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Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 1 CONTENTS

1 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE

4 INTRODUCTION Festivals, Shopping, Dining, Reunions

6 ENJOY A THRIVING CULTURAL LEGACY

7 STEP BACK IN TIME

8 A PATHWAY TO FREEDOM: The Underground Railroad

9 REGIONAL ATTRACTIONS

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11 Capital Region

17 Central Maryland

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28 Eastern Shore

31 INDEX 31 Destinations 8w 32 Cities and Towns

COVER: Bucktown Village Store, Cambridge, Photograph lalJ^m,,*:,,: ^V-' U« courtesy of Dorchester County Department of Tourism.

GOVERNOR MARYLAND OFFICE OF TOURISM PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH w> Listings with this symbol are a Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide is produced Martin O'Malley World Trade Center, THE STATE OF MARYLAND BY: JF/j]s=- part of the 's and distributed as a free publication by the Maryland Office of 401 East Media Two, LT. GOVERNOR Tourism, a division of the Maryland Department of Business and Baltimore, MD 21202 The Custom Communications 1 National Underground Railroad Anthony G. Brown Economic Development. 410-767-3400,1-877-209-5883 Division of Today Media Network to Freedom program, which is www.visitmaryland.org 1014 W. 36th St. Articles, advertisements and listings are intended as a service to preserving historic sites associated with Baltimore, MD 21211 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR travelers and do not constitute an endorsement by the state of the Underground Railroad and attempting Margot A. Amelia 410-828-0120 • www.mediatwo.com Maryland of any business, organization or attraction. Information to tell a comprehensive story of the people I MARYLAND I MANAGING EDITOR PRESIDENT EDITOR is as correct as possible at press time, but is subject to change. Liz Fitzsimmons Jonathan Witty Blaise Willig and events associated with the struggle Please call ahead to verify information before traveling. The VisitMaryland.org EXECUTIVE EDITOR CHAIRMAN ART DIRECTOR for freedom from enslavement. publisher and editor shall not be liable for damages arising Kat Evans Robert F. Martinelli Randy Clark from errors or omissions. www.nps.gov/ugrr PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT DIRECTOR ADVERTISING Copyright 2012. Reproduction in whole or part of any . Tim Tadder, 2001 Kim Fortuna DIRECTOR (unless otherwise credited) Steve Lassiter A special thank you to the Library of Congress photographs, maps or illustrations without prior written www.tadderphotography.com for historic images. consent by the copyright holders is prohibited.

2 Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland's African-American Heritage /rave,' Guide 3 discover an ENDURING HERITAGE

This guide is your passport to the Maryland African-American experience — the undertakings, accomplishments and sacrifices, past and present, that have shaped a state and influenced a nation. It's the story of a resilient people and their deeply rooted traditions. It's a tale of triumphs, sorrows, joys and hardships as spoken by Frederick Douglass, written by Frances E. W. Harper, played by Eubie Blake and mapped by Benjamin Banneker. Their words and deeds, as well as the actions of countless others, continue to impact all walks of life.

Inside this guide, you will find listings for nearly 200 travel destinations throughout the state that are linked to African-American heritage and culture. The listings are separated by region — from Western Maryland to the Eastern Shore — so you can easily find sites no matter where your travels take you.

As you navigate Maryland — whether following a heritage trail toward historic discoveries, sampling local foods during ethnic celebrations or being entertained at world-renowned cultural venues — enjoy today what generations have built. !

e FESTIVALS SHOP & DINE and expansive malls. Antiques REUNIONS stores are also plentiful. onor the past while elax while shopping and For your dining pleasure, aryland offers h celebrating in the r dining on the water­ the state is home to some m the perfect present! Maryland hosts front, in the countryside or of the best seafood around. location for your next a number of ethnic events African American Festival, a just downtown. Charming But beyond the crabs, oysters reunion, regardless of and celebrations of African- weekend-long mix of music, boutiques, galleries and and rockfish, you will enjoy the size. At our heart is Polish and other ethnic American pride and heritage. food and exhibits, draws collectibles shops give way to international cuisine and soul Baltimore, the second- neighborhoods stand The Kunta Kinte Heritage thousands of visitors every July. name-brand outlet centers food, as well as locally grown largest immigration side-by-side. Throughout Festival, held annually in Other celebrations include produce and sumptuous point-of-entry to the Maryland, you'll find diverse Annapolis each September, Harriet Tubman Weekend in desserts, including the official in the destinations, attractions and features music, food and Cambridge and Juneteenth state dessert, Smith Island late 19th and early 20th accommodations to make dance from the African celebrations that take place Cake. Furthermore, Maryland centuries. African-American, your next get together a diaspora. Baltimore's throughout the state. I has many breweries and more Greek, German, Italian, memorable one. than 50 wineries open for For resources to help plan a reunion, contact local county tourism For a Maryland Calendar of Events, go to www.visitmaryland.org. tours and special events. offices or go to www.visitmaryland.org.

A Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 5 THE USS CON$TELU&flO>$ [> H V ^Baltimore

FREDERICK DOUGLASS-ISAAC MYERS MARITIME PARK Baltimore

E REGINALD F. LEWIS MUSEUM OF MARYLAND ' KRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY gCULTURE THE NATIONAL GREAT BLACKS IN WAX MUSEUM Baltimore ^^^MKIMMi i Baltimore

ENJOY A THRIVING CULTURAL LEGACY STEP BACK IN TIME

ome of the most 8c Culture. Just a short walk and mathematician. Another c Venture into Baltimore I rom the rugged moun­ memorable African- from Baltimore's famous Inner museum — in Maryland's and you'll find museums, tains of Western Mary- American cultural Harbor, the museum has an capital, Annapolis — is named historic churches, a maritime S •L land to the rushing attractions in the country are acclaimed permanent collection for Banneker and fellow Mary- park and other important waters of the Potomac in Maryland, and it all begins that focuses on Maryland's lander Frederick Douglass, a destinations with African- River, across the magnificent with our biggest city, Baltimore. African-American experience. former slave who gained audi­ American ties throughout to the most Here, you'll find museums, The Baltimore National ences with Lincoln history. Docked at the city's charming Eastern Shore parks and other destinations Heritage Area offers walk­ and other political leaders. world-famous towns, you can uncover com­ celebrating the likes of Mother ing tours of the two-mile A recent four-story addition is the USS Constellation, pelling stories of the people Mary Lange and music legends Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage to the Banneker-Douglass which was launched in 1854 and places that helped shape Eubie Blake, Chick Webb Trail, along which "Storyboard" Museum incorporated bricks and once intercepted three life for . The Frederick Douglass Museum and and Cab Calloway. panels speak to the area's jazz from a former African slave ships and freed more Cultural Center is housed in "Twin Begin at an unassuming Oaks." the summer cottage built by View works by contemporary roots and its role in the Civil Methodist Episcopal Church. than 700 people. the son of Frederick Douglass. farmhouse near the Antietam African-American artists at Rights movement. Or enjoy You can also travel back 350 Throughout National Battlefield, where The the waterfront views from years via the African-American city of Annapolis, statues the writer's ancestors, Kunta abolitionist John Brown or the Maryland Historical the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Heritage Society Museum in and memorials honor such Kinte, who arrived there prepared for his ill-fated Society Museum, which Myers Maritime Park while La Plata, or take a trip on the celebrated African Americans aboard a slave ship. The pre-Civil War raid of Harpers also displays rare portraits by learning about the nation's Harriet Tubman Underground as Supreme Court Justice Annapolis area is also home Ferry. From there, move Baltimorean Joshua Johnson. first black-owned shipyard. Railroad Byway, an American Thurgood Marshall, North to historic schoolhouses you closer to Washington, D.C., The National Great Blacks in In Oella, near Ellicott Byway extending alongside Pole explorer Matthew can visit, as well as a house where many sites in Mary­ Wax Museum takes visitors on City, the 142-acre Benjamin the Eastern Shore of the Henson, pioneering medical museum and cultural center land's Capital Region — such a unique journey with lifelike Banneker Historical Park and Chesapeake Bay. doctor Aris T. Allen and with ties to the family as reconstructed slave quar­ exhibits spanning centuries. Museum has nature trails that Learn about more ways to Roots author Alex Haley. of statesman and orator ters at an archaeological park Then visit the Reginald F. surround a visitor center with discover Maryland's African- Near the Haley statue, Frederick Douglass, who in Mitchellville — remain as Lewis Museum of Maryland exhibits recounting Banneker's American culture and heritage situated on the historic City was born in Trappe on testaments to the early sacri­ African American History life as a scientist, astronomer at www.visitmaryland.org. Dock, is a tribute to one of Maryland's Eastern Shore. fices of African Americans.

