The Island

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Barracks     Hospital

Brick – kiln

1755

Marker is on Old Fort Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Island

?

Barracks     Hospital

Brick – kiln

1755

Marker is on Old Fort Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Rebirth of a Maryland Historical Treasure

Originally built in 1906 by the United Railways and Electric Company on this site, stood the once grand Bay Shore Park Restaurant. As the picture below captures the beauty of the former building's elaborate architecture complete with pergolas and towers, ...

The DeButts Family Comes to Maryland - Mount Welby

[Panel 1:] The DeButts Family Comes to Maryland

Samuel DeButts was born in Ireland in 1756. He began a career as a doctor in England and there met and married his wife, Mary Welby, in 1785. Samuel’s medical practice was ...

The Netherland Carillon / History of the Carillon

The Netherland Carillon

The carillon was a gift fro British Columbia’s Dutch community to honour Canada’s 100th birthday in 1967. Her Majesty Queen Juliana of the Netherlands unveiled the cornerstone of this tower on May 23, 1967; it now sits in ...

The Cumberland Trace

A Native American Trail

Named by early pioneers traversing thru the region, this designated Indian trail led these settlers into this area during Western migration. This mainly Cherokee trail, (although used some by the Shawnee), originated at Rockwood in Roane County, ...

The Cleveland School Fire

Erected to the memory of those who lost their lives in the Cleveland School Fire, on the night of May 17, 1923.

Grace Arrants, Age 7 yr.; Ima Arrants, Age 17 yr; Mrs. Floride Brown, Age 47 yr.; Lottie Brown, Age ...

The First National Bank and Trust Company of Western Maryland

was originally chartered as the Cumberland Bank of Alleghany by an act of the 1811 Maryland Legislature and opened for business April 1, 1812. this is the oldest bank in Western Maryland and the second oldest National Bank in the ...

The Xzanders G. McFarland House and McFarland Gap

Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail

Mr. Xzanders Gordon McFarland of Walker County(Rossville Georgia) was a slave holder. So when the Civil War took his two oldest sons into the army, he gathered his slaves, his four teenage daughters and his stock and ...

The 1st Rhode Island Regiment and the Battle of Rhode Island

The 1st Rhode Island Regiment of the Continental Line

1775 – 1783

The war for American Independence was a long and arduous struggle that demanded much of the American people. Rhode Island responded to those demands with patriotic fervor, enduring the ...