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Mount Hope Baptist Church

Updated On: Aug 1, 2024 | Mount Hope Baptist Church is the oldest African American Baptist congregations in Charles County. It reflects the emergence of African American communities after the

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Chapman State Park / Mount Aventine Mansion

Updated On: Jan 7, 2025 | 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

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Mallows Bay Park

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

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Village of Pomonkey/Pomonkey Historic District

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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Village of Port Tobacco

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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Old Wallville School

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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The Historic McConchie One-Room School at Charles County Fairgrounds

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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Drayden African American Schoolhouse

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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Camp Stanton

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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William Sampson Brooks High School

Updated On: Apr 7, 2024 | Brooks High School was dedicated November 11,1939 as Calvert County’s only African American high school during segregation.,

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