On Druid Hill Avenue (Maryland Route 129) at West Lanvale Street, on the right when traveling south on Druid Hill Avenue. Reported missing.
Servant of God, Champion of the People, Mother of Freedom May 25, 1976 Erected by the Association for Study of Afro-American Life and History In Cooperation with the Amoco Foundation, Inc. — — Map (db m6238) HM
On Druid Hill Avenue at West Lafayette Avenue on Druid Hill Avenue.
In Memory of Rev. Dr. Vernon Nathaniel Dobson, October 29, 1923-January 26, 2013.
A Civil Rights Leader who Marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama with Dr. King. Helped desegregate Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, Founded the Maryland Food Bank, . . . — — Map (db m101655) HM
On Dolphin Street at Etting Street, on the right when traveling south on Dolphin Street.
Named in honor of its original location, Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church descends from the first black congregation in Baltimore. In 1797, blacks gatehred at 112-116 Sharp Street, where the Maryland Society for the Abolition of Slavery . . . — — Map (db m6239) HM
On Laurens Avenue at Pennsylvania Avenue on Laurens Avenue.
Welcome to the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail – a journey through Baltimore’s premier historic African American community. Here you will meet civil rights leaders, artists and musicians, attend historic African American churches, and . . . — — Map (db m168817) HM
Union Baptist Church incorporated on May 10, 1852 as the second-oldest Negro Baptist church in Baltimore. This structure was built at a cost of $51,256 and dedicated on December 17, 1905. Architect William J. Beardsley designed the church in a Late . . . — — Map (db m101636) HM
On North Broadway, 0.1 miles south of Fayette Street, on the right when traveling south.
This structure, now the east building of Church Hospital, was erected in 1836, to house the Washington Medical College. Edgar Allan Poe, author, and poet, was brought here, ill and semi-conscious, on October 3, 1849 and died four days later. In . . . — — Map (db m2426) HM
On Waterview Avenue, 0 miles west of Annapolis Road (Maryland Route 648), on the right when traveling east.
Oldest cemetery for African Americans in Baltimore, founded in 1872 by Rev. James Peck, pastor, and trustees of Sharp Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Dating to 1787, the congregation served the community and was influential in the freedom . . . — — Map (db m13540) HM
On Frederick Road at North Beaumont Avenue, on the left when traveling east on Frederick Road.
On May 17, 1968, nine Catholic activists raided the Selective Service office in Catonsville and burned several hundred draft files to protest the Vietnam War. In a highly-publicized trial, the “Nine”, who included priests Daniel and Philip Berrigan, . . . — — Map (db m136419) HM
On Ingleside Road, on the left when traveling north.
Salemsgemeinde, the German Evangelical Lutheran Salem Congregation, was founded September 30, 1849 by German immigrants, many from Bavaria. The congregation dedicated this Gothic Revival style church June 16, 1850. That year the congregation built a . . . — — Map (db m115248) HM
On Van Buren Lane, 0.1 miles north of Jefferson Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Located on Wesley Chapel Road, 0.3 miles west of Troyer Road, Monkton. Second church at the site built 1888, destroyed by fire c. 1900, rebuilt in 1901, dismantled in 1976 due to declining membership. Cemetery still maintained. . . . — — Map (db m188730) HM
On North Point Road at Robinson Avenue, on the right when traveling west on North Point Road.
Erected by the Patriotic Order
Sons of America of Maryland,
In the year of the
National Star-Spangled Banner Centennial
1914.
This building, known as the
Battle Ground Methodist Episcopal Church,
was occupied by General Stricker, . . . — — Map (db m115241) HM
Near North Point Road (Route 20) at Avenue C, on the left when traveling south.
The Presbytery of Baltimore here commemorates the first regular services of the Presbyterian Church within its bounds. These were held by the Rev. Hugh Conn in the neighboring house of Thomas Todd in March 1714-15. — — Map (db m68530) HM
On Frederick Road (Maryland Route 144) at Westchester Avenue on Frederick Road.
This house was built in 1789 by George Ellicott, a Quaker, who was a miller, surveyor, merchant and astronomer. He was friend and advisor to America's first black man of science, Benjamin Banneker, who visited here. He also entertained Chief Little . . . — — Map (db m193) HM
On Fork Road at Brinton Road, on the left when traveling west on Fork Road.
