African-American Heritage Sites
Historic St. Mary’s City
18751 Hogaboom Lane, Visitor Center, St. Mary’s City, MD 20686
(240) 895-4990
When the first permanent English settlement in Maryland was established at St. Mary’s City, Mathias de Souza, an indentured servant of African descent, was there at…
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Point Lookout State Park, Civil War Museum & Lighthouse
11175 Point Lookout Road, Scotland, MD 20687
(301) 872-5688
National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site. During the Civil War Era, Point Lookout was first a hospital for wounded Union soldiers and then…
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Sotterley Plantation
44300 Sotterley Lane, Hollywood, MD 20636
(301) 373-2280
National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site. Sotterley’s 1830s slave cabin exemplifies typical slave housing in the Tidewater region yet also features unique architectural…
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African-American Monument and Freedom Park
21744 South Coral Drive, Lexington Park, MD 20653
(301) 737-5447
The African-American Monument is located on the grounds of Freedom Park. It was dedicated on July 29, 2000 and recognizes African Americans and Aftrican-American organizations that…
Cardinal Gibbons Park
48913 Seaside View Road, Ridge, MD 20680
(301) 475-4200
Established in 1924 by Jesuit Father LaFarge as a vocational institute under the auspices of the Baltimore Diocese, and operated by educators from the Tuskegee Institute,…
Drayden African-American Schoolhouse
18287 Cherryfield Road, Drayden, MD 20630
(301) 994-1471
One of the best preserved African-American schoolhouses in the country, the one-room schoolhouse still occupies its original site and has not been significantly altered. Built circa…
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Old Jail Museum
11 Courthouse Drive, Leonardtown, MD 20650
(301) 475-2467
National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site. The Old Jail was built in 1858 and was in use through the early 1940s. Runaway slaves…
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“Pathway through History” Markers
21550 Willows Road, John G. Lancaster Park, Lexington Park, MD 20653
Wayside interpretive signs mark milestones and challenges experienced by the African American community from the end of the Civil War up to World War II. (See…
St. Clement’s Island Museum
38370 Point Breeze Road, Coltons Point, MD 20626
(301) 769-2222
Mathias de Sousa, cited as the first individual of African descent to settle in Maryland, was part of the first group of 140 colonists who landed…
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St. Peter Claver Church & McKenna Hall Museum
16922 St. Peter Claver Church Road, St. Inigoes, MD 20684
(301) 872-5460
When the original 1918 church burned in 1934, Philip Frohman, architect of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., designed the new church which was completed in…
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United States Colored Troops Memorial Monument
21550 Willows Road, John G. Lancaster Park, Lexington Park, MD 20653
(301) 737-5447
The monument is dedicated in grateful tribute to the United States Colored Troops of St. Mary’s County and honors the two USCT soldiers from St. Mary’s…
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