6 Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 7 f SX XI A PATHWAY TO FREEDOM: western THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD maryland long a secret network Chesapeake Bay at places West of the Bay is Towson's a of routes and sanctuar­ such as Cambridge's Harriet Hampton Mansion, once the ies known as the Under­ Tubman Museum and largest house in the country. ground Railroad, Maryland Educational Center. Visitors More than 340 enslaved • Allegany occupied a pivotal place as can also see places where people labored here, with County CALL; the last "station" for enslaved she labored and prayed, several attempting escape. In people seeking freedom in the the store site where she Montgomery County, visit the • Garrett northern states. demonstrated her first public Sandy Spring Slave Museum, County (GAR) Born into slavery, Harriet act of defiance, and a marker which features a slavery-era log • Washington Tubman completed many noting her approximate cabin, and historic Rockville's County (WAS) daring journeys in the mid- childhood homesite. Beall-Dawson House, whose 1800s after escaping from an The Harriet Tubman large enslaved population Eastern Shore plantation to Underground Railroad Byway became free people in 1864. The letter-number code listed become the Railroad's most — an officially designated Farther south, the beside each destination refers to the famous "conductor." She is All-American Road — spans Hollywood-based Sotterley fold-out map inside the back cover. ANTIETAM NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD • Sharpsburg said to have made 13 trips and much of the Eastern Shore, Plantation includes a rare led about 70 slaves to freedom with stops dedicated to Tubman, slave cabin and outbuildings fellow conductors such as along the . during a 10-year span. Big Pool WASA-10 I Shawnee Oldfield Grantsville GARA-3 Today, Tubman's legacy is Green and others who joined To the north in Thurmont's '"Village Fort Frederick State Park kept alive up and down the the struggle for freedom. Cunningham Falls State Park, 13 Canal St, 21502 Negro Mountain 1 1000 Ft Frederick Rd, 21711 301-722-8226 Alternate U.S. 40 and free and enslaved Africans 301-842-2155, 1-800-830-3974 Zehner Rd, 21536 labored at the Catoctin 1-888-432-CAMP (2267) Shawnee Indians once A free and very wealthy African lived in the hills surround­ 301-895-5759 Furnace to produce iron American named Nathan ing Oldtown, near the Believed to have been for Revolutionary War and Williams once owned the land confluence of the North named after Nemesis, Civil War weapons. These that now houses this park. Witness and South branches of the an enslaved black military re-enactments and daily . From about frontiersman, killed and many more Maryland living-history programming at 1711-1727, Shawnees living fighting Indians with sites are part of the National the fort that once protected Maryland's colonial frontier. at King Opessa's Town and Maryland frontiersmen. Underground Railroad www.dnr.state.md.us/ neighboring sites offered Accessible by backcountry Network to Freedom Program publiclands/western/ refuge to freedom seekers hiking. fortf rederick. htm I who had fled from their — authentic places that www.hmdb.org/marker. lWiWJIJJJHJip.«:,.,HWW!B. and Maryland mas­ asp?marker=5409 have witnessed the drama or Cumberland ALLA-6 ters. Frustrated governors interpret the stories of the of both states sought to Emmanuel Hagerstown WAS A-1 1 negotiate with the Shawnee Underground Railroad and 16 Washington St, 21502 to return the runaways. the fight to end slavery. 301-777-3364 Asbury United Methodist Using the former defense Virginia offered bounties of Church tunnels of Fort Cumberland guns and blankets. Today There was one of two things 155 N Jonathan St, 21740 under the church, Samuel the village site is a forested 301-791-0495 I had a right to, liberty or Denson, with Rev. area located within the Founded in 1818, the oldest . If I could not have Hillhouse Buel, provided Chesapeake and Canal food and aid to Underground African-American church in National Historical Park near HAMPTON NATIONAL J one, I would have the other. Railroad freedom seekers, Hagerstown. HISTORIC SIT*] www.emmanuelparish. Oldtown. www.marylandmemories. Thurmont —Harriet Tubman ang-md.org www.nps.gov/choh org/af rican_american.html

8 Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide * National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 9 Doleman Black Heritage Sharpsburg WAS C-I I Tolson's Chapel Museum 111 E High St, 21782 capital 540 N Locust St, 21740 Antietam Furnace Founded in 1866, 301-797-5019 Harper's Ferry Rd, 21782 Tolson's Chapel was a By appt. Collection of black 301-739-4200 Methodist Church built region history artifacts and books Built in 1768, the furnace on land donated by the in Washington County produced goods for the Craig family. John Tolson depicting the lives of local Revolutionary War, relying was the church's first African Americans; dolls, on the labor of both minister. A Freedman's souvenir buttons, WWII enslaved and free blacks. Bureau school operated memorabilia. On National Register of in the church from 1868 Frederick www.dolemanblack Historic Places, to 1870. The cemetery County (FRE) heritagemuseum.org www.marylandmemories. has burials dating back org/af rican-american.html to the 19th century. Montgomery Miller House www.hallowedground.org/ County (MON) 135 W Washington St, 21740 Antietam National African-American-Heritage/ 301-797-8782 Battlefield Tolson-s-Chapel Prince George's Museum: Apr-Dec: Wed-Sat, Rt 65, Sharpsburgh Pk, County (PRG) 1-4pm. Group tours by appt. 5831 Dunker Church Rd, Williamsport WASB-II Features a Civil War room, 21782 C&O Canal room 301-432-5124 Ferry Hill Place and an extensive local 8:30am-6:30pm summer; South of Sharpsburg, 21782 The letter-number code listed research library devoted 8:30am-5pm winter; closed Served as an Underground beside each destination refers to the to local history and major holidays. Site of the Railroad stop, built in 1812 genealogy. bloodiest one-day battle in fold-out map inside the back cover. by John Blackford. The Wmr&f^^ ?:s.v.vv;., JM| www.washcomdhistorical American history. Many view property included a ferry society.org/miller-house.php this battle as the turning operated by two enslaved point needed for Abraham men, Jupe and Ned. Lincoln to announce his running away. A featured Rose Hill Cemetery Beltsville PRG F-16 ^Northampton Slave Emancipation Proclama­ exhibit "African-American ^Quarters and 600 S Potomac St, 21740 j. Ferry Hill tion. Offers interpretive Slaves at Belair," tells the Archaeological Park 301-739-3630 Plantation Abraham Hall programs, tours and audio­ stories of resistance and 10915 Water Port Ct, 20721 Mon-Fri, 8am-4pm. Burial 205 Potomac St, 21795 7612 Old Muirkirk Rd, 20705 visual programs. flight. Groups of 10 or more site of Hagerstown resident 301-454-1780 301-627-1286 www.nps.gov/anti 301-582-0813 by appt. Donation requested. William O. Wilson, who Built in 1889 for the Benevolent 6am-dark. Rebuilt founda­ Situated along the www.cityofbowie.org/ served in the U.S. Army Sons and Daughters of tions of two former slave Chesapeake and Ohio LeisureActivities/ quarters at Northampton 9th Cavalry and received Kennedy Farm House Abraham, it is the county's Canal and the Potomac Museum/belair_mansion.asp plantation. Interpretive the Medal of Honor for his (John Brown HQ) most outstanding example of River, major thoroughfares signage for self-guided tours service at the 1890 Battle 2406 Chestnut Grove Rd, 21782 a late 19th-century African- for freedom seekers head­ Blacksox Park detailing lives of enslaved of Wounded Knee. Also, a 202-537-8900 American benevolent society "Statue of Hope" marks the ing north. Once a thriving 2200 Mitchelivilie Rd, 20716 and free African-Americans May-Oct tours by appt. Old lodge. It has also served the burial place of more than plantation, it used enslaved 301-262-6200 (1790-1930). farmhouse served as staging Rossville African-American 2,000 Confederate soldiers and free black labor. Records A 70-acre park primarily de­ www.pgparks.com area for John Brown's pre- community as a temporary who died in the Civil War. reveal that captured run­ signed for baseball and soft- Civil War raid on a federal schoolhouse and Methodist www.rosehillcemetery aways were taken to the ball, with interpretive exhibits. Boyds MONE-14 arsenal in Harper's Ferry. Church. The site hosts exhibitions. ofhagerstown.org Hagerstown jail. A $200 The park was once home of www.johnbrown.org www.pgparks.com/places/ bounty was paid for the the Mitchelivilie Tigers and Boyds Negro School House capture of five enslaved eleganthistoric/abraham_ the Washington Blacksox, 19510 White Ground Rd, people. Part of the Chesa­ visitor.html two local African-American 20841 peake and Ohio Canal sandlot baseball teams. The 301-461-4646 CPL. WILLIAM OTHELLO WILSON National Historical Park. Bowie PRG F-77 lot was a popular game site By appt only. The Boyds/ (1867-1928) received a Congressional Medal of Honoi www.nps.gov/choh/ for several other African- Clarksville Historical Society the nation's highest military decoration, for "bravery" History/TowpathTowns/ Belair Mansion American sandlot teams. maintains a restored one-room FerryHill.html 12207 Tulip Grove Dr, 20715 www.cityofbowie.org schoolhouse (1896-1936) after volunteering for a courier mission during the 301-809-3089 complete with furnishings and Sioux Campaign in 1890. The Hagerstown resident For more than 100 years, literature on the school and is the subject of a book entitled Black Valor and is For a Maryland Calendar the Ogle and Tasker families Call 1-877-333-4455 community. The school was living at Belair Mansion the only public school for of Events, go to for travel planning buried at Rose Hill Cemetery. struggled to keep their African Americans in the area. www.visitmaryland.org. enslaved people from assistance. www.boydshistory.org

lO Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide - National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide i i: Brunswick FRE D-M Battlefield, was once part of Roger Brooke Taney a 748-acre plantation known House I think I'm the hrst man to sit on top of the world. Brunswick Railroad as L'Hermitage. Established 121 S Bentz St, 21701 Museum by the Vincendieres, a 301-663-1188 —Matthew Henson 40W Potomac St, 21716 family of French planters Byapptonly. Built in 1799 301-834-7100 from the Caribbean, 50 and contains personal MATTHEW HENSON to 90 African-American items of Supreme Court Thurs-Fri, 10am-2pm; (1866-1955), recognized Sat-Sun, 10am-5pm. indentured persons worked Chief Justice Taney, who is Features an exhibit on this plantation in the 18th remembered for delivering on a plaque outside the and 19th centuries. At least the majority opinion in Dred the contributions of African Americans to the develop­ two of those slaves fled for Scott v. Sandford'm 1857. ment of the B&O Railroad freedom. The Best family Rare outbuildings, slave as "co-discoverer of the in Brunswick. began farming the property quarters and original wine www.brrm.net in the 1830s. One of their cellar. ," was born in slaves escaped in 1850. www.hsfcinfo.org/taney/ the Southern Maiyland www.nps.gov/mono index.html Clinton PRG H-16 town of Nanjemoy. He was J Catoctin Center for Glenn Dale PRG F-16 Poplar Hill on His the great-grand nephew of Lordship's Kindness ''Regional Studies 7606 Woodyard Rd, 20735 7932 Opossumtown Pike, Dorsey Chapel , who had 21702 10704 Brookland Rd, 20769 301-856-0358 been a slave for more than A National Historic Landmark 301-624-2773 240-264-3415 that was originally part of a By appt. Research facility Fri, 11am-3pm. Built in 1900 30 years in Rockville, Md., 7,000-acre land grant from of the history of this region, as a Methodist church, it Charles Calvert, third Lord including African-American served as the social and before fleeing to Canada. and Underground Railroad spiritual center of Brook- Baltimore, to Colonel Henry Orphaned when not yet a teen, Matthew Henson worked on merchant ships in 1703. Programs and tours activities, and the life of land, an African-American describe the site's enslaved freedom seeker J.W.C. farming community. as a cabin boy and learned to read and write while sailing around the world. African Americans and their Pennington. www.pgparks.com/places/ families who remained in the http://catoctincenter. eleganthistoric/dorsey_ As part of an expedition in 1909, he reached the North Pole about area following emancipation. frederick.edu intro.html 45 minutes ahead of his colleague, Admiral Robert E. Peary. The current mansion was built between 1785 and 1787 by National Museum of I Marietta House Colonel Henry's great grand­ Civil War Medicine Museum son, Robert Darnall, replacing 48 E Patrick St, 21701 5626 Bell Station, 20769 an earlier residence 301-695-1864, 301-464-5291 Landover PRG F-16 Laurel PRG E-76 Mitchellville PRGG-17 constructed for his father, 1-800-564-1864 Fri, 11am-3pm; Sat-Sun, Henry Darnall III. Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm; 12N-4pm. Federal-style The Wayne K. Curry St. Mark's Methodist Holy Family Roman www.poplarhillonhlk.com Sun, 11 am-5pm; closed home of Supreme Court Sports and Learning Episcopal Church major holidays. Immersion Justice Duvall, who Complex 607 8th St, 20707 12010 Woodmore Rd, 20721 exhibits illustrate the story owned slaves but often Frederick FRHC-13 8001 Sheriff Rd, 20785 301-776-8885 301-249-2266 of patients, caregivers and leaned towards abolition­ Since 1921, the church has Built in 1890 to serve medical innovations of the ist ideals. The museum 301-583-2300 j Best Farm - been a landmark of Laurel. the local black Catholic Civil War; includes a rare is furnished to interpret Named after Prince L'Hermitage The history of the congre­ community of then-rural collection of Civil War medi­ 19th-century living. George's County's first 4801 Urbana Pike, 21704 gation dates back to 1891 Woodmore and Mitchell­ cal artifacts. Guided tours, www.pgparks.com/places/ African-American County 301-662-3513 when James Hebron and ville. In 1889, the land for educational programs. eleganthistoric/marietta_ Executive, the Wayne K. The farm, now part of two other black Method­ the church was deeded Monocacy National www.CivilWarMed.org intro.html Curry Sports & Learning ists purchased the land Complex is dedicated to to the congregation by for the church. The church Isaac Wood, a local white improving the community's sat across the street from carpenter. Parishioners, fitness and educational JAMES W.C. PENNINGTON (1807-1870), a teacher and author the Laurel Colored School, mostly African-American needs. The facility houses which was constructed in most famous for his 1850 autobiography, The Fugitive Blacksmith, was tenant farmers, built the the M-NCPPC's Black 1884. Together the two structure. Today, the born a slave, but fled from a in Hagerstown in 1827, settled in Con­ History Month exhibition for buildings served many of parish remains active necticut and became famous for his anti-slavery speeches and writings. approximately 10 months. the residents in Laurel's serving the community. www.pgsportsandlearn. black community. Learn more at the Catoctin Center for Regional Studies in Frederick. www.holyfamilywoodmore. com www.stmarkslmd.org com

