Fashionable 16th Street

Village in the City

Today's 16th Street from the White House to Silver Spring, Maryland is one of the city's key gateways. But through the 1890s it jogged left where Mt. Pleasant Street runs today and then dead-ended at the ...

Fairfield Sons Memorial

In Grateful Loving Memory

Of All

Fairfield Sons

Who Have Laid Down Their Lives

For Our Country

World War I

World War II

Korea

Vietnam

Dedicated Nov. 11, 1988

Southport, Conn.

Marker is at the intersection of Pequot Avenue and Old Post Road, on the left when traveling north on ...

Drinking Water for the Public

Demands for cleaner drinking water in Baltimore City and County compelled Catonsville banker and philanthropist Victor G. Bloede to organize and Baltimore County Water & Electric Company in 1909.

In 1910, Bloede's company purchased the abandoned Avalon Iron & Nail ...

Forging Freedom and Nails

Dorsey's Forge (1761-1815):

"At that time there were two Negroes belonging to Edward H. Dorsey, a Negro man called Prince, who was a forgeman, and a Negro man called Sam who was a striker in a Blacksmith shop." - Maryland ...

Drewry's Bluff

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Visiting Richmond National Battlefield Park

The concentration of Civil War resources found in the Richmond area is unparalleled. The National Park Service manages 13 sites, giving visitors an opportunity to examine the battlefield landscapes, to hear the stories of the ...

Harrison-Guerry-Brannon-Crawford Family Cemetery

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Approximately 200 yards SW is an old family graveyard where lie buried many distinguished Georgians. Capt. James Harrison, one of the earlier settlers of this area, rests here. His home, begun 1837, was the first frame house in this area ...

Fort Wead

C.H.S.

Civil War Sites

S.U.V.

Army of the James

Marker is at the intersection of Greyledge Boulevard and Greyledge Court, on the left when traveling west on Greyledge Boulevard.

Courtesy hmdb.org

“Get Down You Fool”

Battleground to Community

Hearing those words, President Abraham Lincoln ducked down from the Fort Stevens parapet during the Civil War battle that stopped the Confederates from taking Washington.

On July 9, 1864, some 15,000 Rebels led by General Jubal A. ...

Mission San Francisco De Los Tejas

First Spanish Mission in East Texas. Established in 1690 by Franciscan friars to convert the Tejas Indians. "Tejas", a Spanish rendition of the Indian word for "friend", was in time adopted as the state name.

The founding party was led ...

Daniel Carroll of Rock Creek

July 22, 1730 - May 7, 1796

Near this spot was the home of Daniel Carroll, member of the Second Continental Congress and of the Federal Constitutional Convention. He was a Representative from Maryland in the first United States Congress and ...