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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EY_revolutionary-cannon_Chestertown-MD.html
Presented to The Historical Society of Kent County, Inc., in memory of Morris Keene Barroll 1893-1962.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EX_from-this-point_Chestertown-MD.html
From this point on May 23, 1774, a group of Chestertown citizens, undisguised and in broad daylight boarded the brigantine Geddes and threw its cargo of tea into the Chester River.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EV_chestertown-maryland_Chestertown-MD.html
County seat of Kent County. Established in 1706. Situated on the most traveled highway between south and north during the revolutionary period. George Washington made eight known visits here between 1756 and 1793. Rich in Colonial History.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EU_william-beck-nicholson_Chestertown-MD.html
"Swish"Philadelphia A.L., 1936Chicago N.L., 1939-1948Philadelphia N.L., 1948-1953Born Chestertown, Kent County, Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1914. Graduate of Washington College 1936. Feared and respected outfielder with fine arm who played the nati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ES_george-washington_Chestertown-MD.html
Original benefactor 1782.Member, Visitors and Governors, 1784-1789.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EQ_washington-college_Chestertown-MD.html
George Washington gave to its founding, granted use of his name and served on the Board of Visitors and Governors. He attended public exercises here, 1784, and received degree of Doctor of Laws in 1789.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EP_marylands-first-women-voters_Still-Pond-MD.html
In the village of Still Pond, twelve years before the 19th Amendment established women's suffrage, Mary Jane Clark Howard, Anne Baker Maxwell and Lillie Deringer Kelley cast their ballots in the municipal election of 1908. That year, an act for in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EO_crews-landing_Betterton-MD.html
In 1715 Edward Crew leased Fish Hall (Fishall Pattent 1665) for 11 years at the yearly rate of one ear of corn. Crew purchased 60 of the original 225 acres for 3000 lbs. of tobacco in 1726 and the remaining 165 acres in 1728. Fish Hall later becam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EM_george-vickers_Chestertown-MD.html
George Vickers was born in Chestertown in 1801. He opposed secession in 1861. Assisted Governor Hicks to raise an Eastern Shore Regiment and attained the rank of Major General of Militia. In the trial of President Johnson, Senator Vickers voted fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EI_colonel-isaac-perkins_Chestertown-MD.html
Son of Thomas Perkins, who built brick house near here in 1720. The Colonel was one of the commissioners appointed by Maryland Council of safety to raise supplies for Washington's Army. Much of the flour provided from the Eastern Shore was ground …