12 Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 13 North American roadside commu­ Poolesville MONE-13 Rockville MON E-15 ISAAC MYERS (1835-1891), recognized as a MON E-15 nity from emancipation well Bethesda pioneer of the African-American trade into the 20th century. The Warren Historic Site Beall-Dawson House i Josiah Henson dwelling, inhabited until Whites Ferry Rd, 20837 103 W Montgomery Ave, union movement, was hired in 1855 to 301-258-9021 Special Park/ 1976, is now a living-history 20850 Following the Civil War, free supervise one of the largest shipyards Riley Farm museum. 301-762-1492 www.montgomeryparks. blacks and former slaves in Baltimore. A decade later, he helped 11420 Old Georgetown Rd, purchased land and built the Wed-Sun, (self-guided 20852 org/PPSD/CulturaL Warren Methodist Episcopal tours); Fri-Sun (guided establish the Chesapeake Marine Resources_Stewardship/ 301-563-3400 Church, Martinsburg Negro tours on the hour); closed Railway and Dry Dock Company and created the Josiah Henson, whose heritage/oakley _cabin.shtm School and Charity Lodge major holidays. The Beall Colored National Labor Union, for which he was memoir inspired Harriet Hall. These buildings were family was one of the largest Beecher Stowe's novel Oxon Hill PRG G-15 the anchor and center for slave-owning families in elected its first president in 1869. The Frederick Uncle Tom's Cabin, lived religious worship, educa­ Montgomery County. When Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park in Baltimore is and worked here as an i Oxon Cove Park & tional development and social interaction for this Upton Beall died in 1827, he enslaved African American ^"Oxon Hill Farm a national heritage site with galleries containing rural African-American left the plantation to his wife from 1795 to 1830. His 6411 Oxon Hill Rd, 20745 community. These three who later passed it to their images, artistic renderings and historic artifacts. experiences living enslaved 301-839-1176 buildings remain on their daughters. The Beall daugh­ on the Riley property are This site once consisted of original site. ters are recognized for not depicted in his autobiog­ cash-crop plantations where selling any slaves. They later raphy. Henson eventually enslaved people provided Riverdale Park PRGF-16 freed the slaves when the escaped to Canada, via context for the Under­ Sandy most of the labor. A working emancipation was passed in the Underground Railroad, ground Railroad. The Spring MON E-15 farm offers programs and Cherry Hill Cemetery 1864, selling pieces of their where he established a collection includes exhibits on the history of 6821 Ingraham St, 20737 land to their former slaves. fugitive slave settlement 301-627-1286 county antebellum tax lists, Sandy Spring Slave the farm's enslaved labor, www.montgomeryhistory. and became an abolition­ A late 1800s African-American probate records, census Museum & African Art including Shaw, who org ist speaker and writer. The escaped from the farm. family burial ground. Estab­ records, county newspapers Gallery, Inc. lished in 1884 by Josiah site is currently closed while Visitors can enjoy farm with fugitive slave notices, 18524 Brooke Rd, 20860 , it is significant as the j In Their Steps: A undergoing restoration. animals, a hay barn and sales of slaves and other 301-774-4066 only intact African-American Guided Walking Tour daily chore demonstrations. related information. Books, By appt only. The family farm in the area. Graves 29 Courthouse Sq, 20850 www.nps.gov/oxhi and oral museum's campus boasts Olney MON E-15 are marked with slabs of 301-762-0096 local ironstone and yucca histories enhance the four displays: a cross-section Hear about the life of of a slaving clipper ship, a Oakley Cabin African St. Paul United Methodist plants. Many African- collections. Josiah Henson, the model slavery-era log cabin, an arts American Museum and Church at Oxon Hill American families — such http://montgomeryhistory. as the Adams, Becketts and for the title character of pavilion and great hall. Park 6634 St Rd, 20745 org Plummers — buried their Uncle Tom's Cabin, who www.sandyspringslave 3610 Brookeville Rd, 20832 301-567-4433 loved ones here from the risked all for freedom and museum.org 301-650-4373 Believed to have been late 1800s to the 1940s. whose autobiography Rossville PRG F-16 Apr-Oct. Log home built in home to one of the www.pgparks.com inspired Harriet Beecher X The Underground the 1820s served as home first African-American Queen's Chapel Stowe. Find out about the Railroad Experience to enslaved and free blacks congregations in Prince Methodist Episcopal 4 Riversdale House young Ann Maria Weems, Trail and tenant farmers. It was George's County. Museum Church Site and who escaped slavery in 16501 Norwood Rd, 20860 the center of an African- www.stpumcmd.org 4811 Riverdale Rd, 20737 Cemetery Rockville by dressing as 301-650-4373 301-864-0420 7410 Old Muirkirk Rd, 20705 a coachman. Learn about This trail commemorates An elegant, early 1800s, two sisters from a promi­ 301-937-7122 Federal-style plantation Montgomery County nent Rockville family who The site of the original house has been restored to residents involved with the JOSIAH ADAMS (R-1884) lived and worked exemplified the differences church, a small log chapel, reflect the lifestyle of the Underground Railroad, and primarily as a gardener at Charles Calvert's Calverts and the story of between slave holders. was purchased by six black celebrates the Quaker heri­ www.peerlessrockville.org men in 1868. The land had plantation, Riversdale, in the mid-igth century. Francis Plummer, an tage and traditions of Sandy enslaved man who brought been previously used as a Spring. Learn how fleeing Between 1871 and 1883, he accumulated 50 acres back his wife, Emily, and J Jane C. Sween cemetery by African Ameri­ slaves eluded capture. This children to live in freedom of his own land, on which his family operated a ^Library cans in the Muirkirk area. two-mile trail has a natural after they escaped from a 142 W Middle Ln, 20850 The original chapel has surface and includes inter­ fruit and vegetable farm. Adams is laid to rest plantation in Eilicott City. been replaced twice and is pretive sign markers keyed They were caught, jailed in 301-340-2825 at Cherry Hill Cemetery, which was established known as an anchor of the Baltimore and could not be Government and family to a map. Find the map at by his will in 1884 and accepted burials through reclaimed by their master. records reveal the Rossville community. the Woodlawn Manor trail- http://archives.umc.org/ the 1940s. www.pgparks.com/places/ patterns of slaveholding in head or on the web site. eleganthistoric/riversdale_ Montgomery County and Directory/ChurchDetails. www.mc-mncppc.org/ events.html establish social and cultural asp?FAC=7986 trails rmaps.shtm

