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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHG_rock-presbyterian-church_Elkton-MD.html
Founded 1720 in North Milford Hundred, Cecil County, Maryland. First called New Erection on the Branches of Elk River, then Elk River Church, Great Elk, upper Elk and, since 1793, Rock. Present church erected 1761 remodeled in 1844 and 1900.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHF_new-munster_Elkton-MD.html
A tract of 6,000 acres laid out in 1683 by George Talbot (then surveyor-general of Maryland for Edwin O'Dwire and 15 other Irishmen. Its northern boundary extended into what is now the State of Pennsylvania.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHE_this-tablet-is-in-commemoration_Colora-MD.html
This Tablet is in Commemoration of Richard Stockton and Dr. Benjamin Rush signers of the Declaration of Independence and students of West Nottingham Academy. Stockton from 1743 to 1748 - Rush from 1751 to 1756.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHD_west-nottingham-academy_Colora-MD.html
Founded 1744 by by Samuel Finley, Presbyterian Minister and a native of County Armagh, Ireland. He remained in charge of the academy and church until 1761 when he was chosen President of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHC_the-nottingham-lots_Rising-Sun-MD.html
37 lots of approximately 500 acres each given by William Penn to his colonists in 1702 although they lay in Maryland and were part of George Talbot's "Susquehanna Manor" of 32,000 acres granted him in 1680 by Lord Baltimore.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH9_richards-oak_Rising-Sun-MD.html
General Lafayette and his army camped around this tree April 12, 1781. A Civil War cavalry unit later occupied the site. The oak, over 500 years old was owned by the Thomas Richards family for over a century. A huge limb fell August 1964, splittin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH7_calvert-village_Rising-Sun-MD.html
40 acre grant from William Penn in 1701 on which present East Nottingham Friends Meeting House built, 1724, with stone addition completed in 1752. Used as an American Army hospital in 1778. Cross Keys Tavern built in 1744, was mid-way on Old Balti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH4_brick-meeting-house_Rising-Sun-MD.html
William Penn set aside lot no. 30 (500 acres) of the "Nottingham Lots" in 1702 for a "common" and site of a "meeting house" as a bold move in the boundary line dispute with Lord Baltimore. It has been continuously used since the first log meeting …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH2_ellicotts-mills_Ellicott-City-MD.html
Established 1772 by the three Ellicott brothers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. They opened the road from here to Baltimore. The B. and O. R. R. was completed to this point May 20, 1830.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH1_sugarloaf-mountain_Dickerson-MD.html
You are at the foot of Sugarloaf Mountain, where on September 5-6, 1862, Union observers watched the Army of Northern Virginia cross the Potomac River to invade Maryland. A signal station had been established here in the summer of 1861, one in a c…