Oldest Methodist Congregation in Maryland worshipping in its original location. Organized as Fork Meeting by Robert Strawbridge. Land near “The Forks of the Gunpowder” given in 1771 by James Baker, who converted to Methodism under the . . . — — Map (db m1928) HM
On Reisterstown Road (Route 140) at St. Thomas Lane, on the right when traveling north on Reisterstown Road.
A frontier parish church authorized by Act of Assembly 1742 as “a Chapel of Ease for the Forest Inhabitants” of Saint Paul’s Parish (Baltimore). Reverend Thomas Craddock inducted as first minister January 14, 1745. — — Map (db m2070) HM
On Butler Road (Maryland Route 128) at Waugh Avenue, on the left on Butler Road.
Founded in 1868 for the purpose of promoting the cause of morality and religion by holding camp meetings under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Incorporated 1871 and reincorporated 1884 under present name of the Emory Grove . . . — — Map (db m2066) HM
On Long Green Pike, 0.2 miles north of Hydes Road, on the right when traveling north.
First Roman Catholic Church in (present) Baltimore County founded in 1822. One and one half miles southeast of Sweet Air, one half mile northeast of Manor Road. Building destroyed by fire February 25, 1855. Parish relocated to present site. First . . . — — Map (db m1929) HM
On Belair Road (U.S. 1) at Bradshaw Road, on the right when traveling north on Belair Road.
The old church here standing was built by Edward Day at his own expense and consecrated in 1817 to replace Saint John’s at Joppa Town which, built in 1725, lay in ruins. — — Map (db m1921) HM
On Clyde Avenue at Baltimore Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Clyde Avenue. Reported permanently removed.
This church is a monument to one Civil Wary veteran’s love for his comrades. Charles W. Hull and his wife, Mary A. Hull, gave the land and the building as a memorial to the men who fought to preserve the Union. The deed stipulated that a memorial . . . — — Map (db m115237) HM
On Clyde Avenue just east of Baltimore Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
This church is a monument to one Civil War veteran's love for his comrades. Charles W. Hull and his wife, Mary A. Hull, gave his land and the building as a memorial to the men who fought to preserve the Union. The deed stipulated that a memorial . . . — — Map (db m240355) HM
On Front Street at Morris Street, on the right when traveling south on Front Street.
Lutherville, named for Martin Luther, was founded, 1852, by Dr. John G. Morris, a Lutheran clergyman, as the location of Lutherville Female Seminary. The planned village, centering around the Lutheran Church and Seminary, was surveyed into 118 lots . . . — — Map (db m2298) HM
On Saters Lane, 0.4 miles west of Falls Road (Maryland Route 25), on the right.
Pioneer of the Maryland Baptist denomination. Only eternity, interpeted by God, can make known the moral, mental and spiritual work of the “Mother Church” of the Baptists of Maryland. Founded by Henry Sater 1690–1754. Resolute and . . . — — Map (db m2278) HM
On Falls Road (Maryland Route 25) at Saters Lane, on the left when traveling north on Falls Road.
On land granted by the Fifth Lord Baltimore, Henry Sater, gentleman planter, founded this first church of Baptists in Maryland. To the congregation he deeded a plot and chapel “forever to the end of the world.” — — Map (db m2276) HM
On Old York Road just north of Old York Road, on the right when traveling north.
Established 1750 as a Chapel of Ease in the Parish of St. John’s of Joppa. In a brick chapel 60 x 30 feet, now the transept, was finished on this site “in the fork of the Gunpowder River” at the cost of 790 pounds. In 1770 by Act of the . . . — — Map (db m2054) HM
Near Westchester Avenue, 0.1 miles east of Frederick Road (Maryland Route 144), on the left when traveling east.
The rock looming in this cut here on the #9 Trolley Trial was once liquid magma that squeezed into a fault between pieces of the Earth's crust, then cooled to form Ellicott City granite. In the mighty construction project of 1898, workers . . . — — Map (db m144722) HM
On Associated Way south of Garrison Forest Road, on the left when traveling north.
Dedicated to all Jewish men and women of Maryland who served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America during War and Peace.
—
American Revolution
Civil War
Spanish-American War
World War I
World War II
Korea . . . — — Map (db m131335) WM
On Joppa Road, 0.1 miles east of Honeygo Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.
