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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0_colonel-william-norris_Reisterstown-MD.html
Chief of the Confederate States Army Signal Corps and Secret Service Bureau, 1862-1865. Appointed Commissioner of Prisoner Exchange with rank of Colonel in April 1865. The Norris Home, "Brookland," stood 2½ miles south of this spot. His grave is …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOZ_oldest-high-school-in-baltimore-county_Reisterstown-MD.html
Franklin Academy founded January 10, 1820 by an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland. On January 25, 1849 became a public school. Was Reisterstown High School from 1874-1896. Became Franklin High School in 1897.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOU_st-pauls-lutheran-church-lca_Upperco-MD.html
Believed to be the oldest existing Lutheran Congregation in Baltimore County. It was begun as a Union Church in the early 1700's. The reformed congregation worshiping in the same building. The first recorded communion was in 1794. The first house …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOT_gorsuch-tavern_Sparks-Glencoe-MD.html
At "19 mile stone" on York Road built in 1810 by Captain Joshua Gorsuch, a shipbuilder. The tavern was the meeting place of the Baltimore Countians who went to Pennsylvania to reclaim their slaves, thus bringing on the Christiana Riot of 1851.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOR_st-jamess_Monkton-MD.html
Established 1750 as a Chapel of Ease in the Parish of St. John's of Joppa. In a brick chapel 60 x 30 feet, now the transept, was finished on this site "in the fork of the Gunpowder River" at the cost of 790 pounds. In 1770 by Act of the Maryland A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOQ_my-ladys-manor_Monkton-MD.html
"Lord Baltemore's Guift" Deeded 1713
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOP_quinn_Baldwin-MD.html
500 acre grant in 1704 to Thomas MacNemara. Later called "Sweet Air." Charles and Daniel Carroll, MacNemara's kinsmen, acquired the property and sold it in 1751 to Roger Boyce, who built the present house. It was purchased in 1785 for Henry Hill C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLD_gunpowder-manor_Baldwin-MD.html
In this valley 7031 acres laid out, 1683, for Charles, Third Lord Baltimore. Opened to settlers, 1721 by Charles, Fifth Lord Baltimore. Frederick, Sixth Lord Baltimore, ordered manor sold, 1766. Land remaining 1782 seized and sold as confiscated B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLC_the-george-ellicott-house_Ellicott-City-MD.html
This house was built in 1789 by George Ellicott, a Quaker, who was a miller, surveyor, merchant and astronomer. He was friend and advisor to America's first black man of science, Benjamin Banneker, who visited here. He also entertained Chief Littl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLB_st-john-the-evangelist-catholic-church_Hydes-MD.html
First Roman Catholic Church in (present) Baltimore County founded in 1822. One and one half miles southeast of Sweet Air, one half mile northeast of Manor Road. Building destroyed by fire February 25, 1855. Parish relocated to present site. First …