Historic Strasburg

Stop #4

The Town Run is to your right. One source of the stream comes from a spring several blocks north at Hupp's Homestead. Bruce Hupp had his commercial watercress beds there. Often he boarded the train at Strasburg Depot in ...

Bushfield

A mile and a half east, this was the home of John Augustine Washington, younger brother of George Washington, who visited here. Here was born, in 1762, Bushrod Washington, who became Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1798, ...

The Glebe

Five miles north is the home of the rectors of Cople Parish, one of whom, Walter Jones, married Washington’s parents, March 6, 1781. Here lived Thomas Smith, rector of the parish, 1764–1799, and chairman of the County Committee of Safety, ...

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

Founded by R.V. Truitt, 1925. Sponsored by Maryland Conservation Department since 1931, in cooperation with Carnegie Institution, Johns Hopkins and Maryland universities, Goucher, St. John's, Washington, and Western Maryland colleges "to afford a research study center where facts tending toward ...

Anderson's Brigade

Ruggles' Division - Bragg's Corps

C. S.

Anderson's (2d) Brigade,

20th La., 9th Tex., 1st Fla. Batt'n., Conf. Gds. Resp. Batt'n., 17th LA.,

Ruggles' (1st) Div., Bragg's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

This brigade was engaged here about 11 a.m. April 6, 1862.

Marker can be reached ...

The Rutgers Bridge

Bicentennial 1976

First wooden bridge built in 1790 – Anthony Rutgers of the Rutgers family for which Rutgers University is named. Operated as a toll bridge until destroyed by a great flood 1841. His widow sold charter to widow of Nicholas ...

Prince Frederick Library “Firsts”

The west wing of this library was built in 1903 on Main Street as the County’s first bank. In 1913, it was replaced, moved and became the County’s first library; 1916 County’s first Boy Scoot Troop met there; 1921 it ...

Dobbs Ferry Memorial Park

This Park Is Dedicated

To The Men And Women Of

Dobbs Ferry Who Served

Their Country In The

Armed Forces In Tmes

Of National Emergency

Mayor & Trustees 1959

Marker is on Palisade Street near Station Plaza, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle Creek Cypress Swamp

A Bald Cypress Reserve and amphibian sanctuary. One of the last remaining stands of Bald Cypress in Maryland, and the most northerly growth in the Country. Registered as a National Landmark, 1965.

Marker is on Grays Road 0.1 miles south of ...

Batchellerville Presbyterian Church

Batchellerville

Presbyterian Church

Erected 1867, Moved To

Present Site 1930 To Escape

Rising Waters Of

Sacandaga Reservoir.

Marker is on South Shore Road near Degolia Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org