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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/HMQW4_cliffs-schoolhouse_Chestertown-MD.html
The last remaining one-room schoolhouse in Kent County. Erected in 1878 to serve a watermen's and farming community and was so used continuously until 1939. One teacher taught seven grades and as many as 46 students.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCSI_tolchester-beach-amusement-park_Chestertown-MD.html
Opened on this site in 1877 by the Tolchester Steamboat Company, in an era when the steamboat was a primary mode of social and commercial transportation in the Tidewater region, and in response to the rising popularity of resorts and amusement par…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3M8_bordley-corner_Chestertown-MD.html
Building built in 1883 by Thomas S. Bordley as a two-story men's haberdashery. Gutted by fire in 1910. Rebuilt in 1911. Owned and operated as a men's store by Carl and Ruth Bordley 1922-1950. Now rented by the Bordley family.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM379_white-black-blue-gray_Chestertown-MD.html
In June 1917, Judge James A. Pearce commemorated the Civil War soldiers of Kent County by erecting a monument to honor the patriotism and valor of a once divided, but now reunited country. The rough-cut and polished granite monument behind you dis…