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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17O7_turners-creek_Kennedyville-MD.html
From the headwaters near the Route 301 Bridge to the river's mouth between Grove Point and Howell Point, the Sassafras River Water Trail winds past forested shorelines, bucolic farms, and high sandy cliffs for 18 miles before reaching its confluen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16P4_tercentenary-celebration_Chestertown-MD.html
In Honor ofJames Alfred PearceBorn 1840 — Died 1920Distinguished Citizen - Eminent JuristChristian GentlemanChief Judge of Second Judicial CircuitMember Court of Appeals of Maryland 1897 - 1912Erected August 1, 1942 by the Eastern Shore Soci…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16P2_african-american-schoolhouse_Worton-MD.html
Worton Point 'Colored' Public School #2, District Number 3; a one-room schoolhouse built August 1890. This structure was documented by the University of Delaware Center for Historic and Architectural Design in June 2003. Prior to the 1930's county…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16OG_civil-war-monument_Chestertown-MD.html
Erected by James A. Pearce June 1917 in commemoration of the patriotism and valor of a once divided but now reunited county. To the soldiers of Kent in the Confederate Army 1861-1865
Captain William I. Rasin; Macall M. Rasin; George T. Hollyday…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16OC_a-county-seat_Chestertown-MD.html
Establishing a county government is the first step for people building a stable community and a strong trade economy.
The first Kent County Courthouse was located at New Yarmouth, a 17th-century settlement abandoned when county lines were chan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16MU_baltimore-regional-trail_Chestertown-MD.html
War on the Chesapeake Bay. During the Civil War, Baltimore and its environs exemplified the divided loyalties of Maryland's residents. The city had commercial ties to the South as well as the North, and its secessionist sympathies erupted in viole…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16H9_chestertown-first-population-center-of-the-united-states_Chestertown-MD.html
1790Chestertown, First Population Center of United States.
"The point at which a United States map would balance if weights representing each resident were placed on it."
Courtesy Kent County Chamber of Commerce
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16GM_battle-of-caulks-field_Chestertown-MD.html
Kent County Militia under Lt. Col. Philip A. Reed marched from Belle Air (Fairlee) to meet British Forces here on August 31, 1814. The British with 15 killed, were repulsed and their commander, Sir Peter Parker, mortally wounded. American losses w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16GJ_american-victory_Chestertown-MD.html
Kent County braced for the return of the British in August 1814. Enemy raiders has destroyed nearby Georgetown the previous year while terrorizing Maryland's Eastern Shore. Now they were back in an attempt to divert attention from their main opera…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16CJ_daring-to-resist_Galena-MD.html
From opposite sides of the Sassafras River local militia fired at British raiders advancing toward Fredericktown and Georgetown May 5-6 , 1813. The militia fought only briefly before retreating, but the towns paid dearly. The British reduced much …