14 Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide ^- National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 15 z I Silver Spring MON F-75 County. Free and enslaved Croom Airport t blacks toiled here to 16000 Croom Airport Rd, I central produce iron for the Revo­ 1 Arrest Site of 20772-8395 lutionary and Civil wars. 301-627-6074 William Chaplin At least one enslaved man Sun, 10am-3pm. The first maryland Georgia Ave & B/a/'r Rd, attempted escape in 1780. 20902 Includes a furnace stack, the African-American-owned 301-650-4373 iron master's manor house and operated airport on Chaplin, an abolitionist from ruins and self-guided trails. the eastern seaboard. Albany, NY, was involved www.dnr.state.md.us/ in the failed escape of 77 publiclands/western/ Darnall's Chance House • Anne Arundel people from Washington, cunninghamfalls.html Museum D.C. Eluding imprisonment 14800 Gov Dr, County (AAR) then, Chaplin was captured Upper 20772 m Baltimore City (BCD on August 8, 1850 during a Marlboro PRG G-17 301-952-8010 shootout with slave catch­ Tues-Thurs, by appt; m Baltimore County (BCG/ ers on Georgia Avenue. The Charlotte Duckett Fri and Sun, 12N-4pm; Log Cabin at the Patuxent • Carroll County (CAR) Both freedom seekers Sat, events by appt only. Rural Life Museum he was transporting were m Harford County (HAR> 16000 Croom Airport Rd, The museum highlights wounded. Northern aboli­ 20772 African-American • Howard County (HOW) tionists raised his bond of 301-627-6074 community and mid- $25,000. An outdoor exhibit It is a rare chestnut log 18th-century town life The letter-number code listed describes these events. tenant farm house from the in Upper Marlboro. www.hmdb.org/marker. 1800s. It was probably built Eight enslaved people beside each destination refers to the asp?marker=3969 by Charles Duckett, a former have been recorded as THE EUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ INSTITUTE AND fold-out map inside the back cover. slave and a landsman in the CULTURE CENTER • Baltimore .... escaping from here. Union Navy during the Civil Thurmont FREA-73 War. It is part of the larger www.pgparks.com/places/ Patuxent Rural Life Museums eleganthistoric/darnalls_ i Catoctin complex, which includes the intro.html Annapolis AAR F-79 Aris T. Allen Statue country on the slave ship Furnace Duvall Tool Museum, a Rt 655E, 21401 Lord Ligonier. It is now the site of a waterfront park, Catoctin Furnace Rd, Rt 806 tobacco museum, a d The Mount Calvert Alex Haley Memorial/ Statue depicts the first Harbormaster's office, Cunningham Falls State Park, blacksmith shop, and a T Historical & Kunta Kinte Plaque African-American doctor 21788 1923 Sears, Roebuck and allowed to admit patients visitor information booth Archaeological Park Sidewalk at head oi City and harbor cruise docks. 301-271-7574 Company simplex house. at Anne Arundel Medical 16801 Mount Calvert Rd, Dock, 21401 www.ci.annapolis.md.us/ Established by the Johnson www.pgparks.com/places/ Center. eleganthistoric/ 20772 The life-size bronze statue visitors, aspx family in 1776, the largest patuxent_intro.html 301-627-1286 of Alex Haley, author JL Banneker-Douglass slaveholders in Frederick Once a tobacco plantation, of the epic Roots, is Discover Annapolis Tours Museum Africans and African situated next to the site 31 Decatur Ave, 21403 84 Franklin St, 21401-2738 Americans lived and of the plaque honoring 410-626-6000 410-216-6180 worked at Mount Calvert his ancestor Kunta Kinte; By appt. One-hour mini­ Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm. bus tour reveals African- CABELL (CAB) CALLOWAY, III (1907-1994) Plantation from the late designed by nationally Official repository of American sites, sculptures, 17th through the early acclaimed African-American grew up in Baltimore and African-American history museums and historic 20th century. By the mid- sculptor Ed Dwight. and culture for the state of homes in Annapolis. frequented many local jazz 1800s, 51 enslaved African www.visit-annapolis.org Maryland. Housed within www.discover-annapolis. Americans worked here. clubs. His band performed the former Mount Moriah com Several enslaved people Annapolis Tours & African Methodist Episcopal regularly at the Cotton Club, fled. An exhibit, "A Watermark Cruises Church, built in 1874. Historic Annapolis and in 1931 he recorded the Confluence of Three PO Box 3350, 21403 www.bannekermuseum. Foundation Cultures," interprets the 410-268-7601 18 Pinkney St, 21401 hit, "Minnie the Moocher." archeology and history Offers various themed 410-267-7619 In 1983, the aging jazz and scat legend performed of American Indians, tours, including the African- Maintains several historic City Dock properties, including colonial Charles Town American History Tour that at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, with 1 Dock St, 21401 the Maynard-Burgess and the lives of enslaved highlights the Thurgood 410-263-7973 African Americans at House, which depicts the his grandson, C. Calloway Brooks, who now Marshall Memorial, This Colonial port is believed life of two African-American Mount Calvert. Matthew Henson to be the site where Kunta families in Annapolis from directs the Cab Calloway Orchestra. www.pgparks.com/ Plaque and other sites. Kinte, made famous by Alex 1847-1900. page329.aspx www.annapolis-tours.com Haley's Roots, entered the www.annapolis.org

16 Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide - National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 17 • • None of us got where we are solely by net) entitled "Beneath the Thurgood Marshall Baltimore & Ohio A pioneer in the acquisition Underground: The Flight to Memorial Railroad Museum of works by African- pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. Freedom," which focuses Lawyer's Mall, Maryland 901 W Pratt St, 21223 American artists including on stories of many freedom State House, 21401 410-752-2490 Joshua Johnson, Jacob We got here because somebody — a seekers and their accom­ 410-974-3400 Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm; Sat, Lawrence and Henry plices. This memorial honors 10am-5pm; Sun, 11am-5pm. Ossawa Tanner. The museum presents the parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony www.mdsa.net the first African-American www.artbma.org Supreme Court Justice, history of the Baltimore and i Maryland State who served for 24 years. Ohio Railroad Company or a few nuns — bent down and helped Baltimore Museum of House His most famous case, with an oral history exhibit Industry us pick up our boots.' ' 100 State Or, 21401 Brown v. Board of that features recorded 1415 Key Hwy, 21230-5100 410-974-3400 Education of Topeka, stories of African-American porters recalling work and —Thurgood Marshall Built between 1772-1779, in 1954, ended racial 410-727-4808 life on the B&O Railroad. this is the oldest state segregation in American Tues-Sun, 10am-4pm. www.borail.org THURGOOD MARSHALL (1908-1993), capital still in continuous public schools. Closed major holidays. legislative use. It served www.mdarchives.state, A hands-on museum Supreme Court justice, as the U.S. Capitol from md.us Baltimore Black Heritage with exhibits on Port of was denied entry to the November 1783-August Tours, Inc. Baltimore, garment industry, 1784 when the Continental Baltimore BCI C-18 PO Box 3014, 21229 orienting and oyster University of Maryland 443-983-7974 Congress met in the Old canning. Exhibits explain Your one-stop shop for Senate Chamber. Many African American how a visitor's ancestor, School of Law because travel and tourism needs state laws about slavery, Cultural Tours, LLC no matter their station of his race. He went on to black freedom and the including step-on guides, 10 E Lee St, Ste 707, 21202 in life, contributed to illegal activities of the 410-727-0755 hotel accommodations, become the lead NAACP educational and specialty Baltimore's development. Underground Railroad were Receptive operator tours for conventions, family www.thebmi.org attorney in the landmark debated and passed here. specializing in customized reunions, bus groups and In November 1864, the local, national and inter­ 1954 Brown v. Board of schools. Maryland Legislature abol­ national African-American Baltimore Rent-A-Tour www.myspace.com/ Education ofTopeka, Kansas, case that overturned ished slavery in the state. history tours featuring the 42 E Cross St, 21230 www.mdarchives.state, blackheritagetours the "separate but equal" doctrine in public Underground Railroad. 410-464-7994 md.us/msa/homepage/ Provides local and regional school segregation. In 1967, the Baltimore native html/statehse.html The Baltimore Museum Arbutus Memorial Park of Art tours, with an African- 1101 Sulphur Spring Rd, became the first African American named to the 10 Dr, 21218 American Heritage 21227 Matthew Henson 443-573-1700 Tour focusing on the U.S. Supreme Court. He is remembered with a 410-212-2700 Memorial Wed-Fri, 10am-5pm; contributions of African- memorial in Annapolis by the State House. The Rotunda, Maryland State A historical burial ground Sat-Sun, 11am-6pm; American Marylanders. House, 21401 for African Americans such Free general admission. www.rent-a-tour.com 410-260-6400 as National Baseball Hall of A memorial dedicated Famer Leon Day and jazz to Matthew Henson, an musician Chick Webb, Historic Annapolis 4 Maryland State African-American explorer www.arbutusmemorial ' Archives Foundation Walking Tours park.com JAMES E. LEWIS (1923-1997) was a ;<1§P^ & Museum Store Hall of Records, 350 Rowe who, accompanying 77 Main St, 21401 Blvd, 21401-1686 Admiral Robert E. Peary, sculptor and Chair of the Morgan State University was the first man to reach Arena Players 410-268-5576 410-260-6400, Art Department. The gallery he established on Sun-Thurs, 10am-6pm; 1-800-235-4045 the North Pole on April 6, 801 McCulloh St, Fri-Sat, 10am-9pm. Serves Wed-Fri, 8am-4:30pm; Sat, 1909. 21201-2198 campus in 1951 contains a renowned collection as the starting point for an 8:30am-12N & 1-4:30pm. 410-728-6500 Acoustiguide self-guided Closed first Sat of every The Stanton Center Sept-June, call for of African and African- walking tour of prominent month and Sat holiday 92 W Washington St, 21401 schedule. The oldest, American art. Among many landmarks from Annapolis' weekends. Government 410-295-5519 continually performing, Colonial history, including records, newspapers and Mon-Sat, 8:30am-5pm. historically black theater works sculpted by Lewis is an African-American Tour special collections provide Built in 1898 and listed in had its humble beginnings the Black Soldiers Memorial s highlighting the roles historical resources specific the National Register of in 1953 with a small group I of African Americans in to slavery and freedom in Historic Places, it served as of aspiring actors. Today Statue (at right) outside City shaping the town. Maryland. The Archives 3 the first African-American the theater is made up of Hall in Baltimore. www.hafmuseumstore.com, hosts an interactive school in Annapolis. volunteers who help keep 3 www.annapolis.org website (www.mdslavery. www.annapolis.gov the show running.

