Whitehaven
Chartered by Charles Calvert, 3rd Lord Baltimore, c. 1685. Town Incorporated c. 1702.
Ferry operated here as early as 1692. Settlers were led by Col. George Gale of Whitehaven in the North of England. His first wife, Mildred Warner Washington who by previous marriage was George Washington's grandmother, lived nearby before her death in 1701. "Whitehaven Company" of Somerset County Militia fought with the Maryland Line in Revolutionary War.
Marker is at the intersection of Church Street and Whitehaven Road (Maryland Route 352), on the right when traveling south on Church Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
