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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HRF_long-wharf-the-river_Cambridge-MD.html
As a deep-water tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, the Choptank River was a commercial artery of the Eastern Shore since colonial times. Cargoes of timber, tobacco, and farm harvests were hoisted by dockworkers to waiting ships.
During the early …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DXB_christ-p-e-church_Cambridge-MD.html
The original church erected year 1693 was destroyed and restored year 1794 and again rebuilt in year 1863. The wall was erected year 1762. The grounds contain graves of Revolutionary and other war heroes. Also of men famous in state and country.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DX9_john-f-kennedy_Cambridge-MD.html
Dedicated to the memory of John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States who on this spot May 14, 1960, addressed the people of Dorchester County."Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country."
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19CH_enjoy-our-park_Cambridge-MD.html
Take a stroll along our one mile waterfront trail. This boardwalk stretches from the Franklin Street boat ramp, near Governor's Hall, to the end of the Choptank River fishing pier.
A wide variety of native plants flourish all around the Visito…
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/HM19C7_the-nanticoke-historic-preservation-alliance_Vienna-MD.html
The Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance Inc. is a non-profit 501(c) 3, all volunteer organization that was formed in December of 2005 to purchase, study and restore the brick house at the Handsell plantation site and make it available for pub…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19BW_handsell_Vienna-MD.html
A grand plantation home is destroyed and rebuilt.
Early History1768-The Indian Reservation at Chicone was dissolved by the Maryland Colony. 484 acres of HANDSELL went to Ann Billings and her husband, Henry Steele. According to oral history the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19BO_the-native-people-of-the-chicacone-village-the-nanticokes_Vienna-MD.html
Pre-History-For at least 2,500 years prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Eastern Woodland Indians inhabited a wide area in the eastern part of the United States including the vastly wooded area of the Delmarva Peninsula. This region is noted fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19BI_the-african-american-story-in-the-indian-town_Vienna-MD.html
"When I am homesick, I just call up rene in my dreams and I'am right back home in the Indian Town." Gloria Robinson Walter.
It is clear that from the early days on both white and black families lived in the Indiantown as a plantation community…