Retreat into Maryland

"Asleep and at the same time walking"

Gettysburg Campaign

It was a miserable night, and an even more miserable journey. As 3 a.m. neared on July 5, 1863, the van of the Confederate retreat from Gettysburg arrived here at Leitersburg. The men ...

Western Maryland Railway

The Connellsville Extension from Cumberland

Financier George Gould purchased the Western Maryland as part of a transcontinental railroad scheme that would stretch from Baltimore to San Francisco. Gould extended the WM west to Cumberland, but went bankrupt, and his grand dream ...

Maryland Regiment Burial Site

Revolutionary War Heritage Trail

The vicinity of 3rd Avenue and 9th Street is the presumed location of the burial site of the more than 250 soldiers of the Colonel Smallwood Regiment from Maryland. Nearby, in the swamps of Gowanus, during the ...

Maryland Heroes

Here lie buried 256

Maryland soldiers

who fell in the

Battle of Brooklyn

August 27, 1776.

Marker is on 9th Street near 3rd Avenue, on the right when traveling west.

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"The University of Maryland Is Deeply Rooted in History"

City of College Park

From its pre-Civil War roots as the state’s first agricultural college and one of America’s original land grant institutions, the University of Maryland has emerged as a public research university of national stature, highly regarded for its ...

St. Ignatius Church, Oxon Hill, Maryland

Founded in 1849 as a mission church under pastor Fr. Joseph M. Finotti, S.J. it remained a mission church until 1948, when Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle declared it a parish with Fr. Patrick J. Begley as the first resident pastor.

In the ...

The Maryland Campaign of 1862

"...we are driven to protect our own country by transferring the seat of war to that of an enemy who pursues us with a relentless and apparently aimless hostility."

President Jefferson Davis

September 7, 1862

"The present seems to be the most propitious ...

Grant County / State of Maryland

Grant County. Formed in 1866 from Hardy, Named for General Grant, later President. At the northwestern corner is the Fairfax Stone, which established the limits of the lands of Lord Fairfax. The county has many mountain peaks and beautiful scenery.

State ...

Baltimore-Southern Maryland Trunk Line

Baltimore-Southern Maryland Trunk Line

Robert Crain Highway

At this point construction was started 1922.

Marker is at the intersection of Old Crain Highway and Main Street (Maryland Route 725), in the median on Old Crain Highway.

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Confederates Invade Maryland

7:00 a.m, July 9, 1864

Confederate troops under Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early streamed through the gaps of South Mountain and the Catoctins and headed south past Frederick. Bound for Washington, D.C., they were stopped here at the Best family farm ...