From escaped slave to worldwide advocate of abolition and social justice, Frederick Douglass's larger-than-life presence spanned the 19th century. As a young man, Douglass fled his Maryland ...

Less than an hour from D.C., Gettysburg, and Baltimore, the town of Frederick, Maryland, is an amicable people-pleaser. Much ...

Begin your exploration at each of the three county historical societies and learn more about the intricacies of the houses in which they reside.

The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" was born in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern ... would last into the Civil War.