The site of camp meetings between 1776 and 1807, when a log chapel was built. Methodist leader Francis Asbury visited frequently. — — Map (db m9581) HM
On Belair Road (U.S. 1) 2.4 miles north of Forge Road, on the right when traveling north.
The founder of Perry Hall, Gough owned a 1,300 acre estate that bordered the Gunpowder Falls. He dominated commerce in Northeast Baltimore County during the colonial period. An active supporter of the Methodist church, he sheltered Francis Asbury . . . — — Map (db m9611) HM
On Honeygo Boulevard at East Joppa Road, on the right when traveling west on Honeygo Boulevard.
The founder of Perry Hall, Gough and his wife Prudence sheltered Methodist leaders at the Perry Hall Mansion between 1775 and 1808. — — Map (db m18235) HM
On Sweet Air Road, on the right when traveling east.
A group of people, mostly of German
heritage, banded together to establish the
"Dutch” Lutheran church called St. John's of
Sweet Air. The deed is dated January 20, 1855.
The deed called for approximately a half
acre of ground near the center . . . — — Map (db m213196) HM
Mt. Paran Church was incorporated September 18, 1841. The chruch was called Soldier’s Delight prior to 1841 and that congregation began circa 1776. The oldest legible tombstone is that of Robert Gilchrist, dated October 17, 1767. The oldest known . . . — — Map (db m122235) HM
On Liberty Road (Maryland Route 26) 0.3 miles east of Ward’s Chapel Road.
Built in 1802 by Robert Ward, the tavern served traffic to and from the west. This was an early Methodist preaching place until 1845. Woodstock Seminarians held Catholic Services here in 1875 for Chrome Mine workers of Soldiers Delight. Holdbrook . . . — — Map (db m2098) HM
On Virginia Avenue at East Joppa Road, on the right when traveling south on Virginia Avenue.
Built 1839 and located just West of this marker on land donated by Henry B. Chew of Epsom Estate, the chapel served Towsontown both as church and community center. The chapel was first used by Methodists and became the cradle of Methodism in Towson. . . . — — Map (db m36851) HM
On Joppa Road at Old Court Road, on the right when traveling east on Joppa Road.
First meeting house built on this site 1780. Previously met in Phineas Hunt’s House, still standing on Joppa Road. His grave is nearby. The present church building was erected in 1874. — — Map (db m2281) HM
On Bellona Avenue, 0.1 miles south of Malvern Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Originally constructed as a log cabin in 1833, St. John’s Chapel and land adjacent thereto served the local black community as a house of worship and burying ground. Services had been held in the present chapel since its construction in 1886. The . . . — — Map (db m2286) HM
Near Goucher Road, 0.6 miles east of Dulaney Valley Road (Maryland Route 146), in the median.
Fern Karesh Hurst, Class of 1968, came to Goucher College from Charleston, South Carolina. She graduated with a degree in political science and received a master's degree in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania. An advocate for Goucher . . . — — Map (db m144052) HM
On Dover Road, 0.1 miles east of Hanover Road (Maryland Route 30).
Believed to be the oldest existing Lutheran Congregation in Baltimore County. It was begun as a Union Church in the early 1700’s. The reformed congregation worshiping in the same building. The first recorded communion was in 1794. The first house of . . . — — Map (db m2058) HM
On Southern Maryland Boulevard (Maryland Route 4) at Ferry Landing Road, on the right when traveling south on Southern Maryland Boulevard.
The brick church, dedicated in 1840, is the oldest standing Methodist church in Calvert County. The Calvert Circuit began in 1781 with services in homes. By 1789 this circuit had the largest membership in the United States. Fielder B. Smith gave . . . — — Map (db m3417) HM
On H.G. Trueman Road (Maryland Route 765) 0.8 miles north of Cove Point Road (Maryland Route 497), on the right when traveling north.
Founded, 1684, as a chapel of ease in Christ Church parish and named for Middleham, Yorkshire, England. The site has been used for worship since the founding, but the chapel was rebuilt in 1748. The bell, given by John Holdsworth, is dated 1699. — — Map (db m3436) HM
On Broomes Island Road (Route 264) 0.4 miles south of Solomons Island Road (Route 2 / 4), on the left when traveling south.
