Somerset

Princess Anne, MD

During the French and Indian War, the British expelled some 11,500 Acadians from the Canadian Maritimes, dispersing them among the North...

Venton, MD

Bloomsbury Site of Home of Levin Winder Levin Winder, 1757-1819, was a Lt. Colonel in the American Revolution and a Major General in the...

Princess Anne, MD

Church of God This Pentecostal Denomination with headquarters in Cleveland, Tenn.

Princess Anne, MD

Col. George Gale 1671-1712 About 2 miles southwest is "Tusculum" on Monie Creek, plantation where Gale lived and lies buried.

Crisfield, MD

From April 6 through May 10, 1938, 600 crab pickers, predominantly Black women, went on strike from Crisfield's packing houses.

Crisfield, MD

Center of the Chesapeake Bay seafood industry in the late 19th/early 20th century, known as the "Seafood Capital of the World.

Westover, MD

First Site of Washington Academy A forerunner of Washington High School, the academy was founded and built, 1767, under the proprietary...

Oriole, MD

Gen. Arnold Elzey C.S.A. 1818-1871 Born at "Elmwood", and a graduate of West Point, Arnold Elzey (Jones) entered the Civil War, April...

Princess Anne, MD

Historic Boxwood Gardens Princess Anne This southeast corner of Somerset Avenue, originally Bridge Street, and Washington Street, first...

Crisfield, MD

J. Millard Tawes 1894-1979 Born in Crisfield.

Deal Island, MD

Joshua Thomas 1776-1853 Born Potato Neck, Somerset County.

Lawsonia, MD

Make Peace Patented for 150 acres 1678 to John Roach.

Princess Anne, MD

Manokin Presbyterian Church One of five churches organized by the Rev. Francis Makemie in 1683.

Princess Anne, MD

The village of the Manonoakin Indians, a subtribe of the Pocomoke Nation, was located two miles southwest of here in Indian Neck.

Oaksville, MD

Established 1949. One of the few surviving African American sandlot baseball fields.

Princess Anne, MD

Founded 1733. By an act of Maryland's General Assembly, 25 acres of the Beckford Plantation were purchased to establish Princess Anne.

Pocomoke City, MD

"Rehoboth" ("There is room") 5 miles 1000 acres surveyed 1665 for Col. William Stevens, Member of Governor's Council, through whose...

Upper Fairmount, MD

Saint Stephen's Church Coventry Parish Established by the Maryland General Assembly, June, 1751, near Cottingham's Ferry, Worcester County.

Princess Anne, MD

Samuel Chase 17 April 1741 - 19 June 1811 Native of Somerset County Signer of the Declaration of Independence 1776 Judge of the Baltimore...

Princess Anne, MD

Samuel Chase 17 April 1741 19 June 1811 Signer of the Declaration of Independence Judge of the General Court of MD.

Ewell, MD

Smith Island Maryland's only remaining inhabited offshore island group.

Princess Anne, MD

Somerset County Circuit Courthouse 1904 The Courthouse was designed in the georgian revival style by architects Frank E. and Henry R....

Princess Anne, MD

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Somerset Parish Parish established in 1692.

Princess Anne, MD

University of Maryland Eastern Shore Princess Anne Academy was established on September 13, 1886, to provide higher education for African...

Crisfield, MD

Ye Old St. Peters Methodist Church Founded 1782 Joshua Thomas "Parson of the Islands" preached his first sermon in this church.