You searched for Postal Code: 20850
Page 5 of 6 — Showing results 41 to 50 of 58
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5XK_stonestreet-medical-museum_Rockville-MD.html
Of the four presidential candidates in 1860, Abraham Lincoln received only 50 of Montgomery County's 2429 votes. Some of Rockville's 365 residents surrendered government jobs in Washington, refusing to sign the Oath of Loyalty, rather than face th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5UT_out-of-robbs-window-montgomery-county-courthouse_Rockville-MD.html
Architect Benjamin Latrobe came to "Montgomery Court House" in 1811 hoping that the fresh air would help his ailing young son recover his health. He stayed at Adam Robb's tavern that may have been located on Lot 4 on Jefferson Street across from t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5S9_christ-episcopal-church_Rockville-MD.html
The first Episcopal church in or near Rockville was built in 1739 on a two-acre parcel of land, part of which is now the Rockville Cemetery. It was constructed of clapboards and logs and was called both the "Chapel of Ease" and Rock Creek Chapel. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM52G_north-adams-street-and-middle-lane-residential-area_Rockville-MD.html
The area at North Adams Street and Middle Lane has four of the oldest surviving Rockville homes: 101, 106, and 5 North Adams, and the Beall-Dawson House.
The 1793 portion of the house at 5 North Adams is probably the oldest structure in Rockvi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4ZW_higgins-house_Rockville-MD.html
Early Sunday morning, June 28, 1863, Confederate cavalrymen arrived at merchant John Higgins' house to arrest him, but he had already left for Christ Episcopal Church. Instead they captured Eblen, a 17 year-old Union soldier recuperating here. Whe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4S2_maj-gen-edward-braddock-and-his-men_Rockville-MD.html
To commemorate the encampment in Maryland of Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock and his men at Owen's Ordinary, now Rockville, April 20, 1755. This stone is placed by the Janet Montgomery Chapter, Daughters of he American Revolution, Mrs. Morris L. Croxall…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4JY_the-prettyman-house_Rockville-MD.html
This house was built on a 13.5-acre lot on the outskirts of Rockville in 1842. A stone marking the southwest corner of the original 1803 Rockville Plan is between this house and the adjacent Rockville Academy grounds. Matilda Holland, widow of Mon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4HA_gettysburg-campaign_Rockville-MD.html
After stunning victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, Virginia, early in May 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee carried the war through Maryland, across the Mason and Dixon Line and into Pennsylvania. His infantry marched north throug…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3VR_court-house-square_Rockville-MD.html
Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and an estimated 5,000 cavalrymen arrived in Rockville, the Montgomery County seat, on June 28, 1863, to a boisterous reception. One soldier described "a spectacle which was truly pleasing . . . It was Sunday, and th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3T0_montgomery-county-court-house_Rockville-MD.html
There have been four court houses in Rockville since it was established as the County seat in 1776. Court was originally held at Hungerford Tavern. A frame court house existed in the late 18th century but was sufficiently outgrown by 1810 to neces…