18 Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide ^" National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 19 Bethel AME Church (1785) Free Library I Frederick Douglass save hundreds of Africans MOTHER 1300 Druid Hill Ave, 21217 400 Cathedral St, 21201 Freedom and from bondage. Demonstra­ 410-523-4273 410-396-5430 Heritage Trail and tions and activities. Compli­ (1784-1882) founded the nation's first African- Mon-Fri, 8am-9prm; Sat, mentary audio tours daily. Mon-Wed, 11am-7pm; Tour American Roman Catholic order — the Oblate Sisters 9am-3pm. Baltimore's Thurs, 10am-5:30pm; Fri- PO Box 3014, 21229 www.historicships.org oldest, independent black Sat, 10am-5pm. Oct.-May, 443-983-7974 of Providence — in Baltimore. The order opened a institution, dating from the Sun, 1-5pm. One of the Walk through historic Fells James E. Lewis Museum late 18th century. Founded oldest and largest public Point in Baltimore and see of Art Catholic school for girls, thus beginning St. Frances by Coker after Underground Railroad Morgan State University, libraries in the country Academy, the oldest continuously operating school he left the Methodist church features an African-American locations associated with 2100 Argonne Dr, 21251 because of segregated department with a com­ Baltimore abolitionists and 443-885-3030 for black Catholic children in the United States. seating. prehensive collection of sites of resistance. Stop at Tues-Fr. 10am-4pm; Sat www.bethel1.org historical and contemporary the places where Frederick 11am-4pm; Sun 12N-4pm. materials. Douglass lived, worked, Named after former director Black Soldiers Memorial www.epfl.net worshipped and learned and university professor, the Statue how to read, and where he museum includes permanent Mount Auburn Cemetery The National Great Blacks City Hall, 21203 later returned to build five collections of African art. 2614 Annapolis Rd, 21230 in Wax Museum The Eubie Blake National Erected in 1972, this 9-foot townhouses. www.murphyfineartscenter. 410-547-0337 1601-03 E North Ave, 21213 Jazz Institute and bronze statue is dedicated org Mon-Fri, 8am-3pm; Sat, 8am- 410-563-3404 Culture Center to the memory of African- 12N; May 1-Oct 1: Mon-Fri, Tues-Sat, 9am-6pm; Sun, 847 N Howard St, 21201 Frederick Douglass-Isaac American soldiers who Leadenhall Baptist Church 8am-5pm; Sat, 8am-12N. 12N-6pm. Fall: Tues-Sat, 410-225-3130 Myers Maritime Park served in every American 1021 Leadenhall St, 21230 Founded in 1868, it is the 9am-5pm; Sun, 12N-5pm. Tues-Fri; 11am-4pm; Sat, 1417 Thames St, 21231 conflict. 410-685-0295 ext. 252 410-752-5191 oldest African-American- Nation's first black history 11 am-5pm. Explore the The park chronicles the saga Second oldest African- owned and operated wax museum with more life and music of Baltimore Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. of Frederick Douglass' life American church structure cemetery in Maryland. than 100 life-size wax musician Eubie Blake, Billie Courthouse in Baltimore as an enslaved in Baltimore. Among those buried here figures in dramatic Holiday, Cab Calloway and WON Calvert St, 21202 child and young man who is John Henry Murphy, historical scenes. others. 410-333-3800 gained his freedom. It also Maryland Historical Society the founder of the Afro- www.greatblacksinwax.org www.eubieblake.org Dedicated in honor of a explores the life of Isaac 201 W Monument St, American newspaper. native son who became 21201-4674 www.sharpstreet.org/ Myers, a free-born African Orchard Street Church/ known as the "101st Senator" First Baptist Church 410-685-3750 mtauburn.html American who became a Baltimore Urban League for his perseverance in 525 N Caroline St, 21205 Wed-Sat, 10am-5pm; Sun, national leader. Learn about 512 Orchard St, getting Congress to recog­ 410-675-2333 12N-5pm. Among the ^ the founding of the Chesa­ 21201-1947 nize the constitutional rights Organized in 1836 by society's many exhibits and Museum House peake Marine Railway and 410-467-6400 of African Americans. Clayton, a former Dry Dock Company and the resources is the "definitive" 1500 Washington Blvd. 21230 Oral history says this www.mdarchives. slave and lay minister, establishment of the African- Eubie Blake collection. 410-837-3262 state.md.us/msa/ it was Maryland's first American community in www.mdhs.org Thur-Sun, 11am-4pm. (last was a safe house on the mdmanual/36loc/bcity/ African-American Baptist Baltimore during the 1800s. tour 3pm) Mon by appt Underground Railroad, now html/bcftyj/html Church. www.douglassmyers.org Metropolitan United only. Closed major holidays. the home of the Greater Methodist Church Maryland's finest example Baltimore Urban League. www.bul.org Heritage Museum (Lafayette Square Church) of a Georgian estate and Hamlet Ct, 4509 Prospect Cir, 1121 WLanvale St, 21217 Baltimore's oldest house. ^REGINALD F. LEWIS (1942-1993) built a 21216 410-523-1366 Once an 800-acre agricul­ Pennsylvania Avenue 410-664-6711 Large Gothic church with tural and industrial complex, Heritage Trail origins that have been hundreds of enslaved company that became the largest Nonprofit institution 1528 Pennsylvania Ave, traced to Orchard Street people labored here. At preserving and presenting 21217 black-owned and managed business Church founder, Truman least four fled. history and culture of various 443-984-2369 Pratt. National Historic Landmark. in the United States. A Harvard Law ethnic groups. Along the trail, colorful www.mountclare.org and informative story signs School graduate, in 1987, he bought Historic Ships in Baltimore Mother Mary Lange and site markers introduce Beatrice International Foods and created TLC Pier 1, 301 E Pratt St, 21202 Monument Nanny Jack & Company you to Baltimore African 410-539-1797 Georgia St (off Pennsylvania 5100 Edmondson Ave, 21229 Americans that helped build Beatrice, a snack food, beverage, and grocery Apr-Oct 10am-5:30pm; Ave), 21227 Consulting firm that offers the city, gain civil rights and store conglomerate. The Baltimore native and Nov-Mar 10am-4:30pm. Four-foot monument honors a variety of services related change the face of Ameri­ Closed major holidays. "Mother Mary" Elizabeth to black memorabilia and can music, art, literature and philanthropist became the first African American Launched in 1854, it is the Lange, founder of the history, including African- politics. Guided tours are to create a $1 billion empire. last all-sail ship built by the Oblate Sisters of Providence, American heritage tours available May to October. U.S. Navy. Served in anti- the first order of African- of the Baltimore area. www.pennsylvaniaavenue slavery patrol, helping to American nuns. www.nannyjack.com baltimore.com

20 Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 21 j President Street Sharp Street Memorial to read the Bible," which USS Constellation JAMES HUBERT "EUBIE" BLAKE Station United Methodist Church was illegal at the time. 301 E Pratt St, 21202 601 President St, 21202 Dolphin & Etting sts, 21217 www.sfacademy.com 410-539-1797 (1883-1983), a legendary 410-385-5188 410-523-7200 Launched in 1854, it was ragtime composer and per­ 10am-5pm; Sun, 12N-5pm. Established in 1787, this was St. Frances Xavier the last all-sail ship built Located in the historic the first African-American Church by the U.S. Navy. The ship former, started playing the 1501 E Oliver St, 21213 Methodist church in the and crew saved thousands organ at age five; by age 15, (c. 1849), the museum tells State and is often referred 410-727-3103 of captured Africans from the stories of Baltimore's to as the "Mother Church of The first African-American bondage in the trans- he was dazzling audiences at Catholic community in the Atlantic slave trade. role in the Underground African-American Method­ brothels, clubs and saloons country, it was founded in Railroad, the Civil War and ism." The National Associa­ Demonstrations and 1793. activities occur onboard. Maryland's railroad history. tion for the Advancement of in his Baltimore hometown. In 1915, he teamed www.Josephite.com/ www.historicships.org/ www.angelfire.com/biz/ Colored People, during its parish/md/sfx constellation.html up with vocalist Noble Sissle on the 1921 opus presidentststation formative years, held meet­ ings at the church. "Shuffle Along" — one of the first musicals to www.sharpstreet.org The Star-Spangled The 1 Reginald F. Lewis be written, produced and directed by African Banner Flag House 600 N Charles St, 21201 ^"Museum of Maryland 844 E Pratt St, 21202 Sports Legends at 410-547-9000 Americans. Blake composed hits such as "I'm African American 410-837-1793 Camden Yards Wed-Thurs, Sat 11am- History and Culture Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm. Just Wild About Harry" and "Memories of You," 301 W Camden St, 21201 5pm; 11am-8pm. Closed 830 E Pratt St, 21202 Explores the role of African 410-727-1539 Independence Day, and in 1981 received the Medal of Freedom. 443-263-1800 Americans in early 19th- Nov-Mar Tues-Sun, 10am- Thanksgiving and Wed-Sat, 10am-5pm; Sun, century Baltimore and the 5pm. Apr-Oct daily, 10am- Christmas. Home to 12N-5pm. Largest museum . 6pm; Orioles home games Charles Henri- of its kind on the East Coast. www.flaghouse.org Cordier's bronze and owned by a free African- Premiere facility that cele­ 10am-7:30pm. Closed major Columbia HO W D- 16 holidays. Interactive local gold sculpture of an American man named brates more than 350 years of Thurgood Marshall sports personalities. Includes African woman visiting Paca. Maryland African-American Statue Howard County Center of a section dedicated to in 1851 (African history and culture. Pratt St at Hopkins PI, African-American Culture baseball's Negro Leagues. ), probably one Ellicott City HOW D-77 www.AfricanAmerican corner of Pratt & Sharp sts, 5434 Vantage Point Rd, 21044 www.sportslegendsat of the museum's best- Cufture.org 21201 410-715-1921 camdenyards.com known items. Ellicott City Colored Statue honors Baltimore Call for schedule. Group www.thewalters.org School native and first African- tours by appointment. Productions 8683 Main St, 21043 St. Frances Academy American Supreme Court Preserving the history of and Tours Catonsville BCOD-17 410-313-5131 501 E Chase St, 21202 justice, Thurgood Marshall. African-American culture in PO Box 2402, 21203 By appt. Restored one- 410-539-5794 Howard County. The center 410-728-3837 Oblate Sisters of room schoolhouse, built Established in 1828 by Union Baptist Church includes more than 4,000 Mount Providence in 1880, serves as living Tour company and winner Mother Mary Lange, it is books, a children's library 1219 Druid Hill Ave, 21217 701 Gun Rd, 21227 history museum/African- of "1999 Baltimore Heritage the oldest continuously and a research and reading 410-523-6880 410-242-8500 American genealogical Award," provides insight operating school for black library. Became the central point Founded in 1828, resource center. First into Baltimore's history from Catholic children in the www.hccaac.org in the struggle for civil the Oblate Sisters of publicly funded school in a black perspective. United States and is still rights, thanks to the efforts Providence were the first county for African-American www.renaissance educating children in of its leader, the Rev. Dr. successful Roman Catholic Darlington HARA-20 children. productions.biz/ Baltimore. It was founded Harvey Johnson. sisterhood established http://ellicottcitycolored index2.html to teach "children of color www.unionbaptistbalt.org by women of African Hosanna School Museum school.net. descent. Elizabeth Lange 2424 Castleton Rd, 21034 (later Mother Mary Lange) 410-457-4161 Fulton HOWD-16 and Maria Balas started a The first of three schools to BENJAMIN BANNEKER (1731-1806), a free-born /(fiR school, St. Frances Acad­ be built in Harford County African Art Museum of emy, to teach and care for in 1867 by the Freedmen's scientist and mathematician, who grew up on a farm Maryland African-American children. Bureau. The building of 11711 E Market Place, near Ellicott City, helped conduct a 1791 survey of the land www.oblatesisters.com the schools was mandated Maple Lawn, 20759 by state law across all of that would become Washington, D.C. He also published 301-490-6070 the former slave-holding Fri-Sat, 1-4pm; first Sun, states for the purpose of six almanacs, filled with information on tides and eclipses, For a Maryland Calendar 1-4pm; other times by appt. educating the recently A collection exhibiting and which he calculated himself. of Events, go to freed African-Americans. preserving the art of . www.visitmaryland.org. The property was originally www.africanartmuseum.org

