Saint Clement’s Island
(One-half mile offshore)
Site of the first landing of Governor Leonard Calvert and the Maryland colonists, March 25, 1634. Here, on the same day, Father Andrew White, S. J. celebrated the first Catholic mass in the British-American colonies.
The Island became a part of St. Clements Manor, granted Dr. Thomas Gerard, November 3, 1639 and was later owned by the Blackistone family for over 200 years during which it was known as Blackistone Island.
Marker is on Point Breeze Road 0.2 miles east of Colton Point Road (Route 242), on the left when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