One of the original parishes of the Province of Maryland and Calvert County’s oldest continuously worshipping congregation, Christ Church began with a log church standing as early as 1672. Christ Church parish, 1692, included all the land south of . . . — — Map (db m3441) HM
On Hallowing Point Road (Maryland Route 231) 2.8 miles west of Solomons Island Road (Maryland Route 2/4), on the right when traveling west.
On this site stood St. John’s Holiness Church. Dedicated 1900. Removed 1936. Rededicated to Prince Frederick Methodist Cemetery Corporation 1986. — — Map (db m3455) HM
On Charles Street west of Farren Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
Built in 1954. After acquisition by CBL in 1991, it was named after the Solomons Episcopal Rectory and Parish House formerly occupying the site part of which had been used by CBL founder Dr. R. V. Truitt as a research laboratory. . . . — — Map (db m138620) HM
Near Solomons Island Road South (Maryland Route 2) south of Thomas Johnson Road, on the left when traveling south.
The Ark of Hungerford Creek has its origin thousands of miles away in Stettin, Germany, with the construction in 1906 of passenger liner Kronprinzessin Cecilie for the North German Lloyd company. After a number of transatlantic voyages the . . . — — Map (db m138614) HM
On Solomons Island Road (Maryland Route 2) at Southern Maryland Boulevard (Maryland Route 4), on the right when traveling south on Solomons Island Road.
All Saints, one of the original parishes of Maryland, included all the land north of Hunting Creek in Calvert County. The present church was started in 1774 by exchange of tobacco under the rectorship of Reverend Thomas John Clagett, later the first . . . — — Map (db m3470) HM
On Lower Marlboro Road (Maryland Route 262) 0.2 miles Southern Maryland Boulevard (Maryland Route 4), on the right when traveling east.
Authorized in 1692 by the Maryland Assembly the first All Saints (log) Church was built near this site "at the cross-roads of the Severn Ridge Path and the road leading to Coxtown" on land donated by early French Huguenot settler Thomas Hilleary . . . — — Map (db m3471) HM
On 5th Street south of Franklin Street (Maryland Route 404), on the right when traveling south.
This bell was originally located in the First Methodist (M.E.) Church on Market Street. It is believed the bell was installed during its construction in 1867. — — Map (db m137764) HM
On Maryland Route 404 at Maryland Route 328, on the right when traveling west on State Route 404.
Neck or Tuckahoe Neck Meeting House was built in 1802 by members of the Society of Friends who had been Nicholites, a sect that originated in Caroline County. The building was used as a house of worship and as a Friends School until 1897. The . . . — — Map (db m5075) HM
The Quakers, also known as Friends, who met in this Meeting House not only held strong opinions on the abolition of slavery and women’s rights, but they also acted on those beliefs.
After 1790, the Friends who gathered here refused membership to . . . — — Map (db m79354) HM
On Church Street at Maple Avenue, on the right on Church Street.
Established 1748 at nearby Tuckahoe Bridge in Queen Anne's County. Congregation built church here in 1768, but it fell into decline as influence of Methodism grew on Eastern Shore. Under guidance of Rev. Robert William Goldsborough, present Gothic . . . — — Map (db m3393) HM
Refugees from slavery came here for temporary sanctuary.
Under the cover of darkness, they crept across these fields toward the home of Quaker Jacob and Hannah Leverton. The house, a rare, documented Underground Railroad station, still . . . — — Map (db m79303) HM
Mt. Pleasant M. E. Church served the communities of Preston, Elwood, Tanyard, Jonestown and Marsh Creek. The church grew spiritually and financially for many years fostering many local preachers.
Dedicated leaders of the Sunday School, choir, . . . — — Map (db m98434) HM
On Main Street (Maryland Route 331) at Maple Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
Started 1846 around Frazier's Chapel, an early Methodist Church, the land for which was purchased 1797. First called "Snowhill", the name was changed to Preston 1856, in honor of a prominent Baltimore lawyer. Preston was chartered as a town 1892. — — Map (db m3365) HM
On Main Street (Maryland Route 331) at Harmony Road (Maryland Route 16), on the left when traveling south on Main Street.
Built by Rev. Freeborn Garrettson and Captain William Frazier. Early Methodist pastors included Jesse Lee, Joseph Everette and Bishops Francis Asbury and John Emory. Remodeled and named Bethesda 1849. Present church built 1875. Rebuilt 1958. — — Map (db m3362) HM
On Liberty Road (Maryland Route 26) 0.1 miles west of Johnsville Road, on the right when traveling west.