22 Man/lands African-American Heritage Travel Guide ^- National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 23 Highland with 12-ton water wheel. It was Rockdale BCOA-17 Beach AARF-18 used by those escaping from southern slavery via the Underground Emmart-Pierpoint Frederick Douglass Railroad as a place to pick up Safe House Museum and Cultural provisions before continuing 3523 N Rolling Rd, 21244 maryland Center "Twin Oaks" their journey. 410-655-7821 3200 Wayman Ave, 21403 www.dnr.state.md.us/ Tours by appt. Vital station 410-267-6960 publiclands/susquehanna on the Underground By appt. This summer history.asp Railroad during the 1800s. cottage built for Frederick Douglass in 1895 serves as Oella BCO D-17 Sykesville CARC-U Calvert a memorial dedicated to preserving and displaying Benjamin Banneker Sykesville Colored County (CAD Schoolhouse exhibitions related to his Historical Park and Charles family and the history of the Museum 518 Schoolhouse Rd, 21784 community. 300 Oella Ave, 21228 410-489-6540 County (CHR) www.highiandbeachmd.org 410-887-1081 Call for hours. One-room Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm. A schoolhouse restored to St. Mary's County (STM) Highland Beach Community 142-acre institution of its 1904 appearance and 3200 Wayman Ave, 21403 cultural and natural history a repository for artifacts 410-267-6960 was the farmstead of the related to the African- Originally planned as an Banneker family. It centers American experience in exclusive vacation destina­ on America's first African- Carroll County. The letter-number code listed www.sykesville.net/ tion for African-American American man of science. beside each destination refers to the school.html families in 1893, and devel­ www.bannekermuseum. fold-out map inside the back cover. oped into the first incor­ com ."- HISTORIC ST. MARY'SCITY •' St. Mary's City porated African-American Towson BCO C-18 township Mount Gilboa AME x Hampton National in Maryland in 1922. Church Open by reservation. One Historic Site Chesapeake Island in 1634. The little that www.highlandbeachmd.org 2372 Westchester Ave, 21228 of the best-preserved 535 Hampton Ln, 21286-1397 CALH-18 is known about de Sousa is Located next to his home­ Beach African-American school- Jarrettsville HARB-18 stead, scientist Benjamin 410-823-1309 included in the museum's display. houses in the country. This Banneker was thought to Grounds open daily, St. Edmond's United structure still occupies its www.co.-marys.md.us/ Rock Run Grist Mill have worshipped at this site 9am-5pm. Closed major Methodist Church original site and has not recreate/museums/ Susquehanna State Park, before the current chapel holidays. Upon completion 3000 Dalrymple Rd, 20732 been significantly altered. 3318 Rocks Chrome Hill Rd, was completed in 1860. It is in 1790, this Georgian 410-535-2506 stclementsisland.asp www.stmarysmd.com/ 21084 also the site of the Benjamin mansion, home of the Office: Tues-Thurs, 11am- recreate/museums 410-557-7994 Banneker Obelisk and the Ridgely family, was the 4pm. Worship: Sun, 10:30 am. Dameron STM L-19 Memorial Day-Labor Day Sat- oldest African-American largest house in the nation Served the African-American Hollywood STM K-18 Sun. Call for hours. Stone mill church in Baltimore County. and home to more that 340 community as a school and St. 's Hall slaves. Features a family church beginning in 1857. 77765 Three Notch Rd, ' x Sotterley cemetery, slave quarters, Burned in 1893. The present 20628 Plantation carriages and gift shop. building dates from 1970. 301-872-4566 44300 Sotterley Ln, ^HARRIET TUBMAN (1820-1913) began life www.nps.gov/hamp Built in 1885 by the local Rt 245 N, 20636 as a slave in the Cambridge area. Coltons Point STM L-17 chapter of the Knights of St. 301-373-2280, West Jerome, the oldest Catholic 1-800-681-0850 Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm, last Having escaped in 1849, she Friendship HOW D-16 St. Clement's Island- fraternal organization in the tour at 3pm; Sun, 12N-4pm. Potomac River Museum Archdiocese of Washington. returned to the South a year later as The plantation retains an Nixon's Farm 38370 Pt Breeze Rd, 20626 In the late 1880s, the hall a "conductor" on the Underground served as the first parochial 1830s slave cabin that 2800 Nixon's Farm Ln, 301-769-2222 exemplifies typical slave school for black children in Railroad, helping to lead dozens Rt32W, 21794 March 25-Sept: Mon-Fri, housing in the Tidewater St. Mary's County. 443-364-8380 9am-5pm; Sat-Sun, 12N-5pm. region. The history of of enslaved family and friends to freedom. The The only African-American Oct1-Mar24:Wed-Sun, slavery at Sotterley is told 100th anniversary of her death has focused atten­ owned and operated 12N-4pm. Mathias de Sousa, Drayden STML-18 through the cabin and facility of its kind in often noted as the first indi­ related artifacts, as well as tion on the Harriet Tubman Underground Byway Maryland, specializing in vidual of African descent to Drayden African-American through the story of the and parks in her honor on the Eastern Shore. weddings, family reunions settle in Maryland, was part Schoolhouse Kane family that lived on and special events. of the first group of Colonists 18287 Cherryfield Rd, 20630 the plantation. www.nixonsfarm.com to land at St. Clement's 301-994-1471 www.sotterley.org

24 Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide ^*- National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 25 Carver Community 10:30am. The focus of the Hughesville CHR I-16 FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1895): Scotland STMM-19 Center (Formerly George civic life for African Americans vi Camp author, orator and Washington Carver yl Point Lookout State in the area since the 1850s. The cemetery is listed on /f Stanton School) -'•T Park & Civil War statesman, was Museum the Maryland Underground Prince Frederick Rd, 20637 47450 Lincoln Ave, 20653 11175 Pt Lookout Rd, 20687 Railroad Network to Freedom This former Union encamp­ performing slave Carver School, built in 1958, and 301-872-5688, and includes graves of many ment was established in Union soldiers from the labor as a ship its predecessor, Jarboesville 1-800-432-CAMP (2267) 1863 for the recruitment Civil War. School, built in 1925, served Museum: Sat, 10am-5pm, and training of black caulker in Balti­ African-American students Sun, 10am-4pm through Oct; soldiers, some of whom vi Jefferson Patterson in southern St. Mary's. Park: Apr-Oct, 10am-4pm. had recently escaped more when, in 1838, .Park & Museum Carver graduated its last In 1863, the federal govern­ enslavement. Now empty 10515 Mackall Rd, 20685 he boarded a train high school class in 1966, ment erected a prison camp fields, visitors can travel an 410-586-8501 when county schools were that eventually held 50,000 African-American heritage to Havre de Grace Apr15-Oct 15: Wed-Sun, desegregated. It became Confederate prisoners. paddling trail on the Among the federal army 10am.-5pm. Archaeological and, disguised as a an integrated elementary park and visitor center with Patuxent River to the site. school and then a com­ units to serve as guards were African-American soldiers of exhibits, including Sukeek's The site may also be sailor, crossed into munity center. Located in the U.S. Colored Troop regi­ Cabin Site, representing a viewed from the south South Hampton, formerly free territory. By ments. The site also features previously enslaved family's side of Route 231, Prince a housing development earthworks, a reconstructed first home as free people Frederick Road. built in the 1940s exclusively after the Civil War. Nature the time of the Civil War, his orations on slavery barracks and a prisoner's pen. www.dnr.state.md.us/ for African-American civilian trails, and the site of the www.dnr.state.md.us/ publiclands/aapaxstanton. and women's rights made him famous across and military employees of annual African-American publiclands/southern/ html the Patuxent River Naval Family Community Day in the country. He later became the first African- pointlookout.html Air Station. July. Huntingtown CAL 1-18 American citizen to hold a high rank in the www.jefpat.org CAL K-19 Port Tobacco CHRJ-15 Patuxent United federal government, serving as U.S. minister St. Mary's City STML-19 Methodist Church and consul general to . J Port Tobacco MD Rt 2, 20688 3500 Solomons Island Rd N, Courthouse 410-326-2042 Historic St. Mary's City 20639 7215 Chapel Point Rd, Daily, 10am-5pm. Closed Rt 5 & Rosecroft Rd, 20686 410-535-9819 20677 Thanksgiving, Christmas, 240-895-4990, The original church was 301-934-4313 New Year's. Museum fea­ \A Southern Maryland attempts at flight ended 1-800-762-1634 built in 1883. Burned 7 This reconstructed court­ tures collections, exhibits, 1 Studies Center here. The Jail's exhibits Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm. A in 1893. Within seven house is where two African paleontology, children's 8730 Mitchell Rd, 20646 feature the stories of five monument to Mathias de months, the present Americans were tried for rooms and the Drum Point 301-934-7626 runaway slaves who were Sousa, the first Marylander building was erected on aiding in the flight of more Lighthouse. The nearby J.C. The College of Southern incarcerated, highlight­ of African descent, stands at the site and dedicated, than 30 armed freedom Lore & Sons Oyster House Maryland provides resources ing some of the choices Historic St. Mary's City, the debt-free. seekers from Southern was built in 1934 and features state's Colonial capital that with information on slavery, confronting freedom seek­ Maryland in 1845. "Seasons of Abundance, now serves as an outdoor freedom, and the culture ers and the struggles they www.restoreporttobacco. Seasons of Want: Making a living history museum. La Plata CHRI-16 and development of South­ endured. org Living from the Waters of the Museum exhibits provide ern Maryland from the www.stmaryshistory.org Patuxent." Most of the oyster African-American information on de Sousa Colonial period forward. house workers were African Heritage Society Museum Prince and Africans in 17th-century www.csmd.edu/library/ Lexington Americans, and their work is Maryland. 7485 Crain Hwy smsc Park STMK-19 Frederick CAL 1-18 interpreted in the exhibit. www.stmaryscity.org PO Box 2250, 20646 www.calvertmarine 301-609-9099 Leonardtown STMK- 17 African-American Calvert County Historical museum.com Sunderland CAL 1-18 Tours by appointment. Monument Society Depicts the life, history 70 Church St, 20678 i Old Jail of St. Mary's 21744 S Coral Dr, 20653 St. Leonard CALJ-IS H. Elizabeth Brown and contributions of 410-535-2452 County Museum 301-737-5447 Roadside Marker famous African Americans Courthouse Dr & Key Way, Dedicated in 2000, the Tues-Thurs, 10am-3pm. Brooks United Methodist MD Rt 2 at Pushaw Station from Charles County and 20650 monument recognizes local Among the society's Church & Cemetery Rd, 20689 displays artifacts used 301-475-2467 African-American achieve­ special collections are 5550 Mackall Rd (MD Rt 265), The marker documents a during the time of slavery. Built in 1858, the museum ments in the arts, agricul­ African-American 20685 local teacher's pursuit of www.africanamerican represents the fear and ture, business, politics genealogies and other 410-586-3972 equalization of teacher heritagecouncil.blogspot. despair facing freedom and education. historical documents. Cemetery: daylight hours. salaries in Calvert County com seekers whose unsuccessful www.ucaconline.org www.calverthistory.org Worship: Sun, 7:45-8:45am; and throughout Maryland.

