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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU0_the-old-court-road_Pikesville-MD.html
Originally an Indian trail, then used by the Rangers from the Garrison Fort to keep back the Indians. Later used as a road to the Court at Joppa Town, the County Seat of Baltimore County from 1712 to 1768 and the rival of Baltimore.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTX_sudbrook-park_Pikesville-MD.html
Early romantic suburb designed in 1889 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., father of landscape architecture in America, on 204 acres of James Howard McHenry's "Sudbrook" estate. Olmsted designed a naturalistic landscape with curvilinear roads intersect…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTW_the-garrison-fort_Pikesville-MD.html
Built about 1695 as headquarters for a troop of mounted rangers to patrol paths from the Patapsco to the Susquehanna as a protection against hostile Indians. It was nine miles from nearest white inhabitants when built.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQX_todds-inheritance_Edgemere-MD.html
Todd's Inheritance is a lasting symbol for Americans land especially Baltimoreans) who stood their ground when attacked by invading forces. Throughout the War of 1812, settlements around the Chesapeake Bay fell to British raiders who had superior …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQU_battle-of-north-point_Dundalk-MD.html
Who Dies for Country, doth not yieldTo death's uncompromising swayHe soars Immortal from the fieldAnd dwells untouched by time's decay ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Wm. M. Marine
This one-acre of the North Point Battlefield was set aside in 1839 to commemorate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQT_whitemarsh_White-Marsh-MD.html
Rochambeau's Troops camped here September 11, 1781 where the baggage train and heavy artillery rejoined them. After the victory at Yorktown the French Troops, in five divisions, camped here again on their way northward, at the end of August 1782.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQS_rolling-road_Catonsville-MD.html
A colonial road built for the purpose of rolling hogsheads of tobacco from the plantations to Elk Ridge Landing for shipment to England.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQP_francis-scott-key-memorial-bridge_Dundalk-MD.html
To the northwest, across the Patapsco, is Fort McHenry, which British Naval Forces bombarded September 13-14, 1814. Detained on a cartel boat, Francis Scott Key waw through a spyglass that the star-spangled banner yet waved in the dawn's early lig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQO_north-point-beachhead_Edgemere-MD.html
At 3 a.m. on September 12, 1814, British began landing troops and supplies here from ships anchored in Old Road Bay. By 6:30 a.m., columns formed on Long Log Lane (now Old North Point Road) when bugles sounded at 7 a.m., 4700 British soldiers, sai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQN_dundalk-maryland_Dundalk-MD.html
Approximately 200 yards northwest of this spot an iron foundry, owned by William McShane, was built in 1894. When asked to give a name to the railroad depot serving his new foundry, he chose "Dundalk" in honor of the birthplace of his father, Henr…