The website identifies and describes locations across Southern Maryland that offer the opportunity to visit remarkable sites and experience and learn history firsthand. These range from an elegant plantation manor house like Sotterley, to vacant fields where history happened such as Camp Stanton.
Places to Experience History
Updated On: Apr 4, 2024 | Chapman Park was the home of indigenous people approximately 3,000 years ago. Later the Chapman plantation relied on enslaved laborers to tend to the
Places to Experience History
Updated On: Aug 1, 2024 | Mallows Bay Park boasts a collection of historic shipwrecks dating back to the Civil War, and archaeological artifacts nearly 12,000 years old. It also
Places to Experience History
Updated On: Apr 4, 2024 | Pomonkey Historic District is notable as a historically African American commercial enclave, which served the community during the early twentieth century when many local
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Updated On: Apr 4, 2024 | Port Tobacco was one of Maryland's largest international seaports in the years before the American Revolution.
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Updated On: Mar 28, 2024 | The Old Wallville School is the oldest surviving one-room school for African American children in Calvert County.
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Updated On: Jun 20, 2024 | The McConchie One-Room School at the Charles County Fairgrounds is typical of the majority of public schools constructed after the Civil War.
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Updated On: Mar 28, 2024 | Drayden African American Schoolhouse is one of the best-preserved African American schoolhouses in the country,
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Updated On: Aug 13, 2024 | Camp Stanton was established in October 1863 for the purpose of recruiting and training African American men of Maryland for the Union Army during
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Updated On: Apr 7, 2024 | Brooks High School was dedicated November 11,1939 as Calvert County’s only African American high school during segregation.,
Places to Experience History
Updated On: Aug 13, 2024 | Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery was originally known as White Marsh Plantation owned by the Jesuits. Georgetown University was planned here. The
