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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFH_an-ideal-crossing_Poolesville-MD.html
The Potomac River is calm and narrow here, making it an ideal location for a ferry crossing. In 1791 Edwards Ferry began to operate here, connecting Maryland farmers to the Goose Creek Canal in Virginia and to the Leesburg markets. The ferry close…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFG_charlestown_Charlestown-MD.html
Laid out and erected as a town by Act of Assembly in 1742 "there being as yet no such place settled at, or near the head of Chesapeake Bay." George Washington records many visits to Charlestown in his diary. He lodged here August 10, 1795 and Sept…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFF_darnestown_Darnestown-MD.html
On June 25-27, 1863, the Federal Army of the Potomac used two temporary pontoon bridges to cross the Potomac River from Virginia back into Maryland at Edwards Ferry. On the evening and morning of June 27-28, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart led 5,00…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFE_mt-ephraim-crossroads_Dickerson-MD.html
You are looking at Sugarloaf Mountain, where the running cavalry fight that began in the late afternoon on September 9, 1862, in Barnesville came to a halt. By the next morning, the 7th and 9th Virginia Cavalry had been brought to bay here at the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFD_beallsville_Beallsville-MD.html
On September 9, 1862, the running engagement between Illinois, Indiana, and Virginia cavalry units that began the day before in Poolesville continued in Beallsville when two Federal regiments forced the single regiment of Virginia cavalrymen poste…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFC_whites-ferry_Boyds-MD.html
→ 12 Miles →And old ferry and ford across the Potomac River often used during the war between the states by Confederate forces under Generals Robert E. Lee, Jubal Early, J.E.B. Stuart and others during campaigns and raids in Maryland.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFA_barnesville_Barnesville-MD.html
On the evening of September 5, 1862, Gen. Wade Hampton's and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's Confederate cavalry brigades bivouacked around Barnesville. They rode the next day to their base camp at Urbana, leaving the 9th Virginia Cavalry to guard Barnesville…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF9_barnesville_Barnesville-MD.html
The advance of Union Gen. John F. Reynolds' I Corps began slogging through Barnesville on the morning of Friday, June 26, 1863, having crossed the Potomac River the afternoon before and camped west of town. Continuous heavy rain made marching mudd…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF1_founders-gateway_College-Park-MD.html
(Right Tablet) Erected in honor of those through whose contributions was established The Maryland Agricultural College (list of names)
(Left Tablet) The University of Maryland The Maryland Agricultural College was founded on this campus in 1856…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEK_brookland_Perryville-MD.html
To present log wing, believed built in 1735, George Gale added fieldstone section c. 1781. Further additions to house were made in 19th century. Gale, born in Somerset County in 1756, served in Continental Army during Revolutionary War. Was member…