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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH0_susquehanna-manor_Charlestown-MD.html
32000 acres granted to George Talbot with Right of Court Baron and Court Leet, June 11, 1680.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGX_george-washington_Ijamsville-MD.html
George Washington stopped in a building two hundred yards west of here known as Peter's Tavern Thursday June 30, 1791.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGW_landon-house_Frederick-MD.html
Constructed in 1754 on the banks of the Rappahannock River in Virginia, this building was reconstructed here in 1846 and became Landon Female Academy. Early in September 1862, while infantry of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia rested…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGV_carrollton-manor_Adamstown-MD.html
On Saturday, September 6, 1862, the Army of Northern Virginia was spread along the entire length of Buckeystown Turnpike all the way to Frederick. The soldiers camped in the fields on either side of the road on the evenings of September 5-6, and b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGU_buckeystown-park_Adamstown-MD.html
On the south end of this park, the road from Urbana to Buckeystown crossed the Monocacy River over a stone bridge. Some of the Confederate troops camped here on September 6, 1862, while some crossed the bridge to bivouac on a knoll overlooking the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGT_carrollton_Buckeystown-MD.html
Patented for 10,000 acres to Charles and Daniel Carroll, Mary and Ellinor Carroll 1st April 1724. It was from this tract that Charles Carroll assumed the title "Charles Carroll of Carrollton" when signing the Declaration of Independence.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGS_wilna_Elkton-MD.html
Boyhood home of William Whann Mackall. Appointed to the U. S. Military Academy in 1834, resigned from the U. S. Army. Joined the confederacy and served on the staffs of Generals Albert Sydney Johnson, Braxton Bragg and Joseph E. Johnston. General …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGP_poolesville_Poolesville-MD.html
During the Civil War, more soldiers passed through Poolesville than any other Montgomery County town. Union forces occupied this bustling village throughout most of the war, protecting the strategic road network, lines of communication and supplie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGO_greenbelt-lake_Greenbelt-MD.html
Construction on the Greenbelt project began with this lake on October 12, 1935. Originally a heavily wooded 23-acre valley cut by a stream, the lake required one year and over two hundred men to complete it. Because the federal government was inte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGN_poolesville_Poolesville-MD.html
Located at the intersection of the two main roads, mid-19th century Poolesville was Montgomery County's second-largest town. Its residents had decidedly secessionist tendencies and many sons fighting for the South. In the fall of 1862, as the Conf…