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Places to Experience History

St. Mary’s County Historical Society

Updated On: Apr 17, 2024 | St. Mary's County Historical Society is located in Tudor Hall in Leonardtown. Their resources are available at the Historical Society's Research Center, through publications

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St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland

Updated On: Apr 19, 2024 | St. Mary's College of Maryland is located next to Historic St. Mary's City and shares the heritage of the region. It acknowledges that heritage,

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Historic Sotterley

Updated On: Oct 31, 2024 | Historic Sotterley is a treasure. with a manor house, a slave cabin and 18 other buildings. More than just buildings and a beautiful setting,

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Middleham Chapel

Updated On: Apr 11, 2024 | Middleham Chapel and the cemetery are over 335 years old. The bell in the chapel was installed in 1699. The cemetery includes graves from

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Elmer Jefferson Brown, Sr.

Updated On: Apr 5, 2024 | Elmer Jefferson Brown, Sr. was an entrepreneur, community activist, and founder of the St. Mary's Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions (UCAC)

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Historic St. Mary’s City

Updated On: Apr 17, 2024 | Historic St. Mary's City provides an opportunity to learn about what life was like for the first settlers in Maryland, and the impact these

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Sergeant Charles Henry Brown

Updated On: Aug 1, 2024 | Sergeant Charles Henry Brown's desire to be free took him from enslaved, to runaway, to a Civil War Colored Troops hero and an activist.

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Calvert Marine Museum

Updated On: Apr 17, 2024 | The Calvert Marine Museum offers a wide range of information about the English settlers in the Colonial period that grew tobacco and shipped it

Places to Experience History

Calvert County Historical Society

Updated On: Apr 11, 2024 | Our collection includes a library offering more than 3,000 titles of published and unpublished materials on local, regional, and family history. Our archives contain

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Bayside History Museum

Updated On: Aug 1, 2024 | The Bayside History Museum educates the public and visitors about the natural and cultural history of North Beach, Chesapeake Beach, and surrounding beach communities

Southern Maryland
Equity in History Coalition

The Southern Maryland Equity in History Coalition is a transformative collaboration of local organizations and educational institutions, committed to elevating the history of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color in our region.

Learn how you can support our mission.

This project has been financed in part with State funds from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, an instrumentality of the State of Maryland. However, project contents or opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority.

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Southern MarylandEquity in History Coalition

The Southern Maryland Equity in History Coalition is a transformative collaboration of local organizations and educational institutions, committed to elevating the history of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color in our region.

Learn how you can support our mission.

Southern Maryland
Equity in History Coalition