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The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation, won’t be returning to its former perch in Baltimore’s Canton Square, ...
Developers are looking to build 50 single-family, detached homes in Frederick — drawing upon an approval that dates back over 100 years. The project, called Rock Hill, would be on 13.47 acres owned by ...
After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the ... in that time and at that place. While Maryland had remained in the United States during the war, most of the landed gentry of Talbot County had been ...
When the last Alexander Neill died in 1911, the community mourned the passing of three men who helped shape the history of ...
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union group started in 1874 intending to end the consumption of alcohol in the United States ...
“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.
In 1849, Harriet Tubman fled Maryland to Philadelphia ... contention that slaves actually liked their lives.” During the Civil War, Tubman served with the Union Army as a rifle-toting scout ...
Baltimore— The African American Department of the Enoch Pratt Free Library is proud to present the official premiere of ...
History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...
Public Service Commission Chair Frederick Hoover gives an update on the ongoing application process for the Maryland Piedmont ...