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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DXM_mallows-bay_Nanjemoy-MD.html
Mallows Bay. Wildlife Refuge from world war one Shipwrecks. . Nearly 90 wooden skeletons of World War I cargo ships, discarded by the U.S. Shipping Board, sold for salvage, and then burned to their waterlines now host an amazing array of fishes, …
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Efton Hills. . Birthplace of Admiral Raphael Semmes C.S.N. Appointed a midshipman U.S.N., 1826. He served in the Mexican War with distinction. Joining the Confederate Navy, 1861. He commanded the noted Confederate raider the "Alabama."
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DX3_bald-eagle_Nanjemoy-MD.html
Bald Eagle. . . Following a dramatic decline caused by pesticides, our national bird, the bald eagle, has made a tremendous return in the region. In fact, Charles County has the second largest population of nesting eagle pairs in the State of Ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DX2_friendship-house-one-of-charles-countys-oldest_Nanjemoy-MD.html
Friendship House...one of Charles County's Oldest. . . Friendship House was built in the mid 1700s on a site overlooking Nanjemoy Creek in western Charles County by a member of the Dent family. The "Friendship" Dents were actually involved in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ARG_durham-parish_Nanjemoy-MD.html
One of the original thirty parishes established by an act of the General Assembly of Maryland on June the 2nd 1692. A log church was first erected on this site as reported by the vestry to the Governor in 1694. Existing church was constructed in 1…
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←Two miles southwest Washington owned 600 acres of land bought in 1775 and retained until his death. In 1786 he visited this property accompanied by Gen. Smallwood.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3O7_general-daniel-e-sickles-u-s-a_Nanjemoy-MD.html
Commander of the "Excelsior Brigade", New York Volunteers, maintained headquarters here October 1861 to March 1862.