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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IJA_woodville-school_Aquasco-MD.html
Constructed in 1934 to serve area African-American children, with labor furnished by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and materials purchased by the county board of Education. Larger better equipped than the typical rural schools of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I5C_brig-gen-leonard-covington_Aquasco-MD.html
Brig Gen Leonard Covington 1768-1813 War of 1812 hero born at nearby Covington Farm, Aquasco. Covington served in the Maryland Senate (1802, 1807-1809) and U.S. House of Representatives (1805-1807). Mortally wounded on November 11, 1813, at the Ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FBQ_alarming-sight_Aquasco-MD.html
Amid rumors of a large British force on the Patuxent, Secretary of State James Monroe scouted the situation. From heights near Aquasco Mills August 20, 1814, he spotted the enemy vessels landing at Benedict.
Alarmed, Monroe positioned soldiers on …