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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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Places to Experience
| Piney Point Lighthouse stands preserved as the oldest lighthouse on the Potomac River. The Maritime History building showcases locally made boats and stories of
Places to Experience
| St. Clement’s Island Museum rests on the east shore of the Potomac River overlooking St. Clement’s Island, Maryland’s First Colonial Landing in 1634. Exhibits
Places to Experience Photo Gallery
| The Old Wallville School is the oldest surviving one-room school for African American children in Calvert County.
Places to Experience Photo Gallery
| Drayden African American Schoolhouse is one of the best-preserved African American schoolhouses in the country,
Places to Experience History
| This facility has over 10 million artifacts dating the full span of human history.
Places to Experience
| The African American Heritage Society's mission is to foster awareness and an understanding of the African American way of life; to share the cultural
Places to Experience History Photo Gallery
| Historic Sotterley is a treasure. with a manor house, a slave cabin and 18 other buildings. More than just buildings and a beautiful setting,
Places to Experience History
| 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
Places to Experience History
| The Calvert Marine Museum offers a wide range of information about the English settlers in the Colonial period that grew tobacco and shipped it