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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CMZ_salubria_Oxon-Hill-MD.html
Panel 1:Welcome to SalubriaThis location, Salubria, was a historic site. It has intact archaeological evidence of Woodland Era Indian encampments from 1300-1600 A.D. The Piscataway-Conoy was one of the tribes that frequently inhabited the region. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM163N_crossing-the-river_Oxon-Hill-MD.html
In this age of technological innovation, the act of crossing a river may be taken for granted. And yet, there is always a magic to bridges: How is the river parted to lay the foundation? What stops the bridge from washing downstream? How are so ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXEY_oxon-cove-park-and-oxon-hill-farm_Oxon-Hill-MD.html
Welcome to Oxon Cove Park. Around here a walk in the park is a walk back in time. Exhibits along the way will help you find the layers of time. The Mount Welby historic house also has exhibits.
Today Oxon Hill Farm is the main feature of Oxon C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXA8_sweet-sorghum_Oxon-Hill-MD.html
This antique machine is a sorghum mill. With a mill like this, a horse, plenty of sorghum stalks, an evaporating pan, and years of experience, you can make sweet sorghum syrup.
In the early 1900s, farm families used sorghum syrup like molasses…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX9A_oxon-cove-the-potomac-and-the-chesapeake_Oxon-Hill-MD.html
The history of Oxon Cove Park is a small part of the larger story of the Potomac River, which is one chapter in the long tale of the Chesapeake Bay. But the three stories overlap in many details and eras.
For thousands of years, the abundance o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX5K_war-comes-to-mount-welby_Oxon-Hill-MD.html
"I should not be surprised if Government persists in their determination to quarrel with England that we should experience all the horrors of civil discord." Letter of Mary Welby De Butts to her brother, Richard Earl Welby, April 2, 1812
In th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX3E_the-debutts-family-comes-to-maryland-mount-welby_Oxon-Hill-MD.html
[Panel 1:] The DeButts Family Comes to Maryland Samuel DeButts was born in Ireland in 1756. He began a career as a doctor in England and there met and married his wife, Mary Welby, in 1785. Samuel's medical practice was difficult, unprofitable, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX0U_the-capture-of-alexandria_Oxon-Hill-MD.html
"It was indeed a day and night of horrors, the fleet ? lay directly before our house." Mary DeButts, writing to her sister Millicent on March 18, 1815.
From this farm, Mary DeButts saw a small fleet on the Potomac River on August 29, 1814. On…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX0R_the-potomac-highway_Oxon-Hill-MD.html
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Potomac River was a highway. Roads were bumpy, narrow, winding routes, littered with stumps and fallen trees. They led from tobacco barns and small villages down to the real thoroughfare - the Potomac. When peo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX0P_rockets-on-the-hill_Oxon-Hill-MD.html
We found three rockets on our hill evidently pointed at our house but fortunately did not reach it" Mary DeButts, writing to her sister Millicent on March 18, 1815
Samuel and Mary DeButts were lucky not to be home when three Congreve rockets l…