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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1716_john-smith-explores-the-chesapeake_Vienna-MD.html
Captain John Smith explored the Chesapeake Bay in the early 1600s seeking metals and a passage to Asia. He traveled the James, Chickahominy, and York rivers in 1607, and led two major expeditions from Jamestown in 1608. Smith and his crew sailed a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM170B_discover-vienna_Sharptown-MD.html
In 1608, when English Captain John Smith sailed up the Nanticoke River in a small, open boat, he met and traded with the native people near here. Today Vienna is a stop on the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.
Founded in 17…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1707_discover-the-nanticoke_Sharptown-MD.html
In 1608, English Captain John Smith's explorations of the Chesapeake Bay led him up the Nanticoke River. He may have felt as if he were exploring the New World, but the Native Americans he encountered had been living in the region for millennia. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1705_discover-vienna-heritage_Vienna-MD.html
Welcome to Vienna, Maryland. Situated on a bend in the Nanticoke River, Vienna has been a crossroads, a trading center, and a gateway to the Chesapeake Bay for centuries. Today Vienna is busily planning for its future while embracing its past. Wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUWL_freedom_Hurlock-MD.html
We the people honor these men who brought democracy to Dorchester County July 8, 1985 by a change of the Constitution of Maryland ordered by the United States Courts:
George C. Jones, Charles F. Hurley Sr., Don W. Bradley, Oliver Harding, Rich…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUGZ_anna-ella-carroll_Woolford-MD.html
Anna Ella Carroll was born on Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1815. Often called an unofficial member of President Abraham Lincoln's cabinet, she was a Unionist author and newspaper reporter who had traveled extensively throughout the South and Midwes…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM87D_choptank-river-bridge_Cambridge-MD.html
The Choptank River BridgePrior to the Governor Emerson C. Harrington Bridge which was built over the Great Choptank River in 1935 (the Chesapeake Bay Bridge at Kent Island did open until 1947) ferries were used to cross the river. President Frankl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM591_a-landscape-and-lifestyle-defined-by-water_Cambridge-MD.html
A Landscape and Lifestyle Defined by WaterDorchester County consists of 688 square miles of which approximately 1/3 is water. The extensive waterways and marshland have played a significant role in the development of the county. Only 20 miles of i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM590_choptank-rivers-natural-history_Cambridge-MD.html
The Chesapeake Bay was once the extended valley of the Susquehanna River, which flowed directly into the ocean near the mouth of the bay. The Bay and all its tributaries were once non-tidal freshwater rivers flowing through valleys in the last ice…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM58L_marylands-eastern-shore_Cambridge-MD.html
Although isolated from Maryland's largest population centers, the Eastern Shore was important to the state's role in the Civil War and exemplified the citizens' divided loyalties.
In the years before the war, enslaved African-Americans here beg…