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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4HL_chesapeake-beach-railway_Chesapeake-Beach-MD.html
Built by Otto Mears of Colorado in 1897. The train track linking Washington, D.C. to Chesapeake Beach crossed here. The original depot to the east is now the Railway Museum. Excursion steamboats also brought passengers to Chesapeake Beach from Bal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM36W_harriet-elizabeth-brown_Sunderland-MD.html
During the period of racially segregated education, elementary school teacher Brown enlisted the N.A.A.C.P. and attorney Thurgood Marshall to challenge the inequity of seperate salary scales for public school teachers based on race. Her case was s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PI_the-first-all-saints-church_Sunderland-MD.html
Authorized in 1692 by the Maryland Assembly the first All Saints (log) Church was built near this site "at the cross-roads of the Severn Ridge Path and the road leading to Coxtown" on land donated by early French Huguenot settler Thomas Hilleary (…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PH_all-saints-episcopal-church_Huntingtown-MD.html
All Saints, one of the original parishes of Maryland, included all the land north of Hunting Creek in Calvert County. The present church was started in 1774 by exchange of tobacco under the rectorship of Reverend Thomas John Clagett, later the fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PF_st-leonard-polling-house-and-garden-of-remembrance_St-Leonard-MD.html
This polling house was built in 1926 and residents voted here until 1974. The Garden of Remembrance honors all those held dear in the hearts of area residents. It also honors First Ladies Mrs. John Quincy Adams and Mrs. Zachary Taylor, who were re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PD_brewhouse_St-Leonard-MD.html
5½ Miles. ← Mackall's Landing. Birthplace of Thomas Johnson (1732-1819), member of Continental Congress 1774. Nominated Washington as Commander-in-Chief Continental Army 1775. First elected Governor of Maryland 1777. Associate Justice U…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PB_early-settlements_St-Leonard-MD.html
Town of St. Leonard was originally, in 1663, at mouth of St. Leonard Creek. By 1706, when chartered by Maryland General Assembly as a port of entry, it had been moved to head of creek near here. British forces burned its wharves and warehouses Jul…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PA_st-leonard-creek_St-Leonard-MD.html
In June, 1814, Maryland's Commodore Joshua Barney commanded American flotilla of barges, gunboats and a sloop in attacks on superior British forces in Patuxent River and its tributary, St. Leonard Creek. After flotilla moved up Patuxent and was bl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P9_preston-on-patuxent_Lusby-MD.html
← Home of Richard Preston, Commander of the North Bank of the Patuxent River 1649. Seat of the Puritan Government of Maryland where the colonial records were kept 1653-1657.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P7_m-m-davis-shipyard_Solomons-MD.html
1885 Marcellus M. Davis established his shipyard at this location, in 1913 the yard was moved to larger quarters across the harbor on Mill Creek. During the 1930's, Davis' yard produced many outstanding wooden yachts which brought international fa…