This property
Wesley Chapel
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m144067) HM
On Old Westminster Pike at Sandymount Road, on the right when traveling south on Old Westminster Pike.
An original one acre was deeded in 1827 by Allen and Susannah Baker. Civil War issues divided the congregation in 1856 and Pleasant Grove Church was founded. A log meeting house was replaced in 1867 by a stone structure built of local field stones . . . — — Map (db m36846) HM
On Keysville Bruceville Road when traveling south.
Francis Scott Key
Author of
The Star Spangled Banner
Gave This Ground
For Church And
School Purposes
In 1823
Erected by
The P.O.S. of A. Of Maryland
June 10, 1916 — — Map (db m80086) HM
On Hanover Pike (Maryland Route 30) 0.2 miles north of Manchester Road (Maryland Route 27), on the left when traveling north.
Near here was located a place of worship described as the "Evangelical Lutheran and, according to God's word, reformed, and on both sides, protestant congregations called the German Churche." Continuous worship for 200 years on this site marks it as . . . — — Map (db m3490) HM
On South Main Street (Maryland Route 808) just south of Center Street, on the left when traveling north.
Mount Airy was first settled along what is now Ridgeville Boulevard. With the construction of the Old National Pike (Route 40) in the 1730s, Ridgeville became a rest stop and overnight lodging for travelers on the road. In 1831 the Baltimore and . . . — — Map (db m199372) HM
On South Main Street (Maryland Route 808), on the right when traveling north.
In 1839, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad extended its line through Mount Airy Cut, and a village soon developed here. During the Civil War, Co. K, 14th New Jersey Infantry, guarded the railroad and National Road at Mount Airy. Pine Grove Chapel, . . . — — Map (db m201590) HM
On Strawbridge Lane, 0.1 miles west of Wilt Road, on the left when traveling west.
Bell from
Brick Church
which broke from Stone Chapel circa 1830
becoming one of the founding churches of the
Methodist Protestant movement
In memory of
Rev. James F.W. Talley
July 6, 1940 - December 31, 2016
50 . . . — — Map (db m188473) HM
The Pioneer Preacher of American Methodism purchased from John England, Sr. this house and farm March 2, 1773. A part of England's Chance and Brother's Inheritance, on which he had lived for 13 years since his coming to American 1760. Here he . . . — — Map (db m81102) HM
On Strawbridge Lane, 0.2 miles south of Wilt Road, on the left when traveling west.
Wife of Robert Strawbridge, mother, farmer, and witness for Jesus Christ.
Born in Terryhugan, Ireland. Active in Wesleyan movement immigrated with her husband, and settled on Sams Creek.
Died C. 1791, buried beside her husband in the . . . — — Map (db m188478) HM
First convert lived here 1764–1827, first class met here 1768–1809, first preacher Robert Strawbridge, first bishop Francis Asbury, preached here.
Bicentenary of Methodism, 1962. — — Map (db m3022) HM
On Wakefield Valley Road at New Windsor Road (Maryland Route 31), on the right when traveling east on Wakefield Valley Road.
The first preacher of Methodism in America. He formed at his house (still standing, 1938) one-half mile east of here the first Class and the first Society of American Methodism. He built the first log meeting house (1764) for Methodists in America . . . — — Map (db m3561) HM
On Strawbridge Lane, 0.2 miles west of Wilt Road, on the left when traveling west.
First preacher of Wesleyan Methodism in America
Robert and Elizabeth Piper Strawbridge immigrated from Ireland to this area about 1760. His preaching soon led many to Christ. Her witness won the first convert, John Evans.
Robert . . . — — Map (db m188476) HM
Here Robert Strawbridge formed the first Methodist class in America about 1763. Nearby he built the first log meeting house. Although without official sanction American Methodists first received Baptism and Holy Communion by his hand. Named national . . . — — Map (db m3021) HM
On Marston Road (Maryland Route 407) 0.3 miles east of New Windsor Road (Maryland Route 31), on the right when traveling west.
Built in 1764 by Robert Strawbridge, the first Methodist place of worship erected in America. Successors are Stone Chapel (1783) 3 miles northeast, and Bethel (1821) 1 mile south.
