The “Mannour of Ratcliffe”

800 acres patented January 17, 1659 to Robert Morris of London, mariner, “together with a Court Baron and all things thereunto belonging by the laws and customs of England.”

One of the earliest grants on the Eastern Shore.

Marker is at the ...

Site of “The Rest”

“The Rest” was the home of Admiral Franklin Buchanan, 1800–1874, first Superintendent of the Naval Academy, 1845, Commander of the Washington Navy Yard, 1861, Commander of the Confederate iron-clads Virginia, 1862, and Tennessee, 1864, and senior officer in the Confederate ...

Grave of General Perry Benson

(1757–1827) A leader in his home community and State. In the Revolutionary War he served as a captain, and was wounded twice. In the War of 1812, he commanded the militia in Talbot, Caroline and Dorchester Counties.

Marker is on ...

Fancy Farm / Centennial Picnic, Aug. 2, 1980

(obverse)

Fancy Farm

The town which grew up around St. Jerome's Church was named ca.1845 for farm of John Peebles. Samuel Willett and Elizabeth Hobbs, from St. Rose's, Washington Co., were first permanent Catholic settlers in 1829. First church was built 1835-36 ...

55th Illinois Infantry

Stuart's Brigade - Sherman's Division

U. S.

55th Illinois Infantry,

Stuart's (2d) Brig., Sherman's (5th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment was engaged here from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. April 6, 1862 and then fell back 250 yards.

Marker is on Hamburg-Savannah Road 0.3 ...

Second Defense of St. Michaels

Here, August 26, 1813, General Perry Benson, with 600 militia, most of them from Talbot County, halted a British force of 1,800. The Easton artillery manned the road, the 4th and 26th infantry the woods, and the 9th cavalry the ...

Water for the Garrison

The spring-fed stream, reconstructed here, supplied the garrison with water for drinking and washing. Extending out from the fort was an elevated latrine called a "necessary." It ran into a short channel that fed downstream to the fort's garden.

During the ...

Two Successful Raids

CSA Gen. N. B. Forrest with main body of cavalry passed this way before and after destructive raid on Paducah, March 25, 1864. Returning, Kentucky regiments, camping near here, given leave to seek food, horses, get recruits, visit families. Not ...

32nd Illinois Infantry

Burial Place

Burial Place

32d Illinois Infantry

26 Bodies Removed

to

Nat'l Cemetery.

Marker can be reached from Hamburg-Savannah Road ¼ mile north of Hamburg-Purdy Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Confederate Soldiers

Honey Springs

"Lord God of Hosts be with us yet lest we forget, lest we forget"

This commemorative marker is respectfully dedicated to honor the brave soldiers of the Confederate States of America who gallantly fought and died here on July 17, ...