One mile from here lived Gen. Wm. Smallwood, commander of the Maryland troops which saved Washington’s Army at Long Island. Governor of Maryland from 1785 to 1788. Washington visited here in 1786.

Marker is at the intersection of Chicamuxen Road (Maryland Route 224) and Sweden Point Road, on the right when traveling south on Chicamuxen Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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