← — — Map (db m3020) HM
On Stone Chapel Road near Bowersox Rd, on the left when traveling north.
Near here on Nicodemus Road stood the farmstead of Andrew Poulson. Robert Strawbridge, founder of Methodism in America, preached there under a massive oak tree and formed the second class of Methodism. He performed baptisms at a nearby stream. . . . — — Map (db m219997) HM
On Sprout Hill Road south of Obrecht Road, on the right when traveling south.
Springfield
Presbyterian Church
Built 1836
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m50193) HM
On Main Street at Church Street, on the left when traveling north on Main Street.
This stone gate was part of the original entrance to
The Strawbridge Home for Boys
Old Sykesville Road, MD Route 32
Sykesville, Maryland
1924-1959
The Strawbridge Home was dedicated to the protection, training and development of young . . . — — Map (db m133832) HM
On Frederick Street south of Memorial Drive / Warehouse Alley.
Settlers like German Protestants along with the French-and English-speaking Roman Catholics brought their unique cultures and their different religious denominations to Taneytown. By the 1750s, the German Reformed Church had organized its . . . — — Map (db m65104) HM
On East Balimore Street, on the right when traveling east.
John Augustus Dempwolf, a Pennsylvania architect, was asked to design Trinity Lutheran Church in 1896. He had previously designed the Taneytown Presbyterian Church in 1883 and the Hagan House and Grocery Store in 1890. Several other prominent . . . — — Map (db m80555) HM
On Quaker Hill Road, 0.2 miles south of Ladiesburg Road, on the left when traveling south.
About 1735 William Farquhar and Ann his wife held a Friends (Quaker) Meeting at his house. In 1771 he deeded two acres of land on which the Meeting House and burying ground are located. Ex-President Hoover’s ancestors were members of this Meeting. — — Map (db m3015) HM
On Brick Meeting House Road, 0.2 miles west of Maryland Route 272, on the right when traveling west.
William Penn set aside lot no. 30 (500 acres) of the “Nottingham Lots” in 1702 for a “common” and site of a “meeting house” as a bold move in the boundary line dispute with Lord Baltimore. It has been continuously used since the first log meeting . . . — — Map (db m189238) HM
On Telegraph Road (Maryland Route 273) at Rosebank Road, on the right when traveling east on Telegraph Road.
40-acre grant from William Penn in 1701 on which present East Nottingham Friends Meeting House built, 1724, with stone addition completed in 1752. Used as American army hospital in 1778. Cross Keys Tavern, built in 1744, was mid-way on Old . . . — — Map (db m145437) HM
On Cayots Corner Road (Maryland Route 310) 0.2 miles east of Augustine Herman Highway (Maryland Route 213), on the left.
Obtained in 1684 from
Augustine Herman
by the religious sect called Labadists. Here they led an austere form of communistic life but disintegrated about
1698. — — Map (db m1566) HM
Thomas Conrey probably had this house built around 1854 with lumber from his mill. In 1876 it came into the possession of Jacob Metz and his wife, Sarah. Mr. Metz was a blacksmith with a business on the corner of Front Street and William Street. . . . — — Map (db m33563) HM
On Cayots Corner Road (Maryland Route 310) at St. Augustine Road North (Maryland Route 342), on the right when traveling east on Cayots Corner Road.
First called “Mannour Chappel” a chapel of ease of North Sassafras Parish. Established in Bohemia Manor in compliance with an act of the Maryland Assembly, 1692. Erected as a separate parish in 1744. — — Map (db m1565) HM
On Harrisville Road at Firetower Road, on the right when traveling south on Harrisville Road.
Founded 1744 by by Samuel Finley, Presbyterian Minister and a native of County Armagh, Ireland. He remained in charge of the academy and church until 1761 when he was chosen President of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University. — — Map (db m145626) HM
On Pleasant Grove Road, on the left when traveling north.
Built in 1819 by Irish immigrants,
who lived along the Susquehanna
River, dug the canals, and piloted
the canal barges. It is the second
oldest Catholic Church in Cecil
County. Since Catholics were not
allowed, at that time, to build
churches . . . — — Map (db m129305) HM
On Glebe Road, 0.3 miles south of Cherry Grove Road, on the left when traveling north.
