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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19CF_discover-dorchester_Cambridge-MD.html
Boarded by two rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay, Dorchester County is graced with expansive marshes, fertile farmland, and scented pine forests. Here on the south shore of the Choptank River, the county seat of Cambridge boasts the only de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19C8_world-war-i-memorial_Cambridge-MD.html
Dedicated to the memory of those men of Dorchester County who made the supreme sacrifice in the World War.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM87D_choptank-river-bridge_Cambridge-MD.html
The Choptank River BridgePrior to the Governor Emerson C. Harrington Bridge which was built over the Great Choptank River in 1935 (the Chesapeake Bay Bridge at Kent Island did open until 1947) ferries were used to cross the river. President Frankl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM591_a-landscape-and-lifestyle-defined-by-water_Cambridge-MD.html
A Landscape and Lifestyle Defined by WaterDorchester County consists of 688 square miles of which approximately 1/3 is water. The extensive waterways and marshland have played a significant role in the development of the county. Only 20 miles of i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM590_choptank-rivers-natural-history_Cambridge-MD.html
The Chesapeake Bay was once the extended valley of the Susquehanna River, which flowed directly into the ocean near the mouth of the bay. The Bay and all its tributaries were once non-tidal freshwater rivers flowing through valleys in the last ice…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM58L_marylands-eastern-shore_Cambridge-MD.html
Although isolated from Maryland's largest population centers, the Eastern Shore was important to the state's role in the Civil War and exemplified the citizens' divided loyalties.
In the years before the war, enslaved African-Americans here beg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23B_spocott-windmill_Cambridge-MD.html
This windmill is typical of the grist post mills used in the 18th and 19th centuries for grinding grain. Such a windmill, built here about 1850 by John A.L. Radcliffe, was blown down in the Blizzard of 1888. In 1972 it was reconstructed, using the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM238_garys-creek-indian-path_Cambridge-MD.html
Gary's Creek was named for Stephen Gary (d. 1686), high sheriff and one of the judges of Dorchester County for whom "Spocott" was surveyed on this creek December 27, 1662. This road about 1663 was the Indian Path from the Indian towns on Choptank …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22I_world-war-ii_Cambridge-MD.html
In grateful memory of our veterans of World War II. Peace to the mighty dead, 1941-1945.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22G_thomas-holliday-hicks_Cambridge-MD.html
In this cemetery is the grave of Thomas Holliday Hicks, Governor of Maryland 1858-1862 and United States Senator from Maryland 1862-1865. At the beginning of the Civil War during his tenure as governor, the position of Maryland was more important …