26 Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 27 i Harriet Tubman Memorial Lucretia Kennard Daniels, Frederick Douglass Statue eastern Garden who, with Larrie S. Jones, 11 N Washington St, 21601 4 Washington St, Rt 50 E, helped purchase land for 410-770-8000 shore 21613 school. The Frederick Douglass 410-228-1000 www.historicqac.org Honor Society commis­ Native plantings, interpre­ sioned sculptor Jay Hall tive signage and a folk art Chestertown KEND-21 Carpenter for the statue tribute to Harriet Tubman. of Frederick Douglass that Caroline Historical Society of stands on the front lawn of County (CRN) Harriet Tubman Museum Kent County the Talbot County Court­ Cecil County (CEC) and Educational Center 101 Church Alley, PO Box house. Dorchester 424 Race St, 21613 665, 21620 www.tourtalbot.org County (DOR) 410-228-0401 410-778-3499 Kent County (KEN) Mon-Sat, 10am-2pm. Keep­ Tues-Fri, 10am-4pm. Historical Society of Queen Anne's County (QUA) ing Harriet Tubman's legacy Information on African Talbot County Somerset County (SOM) alive with museum tours (by Americans in Kent County. 25 S Washington St, 21601 Talbot County (TAL) appointment), literature and Located at historic Geddes- 410-822-0773 Wicomico County (WIC) historical displays. Piper House. Museum: Mon-Sat, 10am- Worcester County (WOR) www.kentcountyhistory.org 4pm. Office: Mon-Fri, 9am- Stanley Institute 5pm. Campus includes an antiques shop, three historic The letter-number code listed MDRt 16 & Bayly Rd, 21613 Denton CRN G-22 homes and a museum that beside each destination refers to the 410-228-6657 By appt. Restored, 19th- Museum of Rural Life features profiles and exhibits fold-out map inside the back cover. century, one-room school- 12 N Second St, 21629 on important African aJ!ll |.l!>A'JJ!^i^«i:[ci:t.;.rtr ^BJ ; house, among the oldest in 410-479-2055 Americans from Talbot the state to be organized by Mon-Sat, 10am-3pm; Sun County. African Americans. 12N-4pm. Museum depicts www.hstc.org Cambridge DOR 1-21 Bucktown Village Store Tubman's niece Kessiah historic rural lifestyle of Third Haven Meeting 4303 Bucktown Rd, 21613 Bowley and Bowley's two Waugh Chapel United townspeople including a House Bazel Methodist 410-901-9255 children escaped from the Methodist Church free black sailor and an auction block in 1850. enslaved girl. Exhibit high­ 405 S Washington St, 21601 Episcopal Church Tours upon request. Site of 425 High St, 21613 www.tourdorchester.org lights Harriet Tubman, who 410-822-0293 Bestpitch Ferry Rd, 21613 Harriet Tubman's first act of 410-228-5189 passed through area as part The oldest positively 410-228-1000 defiance. She was struck in Site of the oldest African- of Underground Railroad. identified structure in By appt. Small wooden the head with a two-pound J Finding a Way to American Methodist Maryland. Used by church where Harriet weight while assisting a Freedom Tour congregation (1825). Quakers, who were ardent Tubman's relatives slave avoiding the anger Visitor Center at Sailwinds Easton TAL H-21 Park, 2 Rose Hill PI, 21613 abolitionists, it probably worshipped in the mid-1800s. of the field overseer. Centreville QUA p-21 housed fugitive enslaved www.bucktownvillage 410-228-1000 j Frederick Douglass 1-800-522-TOUR Driving Tour of persons. Blackwater Paddle and foundation.org Hope School A 125-mile driving tour Talbot County www.thirdhaven.org Pedal Adventures featuring sites that illustrate 125 Ruthsburg Rd, 21617 25 S Washington St, 21601 4303 Bucktown Rd, 21613 J Dorchester County 410-758-2502 the story of the Under­ 410-822-0773 CEC B-22 Courthouse Elkton 410-901-9255 ground Railroad in Dorches­ May-Oct. In 1892, this Born into slavery, Frederick Travel by boat or bicycle in 206 High St, 21613 one-room schoolhouse was ter and Caroline counties. Douglass escaped to be­ Historical Society of Blackwater National Wildlife 410-228-1000 listed as "Colored School www.tourdorchester.org come a leading abolitionist. Cecil County Refuge. Explore waterways Site of frequent slave No. 2." Restored and His speeches inspired many 135 E Main St, 21921 used by Harriet Tubman on auctions throughout the moved to Queen Anne's Harriet Tubman Marker whites to work on the Under­ 410-398-1790 antebellum period. Sam the Underground Railroad. Greenbriar Rd, 21613 County High School. ground Railroad. Self-guided Mon, 10am-4pm; Tues, Green, a free black Under­ Four themed itineraries 410-228-0401 www.historicqac.org driving tour gives visitors an 6pm-8:30pm; Thurs, ground Railroad agent, was available. Guided tours Marker located at the overview of Douglass' early 10am-4pm; 1st and 4th Sat, convicted here for owning a by appointment for a fee. Brodess Farm, where Har­ Kennard School life at 14 sites. Information 10am-2pm. Genealogical Located in Bucktown Village copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin. riet Tubman lived as an 410 Little KidwellAve, 21617 and tour brochure available library, artifacts, local history Store, owned by Meredith White Underground Rail­ enslaved child. Tubman was By appt. Built in 1936 to from the Historical Society of library; log cabin. Resources family for generations. road agent Hugh Hazlett called "The Moses of Her be county's first secondary Talbot County. on slaves and African www.blackwaterpaddle stood trial here. Outdoor People" for her work on the school for African www.hstc.org/ Americans in Maryland. andpedal.com exhibit explains how Harriet Underground Railroad. Americans. Named for toursandmuseum.htm www.cchistory.org

