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Drive down picturesque roads past the carefully preserved homes of early settlers and the fields where they grew tobacco. Discover historic churches and villages built on the bounty of the land and the Chesapeake DRIVING OURS Bay. And understand how the land and water still impact The London TownT Tour: Visit Historic London Town and Gardens and the William Brown House, walk the Java History lives today. Trail at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, see the South River Clubhouse, which dates to 1742, and All Hallows D Church, one of Maryland’s earliest churches. Allow a full day. The Muddy Creek Tour: Drive by farms where thoroughbreds are trained for Triple Crown races and enjoy the charm of Galesville, a 350-year-old waterman’s village. Drive down roads so narrow you’ll wonder if your car will fit between the tree trunks (they will) and see the Historic District of Owensville as well as Christ Church, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Allow a full day.

The Herrington Tour: Visit the Shady Side Peninsula with its Captain Avery Museum, see the charter boat fleets (go fishing if you like) on Rockhold Creek and the collection of historic buildings at the Herrington Harbour North “Historic Village” in Deale, pass the “lost town” of Herrington, Tacaro Farm and other historic sites on the longest tour in the Heritage Area. Allow a full day.

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This publication has been financed by grants from Anne Arundel County and the City of Annapolis, and in part with State Funds from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, an instrumentality of the State of Maryland. However, the content and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority.

ust across the broad South River from JAnnapolis… lies a stretch of rolling farmland that is Visit Historic London Town where Experience the life of a 19th century waterman steeped in history and inextricably archaeologists are uncovering the at the Captain Avery Museum in Shady Side; enjoy linked to the Chesapeake Bay. The lost colonial tobacco port and the quiet of Galesville’s long fingers of land between take a tour of an upscale Quaker Burying Ground; broad, navigable waterways Georgian tavern, reconstructed learn about the educational shaped the lives of the first colonial buildings and innovations in its 1920s era inhabitants, the Europeans and woodland gardens. Watermen Rosenwald school for Africans who came later and continue to work the bay from African Americans; then those who live there now. Drive the villages of Galesville, Shady wander past the Victorian down winding, hand-dug roads Side and Deale, where steamboats houses on Main Street to

that have been worn below the level of once brought vacationers from the When the Emma Giles the Heritage Museum. the tree roots and you’ll see landscapes cities and returned with the products of blew her whistle, I can In Southern Anne that look much as they did in Colonial days. farms and packing houses. On a hill above remember, we ran down Arundel County, South Eighteenth century plantation houses that would the crescent of Herring Bay are the remains of (to the river) because she County to those who live made the biggest waves be museums anywhere else are private homes here. Herrington, a town that was created by the Colonial there, reminders of a rich of anything that came Horses bred to race at Churchill Downs, Pimlico legislature as a checkpoint for tobacco exports but into the West River. You history are never far away, and Belmont gallop across fields surrounded by faded away. wanted to make sure you and the present is tied to wooden fences. And weathered tobacco barns seem The tobacco is nearly gone now and the got down there for the the past by the land and to appear around every third curve, testimony to workboats and packing houses have taken a back big waves. water that shaped lives then Jack Smith, Galesville the crop that was the basis of this region’s economy seat to pleasure boats and waterfront restaurants, and still shapes them today. for four centuries. Using the routes and special but local residents are committed to preserving interest codes on this map, you can trace a their legacy. significant part of Southern Anne Arundel County’s history and experience its connection with the lives of people today.

My parents both worked for Woodfield, shuckin’ oysters and that kinda stuff. I never shucked oysters, but I worked by the hour for Woodfield, like packin’ fish and packin’ oysters. Rever Sellman, Galesville

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2 THE OUR SITES HistoricT London Town and Gardens 839 Londontown Road, Edgewater 410-222-1919 • www.historiclondontown.org Historic This 23-acre county park was a bustling tobacco port London Town until the late 18th century. It features the William Brown and Gardens M House, a Visitor Center and museum, reconstructed . a d y R colonial buildings, an active archaeology site and an o n R tow 8-acre woodland garden. o don a n

d o L OPEN: April through December: Wednesday–Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, 12:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. January through March: Wednesday – Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Closed on major holidays all year. ADMISSION: Members-Free; Adults-$10; Seniors (62+)-$9 ; Youth (7-18)-$5. SOUTH RIVER Discounts available (call for details) Hope Edgewater Memorial Historic Churches of South County Chapel Sou (Please call each church for access and services): Cl th R All Hallows Parish ubh iver ous The Brick Chapel at All Hallows Church d e R a oa o d 3604 Solomons Island Road, Edgewater • 410-798-0808 R d n 214 Ce Christ Church la South River ntr s al I A 220 Owensville Road, West River • 410-876-0346 s Club House ve n d n o a ue

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l Galesville Heritage Museum l d a S o u 988 Main Street, Galesville R Nut oad d well R l e e l 410-867-9499 • www.galesvilleheritagesociety.org y c r i R This 2 1/2 story frame house on Main Street, owned by C o 256 a p d the Galesville Heritage Society, houses exhibits of local m a d Burrages End ad w a artifacts as well as pictures and clothing from the earliest Bay Front Ro S Ro 258 n days of Galesville’s centuries of history. to h c r OPEN: April to November, Sundays, 1 to 4 p.m. St. James u h ADMISSION: Donations gratefully accepted. Parish C

F r a Herrington Hartge Nautical Museum n k Harbour li End of Church Lane, Galesville • 410-268-1837 n G North This private museum, on the grounds of the Hartge i b Historic s o Deale Yacht Harbor, traces the history of the Hartge family n Village from piano makers to boat builders with an

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o Anne Arundel County I s w l 410-867-4486 • www.captainaverymuseum.org a n n Tacaro P d One of the earliest commercial watermen on the o R Farm in LEGEND o t Chesapeake Bay lived in this house at the mouth of a R d oad o Fairhaven R a Towns and Village Centers West River in the late 1800s. Later, a Masonic group d Tours 423 from Washington used it as a waterside retreat called National Historic Landmarks London Town Tour Our Place. Now, the Shady Side Rural Heritage Society National Register Properties Muddy Creek Tour operates it as a museum with exhibits that include Herrington Tour period furniture, historic boats and models and Other Cultural Resources collections of oral histories of the lives of local families. and Historic Sites OPEN: April to November, Sundays, 1 to 4 p.m. F a ADMISSION: Donations gratefully accepted. i rh Friendship a v = Roots & Tides Byway e n Deale Area Historical Society at Fri R en o ds a Herrington Harbour North Historic Village h d ip R 389 Deale Road, Tracys Landing d. TheTh e “R oo ts & Tid es ” By wa y 410-867-4343 • www.dahs.us www.herringtonharbour.com cconto nt in ues into Calvert County! Marina owners Steuart and Hamilton Chaney have 261 TheTh e ByBy way co nt in ue s so ut h on M D preserved a collection of 19th century Southern 22616 1 iinton to nneighboringei gh bo ri ng CCaal ve rt C ou nt y, Maryland buildings, including an African American vi si ti ng N or th B ea ch , Ch es ap ea ke meeting house, a one-room schoolhouse and a residence. Holly Hill The Deale Area Historical Society offers interpretive Be ach, a nd P lu m Po in t. exhibits and programs in the Nutwell Schoolhouse. Fo r mo re i nf or ma ti on a bo ut t he B yw ay , OPEN: March to October, Sundays, 1 to 4 p.m. vi si t wwwww w. sh a. ma ry la nd .g ov a nd click ADMISSION: Donations gratefully accepted. oonn ““ScSc en ic B yw ay s”