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| History opportunity for St. Mary's County middle and high school students. Projects due March 8, 2025. Scan QR code for more information or call
Article History
| How the Maryland Constitution, passed on November 1, 1864 providing for the emancipation of all enslaved in the State, effect Southern Maryland.
Article History
| Extracts from journals kept by three young ladies from Billerica, Massachusetts. The first person accounts record their experiences “while working as volunteers to work
History
| Pomfret "Colored School" in Charles County was built as an expansion of the original Pomfret one room school in the 1920's.
History
| The report on Piscataway Park creates a historical and ethnographic context for the park. It identifies community-associated groups and other stakeholders, and reviews, collects,
Article History
| During the New Deal, architect Albert I. Cassell envisioned Calvert Town, an economic self-reliant community for African Americans on the Chesapeake Bay.
Notable People History
| Albert Cassell, famous Black architect, planned a town on 500 acres for African Americans he called Calvert Town.
Notable People History Photo Gallery
| During the War of 1812, at the age of 13, Gabriel Hall escaped slavery in Calvert County and created a successful life for himself
Notable People History
| Betty Stewart Coates at 18, with her small child, was a refugee daring to escape enslavement for freedom on a British ship on the
Article History
| Maryland enslaved were not freed on June 19, 1865, with Granger's General Order No. 3 nor with Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. When were they freed?

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