28 Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide ^- National Underground Railroad Netvrorir To Freedom Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 29 Pocomoke St. Michaels TAL H-20 West Denton CRN G-22 City WOR M-24 Chesapeake Bay Maritime 1 Choptank index destinations Sturgis One-Room School Museum ^ River Museum Navy Point, 21663 10215 River Landing Rd, Abraham Hall 11 Catoctin Center for Regional Heritage Museum 20 21629 209 Willow St, 21851 410-745-2916 African American Cultural Studies 12 Highland Beach Community 24 Summer: 10am-6pm; spring/ 410-479-4950 410-957-1913 Tours, LLC 19 Catoctin Furnace 16 Historic Annapolis Foundation 17 May-Oct: Wed and Sat, fall: 10am-5pm; winter: 10am- Site of numerous escape African American Schoolhouse Charles Sumner GAR Hall 30 Historic Annapolis Foundation 4pm. Closed Thanksgiving, attempts by freedom seek­ Museum 30 1-4pm or by appt. Circa- The Charlotte Duckett Log Walking Tours & Christmas, New Year's Day. ers relying on their own 1900, African-American African Art Museum of Cabin at the Patuxent Museum Store 18 one-room school museum. Extensive maritime exhib­ maritime skills or secreted Maryland 23 Rural Life Museum 16 Historic Ships In Baltimore 20 www.octhebeach.com/ its, plus a white clapboard aboard vessels. More than African-American Heritage Cherry Hill Cemetery 14 Historic St. Mary's City 27 Society Museum 26 museum/Sturgis.html house once owned by Peter 15 public access points Chesapeake Bay Maritime Mitchell, a free black man include , African-American Monument 26 Historical Society of Museum 30 Cecil County 29 who married the sister of Choptank Boat Launch, the Alex Haley Memorial/ Preston CRN H-22 Chipman Cultural Center 30 Frederick Douglass. One son Choptank River Heritage Kunta Kinte Plaque 17 Historical Society of Choptank River 30 Kent County 29 1 Arthur Leverton's worked as a bay waterman in Center and Joppa Steam­ Annapolis Tours & City Dock 17 Historical Society of • Farm Site the 1800s. boat Wharf in West Denton. Watermark Cruises 17 Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Talbot County 29 3424 Gallagher Rd, 21655 www.cbmm.org Here, visitors can rent Antietam Furnace 10 Courthouse 20 Holy Family Roman 1-800-873-3763 canoes and kayaks and find Antietam National Battlefield 10 Catholic Church 13 By appt. Arthur W. Leverton, Sudlersville QUA E-22 out about 15 self-guided Arbutus Memorial Park 19 Croom Airport 16 Hope School 29 an Underground Railroad heritage paddle trips. Arena Players 19 Darnall's Chance House Hosanna School Museum 23 agent, owned this property Dudley's Chapel Marker www.riverheritage.org Aris T.Allen Statue 17 Museum 16 Howard County Center of from 1848 until 1859. When 1110 Benton Comer Rd, Arrest Site of William Chaplin 16 Discover Annapolis Tours 17 Doleman Black Heritage African-American Culture 23 his role was revealed in early 21668 KEN D-21 Arthur Leverton's Farm Site 30 Worton In Their Steps: A Guided 1858 after enslaved fugitives 410-928-3406 Asbury United Methodist Museum 10 Walking Tour 15 were captured, Leverton fled, Open by request and the African American Church 9 Dorchester County Courthouse ....28 James E. Lewis Museum of Art 21 leaving behind his family and first Sat of each month, May- Schoolhouse Museum Baltimore 8c Ohio Railroad Dorsey Chapel 12 Museum 19 JaneC. Sween Library 15 livelihood. The farm site is Oct, 1-3pm. Among oldest Rt 297, St James-Newtown Drayden African-American Methodist churches in the Baltimore Black Heritage Jefferson & now the John S. Ayton State Rd, 21678 Schoolhouse 25 Forest Tree Nursery. country. Preaching station for Tours, Inc 19 Museum 27 410-810-1416 Dudley's Chapel Marker 30 bishops Cooke and Asbury. The Baltimore Museum of Art 19 Josiah Henson Special Park/ By appt. only; call ahead. Ellicott City Colored School 23 www.historicqac.org/sites/ Baltimore Museum of Industry 19 Riley Farm 14 Princess Anne SOML-23 One-room schoolhouse Emmanuel Parish 9 Sudldudleys.htm Baltimore Rent-A-Tour 19 Kennard School 29 built 1890. Showplace of Emmart-Pierpoint Safe House 24 Kennedy Farm House Teackle Mansion 19th- and early 20th-century Banneker-Douglass Museum 17 20 11736 Mansion St, 21853 DOR H-21 Trappe photographs, oral histories Bazel Methodist Episcopal Eubie Blake National Jazz {John Brown HQ) 10 410-651-2238 and artifacts from Kent Church 28 Institute and Culture Center....20 Leadenhall Baptist Church 21 1-800-521-9189 Frederick Douglass Marker County's African-American Beali-Dawson House 15 Ferry Hill Place 10 Marietta House Museum 12 Apr-mid-Dec: Wed, Sat, Mattfiewstown Rd, near community. Belair Mansion 11 Ferry Hill Plantation 10 Maryland Historical Society 21 Sun, 1-3pm; Mid-Dec-Mar: Tuckahoe River Bridge, 21601 Benjamin Banneker Historical Finding a Way to Freedom Tour....28 18 Sun 1-3pmEarly-1800s brick 410-770-8000 Charles Sumner GAR Hall Park and Museum 24 First Baptist Church 20 Maryland State House 18 mansion is home of the Frederick Douglass was born 206 S Queen St, 21620 Best Farm- L'Hermitage 12 Somerset Historical Society. in 1818 on a farm that is now Fort Frederick State Park 9 Matthew Henson Memorial 18 410 778-3222 Bethel AME Church (1785) 20 htttp://teackle. mansion, Trappers Corner in Talbot Frederick Douglass Driving Metropolitan United Methodist Built in 1908, one of only Black Soldiers Memorial Statue ....20 Tour of Talbot County 29 Church {Lafayette Square museum County. A marker honors his Frederick Douglass Freedom and two African-American Civil BlacksoxPark 11 Church) 21 memory. Heritage Trail and Tour 20 War veterans' halls standing Blackwater Paddle and Miller House 10 Salisbury wic K-24 www.tourtalbot.org Frederick Douglass Marker 30 in the United States. A Civil Pedal Adventures 28 Mother Mary Lange Monument....21 War Trails exhibit interprets Frederick Douglass Museum and Chipman Cultural Center Unionville TAL H-20 Boyds Negro School House 11 Mount Auburn Cemetery 21 the hall on the exterior. Brooks United Methodist Cultural Center "Twin Oaks"....24 327 Broad St, Rt50&Rt 13, Mount Calvert Historical & www.kentcounty.com/ Church 8c Cemetery 27 Frederick Douglass Statue 29 21801 Unionville Archaeological Park 16 attractions/museums.php Frederick Douglass-Isaac 410-860-9290 Near Easton, on the Miles Brunswick Railroad Museum 12 Myers Maritime Park 20 Mount Clare Museum House 21 River Neck, 21601 Bucktown Village Store 28 By appt. Located in the oldest H. Elizabeth Brown Roadside Mount Gilboa AME Church 24 standing African-American 410-770-8000 Calvert County Historical Marker 27 For a free Maryland Byways Museum of Rural Life 29 church on Delmarva, circa Town named in honor of 17 Society 27 Hampton National Historic Site 24 Nanny Jack 8: Company 21 1838, the center features African- map, visit the State Highway Calvert Marine Museum 27 Harriet Tubman Marker 28 displays and events highlight­ soldiers who returned home Camp Stanton 26 The National Great Blacks in Administration website, Harriet Tubman Memorial Wax Museum 21 ing the area's rich African- to purchase land. Carver Community Center Garden 29 National Museum of Civil War American heritage. www.tourtalbot.org www.sha.state.md.us. {Formerly George Harriet Tubman Museum and Medicine 12 Washington Carver School) 27 Educational Center 29 30 Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide r~ National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide 31 Negro Mountain 9 Reginald F. Lewis Museum of St. Paul United Methodist Nixon's Farm 24 Maryland African American Church at Oxon Hill 14 History and Culture 22 maryland of tradition Northampton Slave Quarters and Stanley Institute 29 Renaissance Productions and Archaeological Park 11 The Stanton Center 18 Tours 22 Oakley Cabin African American The Star-Spangled Banner Riversdale House Museum 14 Museum and Park 14 Flag House 22 Rock Run Grist Mill 24 Oblate Sisters of Sturgis One-Room School Mount Providence 23 Roger Brooke Taney House 12 Museum 30 Rose Hill Cemetery 10 Old Jail of St. Mary's County Sykesville Colored Sandy Spring Slave Museum & Museum 26 Schoolhouse 24 African Art Gallery, Inc 15 Orchard Street Church/ Teackle Mansion 30 Sharp Street Memorial Baltimore Urban League 21 United Methodist Church 22 Third Haven Meeting House 29 Oxon Cove Park & Shawnee Oldfield Village 9 Thurgood Marshall Memorial 19 OxonHill Farm 14 Sotterley Plantation 25 Thurgood Marshall Statue 22 Patuxent United Methodist Tolson's Chapel 10 Church 26 Southern Maryland Studies Center 26 The Underground Railroad Pennsylvania Avenue Sports Legends at Camden Experience Trail 15 Heritage Trail 21 Yards 22 Union Baptist Church 22 & St. Clement's Island- Civil War Museum 27 Potomac River Museum 25 Unionville 30 Poplar Hill on His Lordship's St. Edmond's United Methodist USS Constellation 23 Kindness 12 Church 25 The Walters Art Museum 23 Port Tobacco Courthouse 27 St. Frances Academy 22 Warren Historic Site 14 maryland welcome centers President Street Station 22 St. Frances Xavier Church 22 Waugh Chapel United Queen's Chapel Methodist St. Jerome's Hall 25 Methodist Church 29 South Mountain East Welcome Center Episcopal Church Site St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal The Wayne K. Curry Sports and and Cemetery 15 Church 13 Learning Complex 13 1-70 East, mile marker #39 301-293-4172 General Delivery, Myersville, MD 21773

South Mountain West Welcome Center 1-70 West, mile marker #39 301-293-8438 index cities and towns General Delivery, Myersville, MD 21773 County abbreviations and letter-number coordinates listed here refer to the fold-out Mason Dixon Welcome Center Maryland map that appears in the back of this guide. U.S. 15,1 mile south of PA Opens May 2012 Emmitsburg, MD 21727 Annapolis (MR) F-19 17 Fulton (HOW) D-16 23 Rockdale (BCO) A-17 24 Baltimore (BCIJC-18 19 Glenn Dale (PRG) F-16 12 Rockville (MON) E-15 15 1-95 South Welcome Center Beltsville (PRG) F-16 11 Grantsville (GAR) A-3 9 Rossville (PRG) F-16 15 1-95 South, mile marker #37 301-490-2444 Big Pool (WAS)A-10 9 Hagerstown (WAS) A-11 9 Salisbury (WIC) K-24 30 PO Box 288, Savage, MD 20763 Highland Beach (AAR)F-18 24 Bowie (PRG) F-17 11 Sandy Spring (MON) E-15 15 Hollywood (STM) K-18 25 Boyds (MON) E-14 11 Scotland (STM) M-19 27 1-95 North Welcome Center Hughesville(CHR)M6 26 1-95 North, mile marker #37 301-490-1333 Brunswick (PRE) D-12 12 Sharpsburg (WAS) C-11 10 Huntingtown (CAL) 1-18 26 Silver Spring (MON) F-15 16 PO Box 1058, Savage, MD 20763 Cambridge (DOR) 1-21 28 Jarrettsville (HAR) B-18 24 Solomons (CAL) K-19 27 Catonsville(BCO)D-17 23 La Plata (CHRJ1-16 26 Centreville (QUA) F-21 29 Landover (PRG) F-16 13 St. Leonard (CAL)J-18 27 Chesapeake Beach (CAL) H-18 25 Laurel (PRG) E-16 13 St. Mary's City (STM) L-19 27 travel & lodging reservation services Leonardtown (STM) K-17 26 St. 's (TAL) H-20 30 Chestertown (KEN) D-21 29 Want help planning your visit to Maryland? To receive additional travel assistance, Lexington Park (STM) K-19 26 Sudlersville (QUA) E-22 30 Clinton (PRG) H-16 12 call toll-free to speak with a Maryland Travel Specialist: 1-877-333-4455. Coltons Point (STM) L-17 25 Mitchellville(PRG)G-17 13 Sunderland (CAL) 1-18 27 Columbia (HOW) D-16 23 North Bethesda (MON) E-15 14 Sykesville (CAR) C-16 24 Oella(BCO)D-17 24 Cumberland (ALL) A-6 9 Thurmont(FRE) A-13 16 Olney (MON) E-15 14 Dameron (STM) L-19 25 Towson (BCO) C-18 24 Oxon Hill (PRG) G-15 14 Darlington (HAR) A-20 23 Trappe (DOR) H-21 30 Pocomoke City (WOR) M-24 30 Denton (CRN) G-22 29 Unionville (TAL) H-20 30 Poolesville (MON) E-13 14 Upper Marlboro (PRG) G-17 16 Drayden (STM) L-18 25 Port Tobacco (CHR) J-15 27 Easton (TAL) H-2! 29 Preston (CRN) H-22 30 West Denton (CRN) G-22 30 Go to visitmaryland.org to use Maryland's interactive tourism map Elkton (CEC) B-22 29 Prince Frederick (CAL) 1-18 26 West Friendship (HOW) D-16 24 MARYLAND Ellicott City (HOW) D-17 23 Princess Anne (SOM) L-23 30 Williamsport (WAS) B-11 10 to discover fun and exciting places to visit. Frederick (ERE) C-)3 12 Riverdale Park (PRG) F-16 14 Worton (KEN) D-21 30 VisitMaryland.org 32 Maryland's African-American Heritage Travel Guide l/l/kem the, aMa/Mt atimc&ott IS THE TIME YOU'LL SPEND TOGETHER

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