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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T3G_june-1814-war-visits-the-patuxent-historical_Saint-Leonard-MD.html
Instead of this peaceful scene in front of you, imagine the air. hazy with smoke brightened by the flare of gunfire and rockets. Hear booming cannons, screaming rockets, yelling and shouting. Right here at the mouth of St. Leonard Creek is' where …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SLQ_idyllic-retreat-beach-house-on-the-point_Saint-Leonard-MD.html
The Chesapeake has long been a place to enjoy. This small waterside bath house came complete with men's and ladies' changing rooms, electricity and plumbing, Unusual for any structure in this part of Calvert County in the early 1930s. This was Mr.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S9I_a-place-in-chesapeake-history_Saint-Leonard-MD.html
Here, where St. Leonard Creek meets the Patuxent River, people lived and events took place that helped shape the region's — and America's — history. Look downriver towards Solomons and see the Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge in the dis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JD1_sukeeks-cabin-a-proud-tradition-lives-on_Saint-Leonard-MD.html
JPPM archaeologists had long known that a stone house foundation, overgrown with weeds, sat in the woods in front of you. But who had lived there was a mystery. Then in 1996, two former local residents—-Daniel and Minnie Octavia Gross Brown&…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JD0_what-is-this-big-white-building_Saint-Leonard-MD.html
The Maryland Archaeological Conservation (MAC) Laboratory is a state-of-the-art archaeological research, conservation and collections facility. Opened in 1998, the Lab holds the State's archaeological artifact collections. In the labs, the often f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JC8_valor-at-st-leonard-creek_Saint-Leonard-MD.html
"One of the enemy's rockets fell on board one of our barges, and, after passing through one of the men (one of only three Americans to die from a British rocket during the entire war in Maryland) set the barge on fire...a barrel of powder and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JC7_john-stuart-skinner_Saint-Leonard-MD.html
"Ruffian, Patriot, and Philanthropist..." John Quincy Adams. Born in Calvert County, by 1813 John Stuart Skinner was a Purser for the U.S. Navy, in charge of purchases and accounts for the United States Chesapeake Flotilla. When the Brit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JAO_the-government-at-st-leonards_Saint-Leonard-MD.html
You are now standing on the house site of Richard Smith, Sr., who in 1657 was appointed to fill the newly created office of Attorney General for Maryland. The following year, this plantation—-"St. Leonard's—-was used by the colon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JAN_attention-to-detail-gertrude-sawyer-architect_Saint-Leonard-MD.html
Emphasizing functional requirements as well as traditional Chesapeake Tidewater architecture, Gertrude Sawyer designed 26 Colonial Revival buildings for Patterson's Point Farm from 1932 to 1955. A graduate of the first class (1919) of the Cambridg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JAM_the-search-for-the-chesapeake-flotilla_Saint-Leonard-MD.html
Underwater archaeology is often more difficult than terrestrial archaeology, especially when visibility is poor because of salty water. Side scan sonars and magnetometers (sophisticated metal detectors) are employed in the search for underwater ar…
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