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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQF6_la-plata-elementary-school_La-Plata-MD.html
Destroyed by a tornado on November 9, 1926. Thirteen pupils and four townspeople lost their lives and approximately thirty-five were injured. The school stood 433 feet northwest of this site on a rise in a residential area near the junction of Wic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOMD_old-durham-church-episcopal-1692_La-Plata-MD.html
11.8 miles West near Ironsides, MD. Oldest church in Charles County. Served by thirty rectors through 257 years. Present building erected 1732. Visited by George Washington 1771. Restored by Governor Smallwood 1791.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM42F_chandlers-hope_La-Plata-MD.html
— 2 miles →Job Chandler, first Charles County settler, built the oldest part of this house, 1639-1650, aided by the Potopaco Indians. Later it was the birthplace of Archbishop Leonard Neale, one of six brothers, all Catholic priests, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM428_surgeon-general-revolutionary-army_La-Plata-MD.html
Dr. James Craik, friend and family physician of Gen Washington, built this place, La Grange, about 1765 and lived here until his removal to Alexandria, VA., 1783.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3O5_the-monastery_La-Plata-MD.html
First Carmel in U.S. Founded October 15, 1790, by four Carmelites from Belgium three of them natives of Maryland. Nuns moved to Baltimore Sept. 13, 1831. The restorers of Mt. Carmel in Md Recoverd site March 27, 1935. Restored buildings 1937.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3GF_myrtle-grove-game-refuge_La-Plata-MD.html
800 acres, purchased May 25, 1929, from Walter J. Mitchell, Attorney for Mortgagee; from Hunter's License Fund, for the purpose of propagating game.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L_christ-church-episcopal_La-Plata-MD.html
Parish church of Port Tobacco Parish, one of the 30 Church of England parishes established, 1692, by act of the provincial assembly, supported by a yearly poll tax of 40 pounds of tobacco. In 1904 the edifice was moved stone by stone from Port Tob…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5_thomas-stone_La-Plata-MD.html
Born 1744-Died 1787. Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Member of Congress 1775-1784. One time its presiding officer. He lies buried at his home "Haber de Venture" one mile south.