Granted to Samuel Brocus, whose daughter Susannah married, circa 1700, Edward Veazey. Their son, Colonel John Veazey, Sr., was Chief Military Officer of Cecil County and Justice and Judge for 22 years. His eldest son, Edward, was High Sheriff of . . . — — Map (db m155766) HM
On Grove Neck Road, 0.1 miles west of Pond Neck Road, on the left when traveling west.
Originally owned by Godfrey Harmon, then by James Paul Heath; subsequent to 1760 the home of James Louttit, Sr. and Jr., and Sidney George, Jr., Patriots. Vestrymen of St. Stephen’s Church, and contributors, 1782, to the original endowment of . . . — — Map (db m144248) HM
On Glebe Road near Old Crystal Beach Road, on the right.
Established by Act of Assembly in 1692. The first vestry met January 10, 1693 in the Court House at Ordinary Point. The Parish Church was “dedicated to the honor of Saint Stephen”, March 25, 1706. Rebuilt 1737, 1823 and 1873. — — Map (db m1701) HM
[left plaque]
This memorial preserves the site
of the original vestry house 1731-1737
[center plaque]
This columnbarium given to
the glory of God and
in loving memory of
Delphine S. and Michael Luyn
2002 . . . — — Map (db m155805) HM
On Augustine Herman Highway (Maryland Route 213) at Bohemia Church Road, on the right when traveling south on Augustine Herman Highway.
Founded 1704 by Rev. Thomas Mansell, S.J., one of the earliest permanent Catholic establishments in the English Colonies.
Bohemia Academy Founded 1745 by Rev. Thomas Pulton, S.J. attended by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signed of the . . . — — Map (db m1572) HM
This Bell hung in the Cecilton Chapel belfry for many years. During the winter months it was rung each Sunday morning at service time. When the warm weather returned, services resumed here. With the demolition of the Chapel, the bell was stored . . . — — Map (db m155480) HM
On Grove Neck Road, 0.1 miles east of Pond Neck Road, on the left when traveling west.
The 305 acre farm of William Ward. He gave a tract called “North Levell” on which stands St. Stephen’s Church. His descendant, Henry Veazey Ward, was Consul General for the Republic of Chile. Another, Juliana Veazey Ward, married Dr. . . . — — Map (db m144247) HM
On Gallaher Road at Big Elk Church Road, on the right when traveling north on Gallaher Road.
Big Elk Methodist Episcopal Church,
known as the Big Elk Chapel, is located
at Flounders Corner on a parcel of
land originally part of the New
Munster Tract. In 1877 the Rev. John
France of Cherry Hill Methodist Episcopal Church held a great . . . — — Map (db m146992) HM
On East Main Street, on the right when traveling east.
In the early 20th century, Maryland had no waiting period for issuing marriage licenses, and couples from throughout the Northeast flocked to Elkton—the first county seat south of the State line—where they could be married without delay. Independent . . . — — Map (db m237540) HM
On Bridge Street (Maryland Route 213) 0.1 miles north of Pulaski Highway (U.S. 40), on the right when traveling north.
Built c. 1810–1820 by James Sewall. He was Clerk of Cecil County Court 1805–1841; Brigade Major of Maryland Militia and a Commander at nearby Fort Defiance in War of 1812; one of founders of Trinity Episcopal Church, Elkton in 1832. — — Map (db m145435) HM
On Telegraph Road (Route 273) at Rock Church Road, on the left when traveling east on Telegraph Road.
Founded 1720 in North Milford Hundred, Cecil County, Maryland. First called New Erection on the Branches of Elk River, then Elk River Church, Great Elk, upper Elk and, since 1793, Rock. Present church erected 1761 remodeled in 1844 and 1900. — — Map (db m1764) HM
On Cecil Avenue (Maryland Route 7) 0.3 miles west of Main Street (Maryland Route 272), on the right when traveling east.
George Talbot of Susquehanna Manor renamed North East River, “The Little Shannon.” The iron forges of the Principio Company were located here. Saint Mary Ann’s Parish Church [is] one of the oldest in Cecil County. Russell, one of the . . . — — Map (db m162624) HM
On Main Street (Maryland Route 272) north of West Church Street, on the right when traveling south.
The building, erected 1742, is one of the oldest in Cecil County. The cornerstone bears the initials of the Rector and Vestrymen at that time. Communion vessels, a bible and a book of common prayer presented 1718 by Queen Anne of England still are . . . — — Map (db m226356) HM
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