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.
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Updated On: Jun 22, 2024 | St. Peter Claver Church is the only predominantly Catholic African American church in St. Mary's County. Its history reflects the history of Maryland.
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Updated On: Apr 17, 2024 | All Saints Parish' history spans over three centuries, encompassing significant moments that have shaped the community. The church was constructed with labor of enslaved
Places to Experience History
Updated On: Apr 17, 2024 | St. Ignatius Church and St. Thomas Manor were founded by Father Andrew White in 1641. Both sites have a deep history with the Jesuits
Places to Experience History
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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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 7, 2024 | Brooks High School was dedicated November 11,1939 as Calvert County’s only African American high school during segregation.,
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Updated On: Apr 17, 2024 | The first chapel of St. Ignatius was built in 1641 by the Jesuits. The church's history involves the Piscataway, plantations, enslaved people, and the
Places to Experience History
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
