Execution of Summers and Koontz

On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended, Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I. Newton Koontz, and two other armed veterans of Co. D, 7th Virginia Cavalry, en route to obtain their paroles, robbed six Federal cavalrymen of their ...

Otfrid Hans Freiherr von Meusebach

Born at Dillenburg, Nassau, Germany

May 26, 1812.

Commissioner-General of the Society for

the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas

who became a citizen of the Republic of Texas

under the name of John O. Meusebach.

Founder of Fredericksburg on May 8, 1846.

On March 1-2, 1847, ...

St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church

On July 9, 1793, at 3:00 P.M. there arrived in the port of Baltimore at Fells Point a ship, The Guineaman, carrying blacks, slave and free, from Santo Domingo. They were French speaking and Catholic. They formed a Eucharistic community ...

Birthplace of Gen. Wm. S. Rosecrans

Born Sept. 6, 1819

Died March 11, 1898

Marker is on Rosecrans Road (Local Highway 69) 0.4 miles east of County Road 33, on the right when traveling east.

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First Baptist Church

First Baptist Church, the oldest Black Baptist church in Maryland, was founded amidst turmoil in 1836, five years after Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia. Alarmed at the Rebellion, Maryland and other slave states passed laws restricting the movement of free ...

St. Francis Xavier Church

Dedicated on February 21, 1864, St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church was the first black parish in the U.S. The church originated in the 1790s due to the efforts of the Sulpician Fathers and the Oblate Sisters of Providence to provide ...

Sisters of Charity

(side one)

The first Sisters of Charity arrived in New Mexico Territory in 1865 from Cincinnati at the request of Bishop Lamy with the mission of serving all people regardless of race, religion or ability to pay. Hundreds of sisters followed. ...

Freer Civil War Memorial

Erected by

Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Freer

to the memory of

Our Dead Soldiers

Marker is at the intersection of 2nd Street and Church Street, on the right when traveling west on 2nd Street.

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Battle of Dingle's Mill

(Front text)

Here on Apr. 9, 1865, the day of Gen. Lee's surrender, was fought one of the last battles of the War between the States. 158 Confederates rallied by Col. Geo. W. Lee stopped, for several hours, the advance ...

Frederick Douglass

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are those who want crops without plowing up the ground - they want rain without thunder and lightning." - Frederick Douglass

Born in February, 1818, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Frederick ...