti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EA_wesley-grove-united-methodist-church_Hanover-MD.html
Consecrated Sunday, November 4, 1951, by the joint congregations of Friendship and Ridge Methodist Churches.
Timber Ridge and Friendship Methodist Churches.Timber Ridge Church was built c.1840 two miles to the east. It was disbanded in 1869 whe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BT_the-old-south-river-club_Harwood-MD.html
Organized 1700. House built 1742. The oldest social club in America.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BS_larkins-hills_Harwood-MD.html
Charles Lord Baltimore and his council attended the meeting of the Assembly here Oct. 2 - Nov. 6, 1663. 31 towns and ports of entry were established at this session in the several counties along the bay. Practically none of these towns exist at th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BO_all-hallows-church_Edgewater-MD.html
All Hallows Parish, South River, one of the orginal thirty parishes created by law in 1692 when the Anglican Church was established in Maryland. The present Georgian church was built c. 1730. Several prominent London Town merchants are buried in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BL_holly-hill_Friendship-MD.html
Surveyed, 1663, as Holland's Hills for Francis Holland; bought 1665, by Richard Harrison, Quaker planter and shipowner, who owned about 6,000 acres. The house, built in three stages between 1665 and 1733 by Richard Harrison and his son Samuel, is …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BF_watkins-slave-cemetery_Davidsonville-MD.html
At this site, anonymously buried slaves were found during road construction in 1960. These unclaimed individuals were associated with the Locust Grove plantation founded by 1848. The remains were reburied at Mt. Tabor Church in nearby Chesterfield…