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|   Site of Frazier's Chapel-Preston, MD
in Maryland Historical Markers Frazier's Chapel-Built by Rev. Freeborn Garrettson and Captain William Frazier. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/11/2019 last visited: 09/28/2021 |
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|  Immanuel Lutheran - Preston, MD
in Lutheran Churches Immanuel Lutheran Church serves Preston, Maryland. posted by:  Eagle1977 location: Maryland date approved: 01/10/2013 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE1.4 km |  Hog Island School 1879 - Preston MD
in Former Schools Hog Island School was moved to the Linchester Mill Campus and restored in 2012 by the Caroline County Historical Society. At the ribbon cutting ceremony, the Society reported that the building had been moved from Frazier Neck. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
 view gallerySE1.4 km |  Bell Tower at Hog Island School-1879 - Preston MD
in Bell Towers The bell tower on the Hog Island School is above the front door. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
 view gallerySE1.4 km |  Hog Island School 1879-One Room School House - Preston MD
in One-Room Schoolhouses Hog Island School was moved to the Linchester Mill Campus and restored in 2012 by the Caroline County Historical Society. At the ribbon cutting ceremony, the Society reported that the building had been moved from Frazier Neck. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/05/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
 view gallerySE1.4 km |  Linchester Mill - Preston MD
in Wikipedia Entries Linchester Mill is a historic grist mill located at Preston in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. The original mill was built at the site in about 1682; the current structure was erected in approximately 1840, operations ceased in 1974. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
 view gallerySE1.4 km |  Linchester Mill - Preston MD
in U.S. National Register of Historic Places The Linchester Mill is a key to both the understanding of early milling technologies and to bygone patterns of life in rural Eastern Shore community. The last technological update to the mill’s machinery was 1930. The mill ceased operation in 1974. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/05/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
 view gallerySE1.4 km |  Linchester Mill - Preston MD
in Official Local Tourism Attractions The mill once was the nation's oldest running business and sold grain to George Washington's army during the Revolutionary War. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
 view gallerySE1.4 km |  Linchester Mill Living Dangerously - Preston, MD
in Underground Railroad Sites Quakers and free blacks who lived near the mill secretly helped freedom seekers pass through the area. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 02/11/2020 last visited: 10/28/2021 |
 view gallerySE1.4 km |  Linchester Mill-Living Dangerously - Preston, MD
in Signs of History Quakers and free blacks who lived near the mill secretly helped freedom seekers pass through the area. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
 view gallerySE1.4 km |  Linchester Mill-Living Dangerously - Preston, MD
in Civil Rights Memorials Quakers and free blacks who lived near the mill secretly helped freedom seekers pass through the area. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
 view gallerySE1.4 km |  The Underground Railroad Seed of War - Preston, MD
in Civil War Discovery Trail Sites Among the factors that contributed to the coming of the Civil War was the increasing animosity between Southerners and Northerners over the issue of slavery. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 01/20/2020 last visited: 10/08/2021 |
 view gallerySE1.4 km | The Underground Railroad Seed of War - Preston, MD in Underground Railroad Sites The operation of the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape to the free North and Canada, which was supported by Northern anti-slavery societies, was a sharp thorn in the sides of slaveholders. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 02/11/2020 last visited: 10/28/2021 |
 view gallerySE1.4 km | The Underground Railroad-Seed of War - Preston, MD in Civil Rights Memorials The operation of the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape to the free North and Canada, which was supported by Northern anti-slavery societies, was a sharp thorn in the sides of slaveholders. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/05/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
 view gallerySE1.4 km | Linchester-Preston, MD in Maryland Historical Markers Linchester Circa 1681-Since the establishment of Hunting Creek Grist Mill prior to 1681, a mill on this site has served farmers. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/12/2019 last visited: 09/28/2021 |
 view gallerySE1.4 km | Linchester Mill-Preston, MD in Signs of History Linchester Mill-A mill has been here for 250 years. The braced-frame mill was built in 1827. It had two structural additions. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/12/2019 last visited: 09/25/2021 |
 view gallerySE1.8 km | Leverton House Finding Safe Haven - Preston, MD in Underground Railroad Sites Refugees from slavery came here for temporary sanctuary. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 02/11/2020 last visited: 10/28/2021 |
 view gallerySE1.8 km | Leverton House-Finding Safe Haven - Preston, MD in Signs of History Refugees from slavery came here for temporary sanctuary. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/05/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
 view gallerySE1.8 km | Leverton House-Finding Safe Haven - Preston, MD in Civil Rights Memorials Refugees from slavery came here for temporary sanctuary. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/05/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
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| Mt. Pleasant Cemetery-Dangerous Rendezvous - Preston MD in Signs of History After Quakers sold their meetinghouse to the local black community in 1849, the new owners established Mt. Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church. The original church building has since burned, but the modern day congregation still uses the cemetery. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
 view galleryNW1.9 km | Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Dangerous Rendezvous - Preston, MD in Underground Railroad Sites After Quakers sold their meetinghouse to the local black community in 1849, the new owners established Mt. Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 02/11/2020 last visited: 10/28/2021 |
 view galleryNW1.9 km | Mt. Pleasant Cemetery-Dangerous Rendezvous - Preston MD in Civil Rights Memorials Laws restricted blacks from meeting in groups and a group of slaves gathering in a home or in the woods might arouse suspicion. But they did gather at cemeteries---a rare respite amidst the constant oversight that prevailed in the 19th century. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
 view galleryNW1.9 km | Mt. Pleasant M. E. Church 1864 - 1962 - Preston MD in Signs of History 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/05/2022 |
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| Choptank-Preston, MD in Maryland Historical Markers Choptank-Before 1679, Indians had a settlement here. Present village stands on parts of tracts once known as Paradise, Belmont, Huntington and Gore. Community was "Leonard's Wharf" c. 1855 and "Medford's Wharf" later. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/11/2019 last visited: 09/28/2021 |
 view gallerySW5 km | Escape from Poplar Neck - Preston MD in Civil Rights Memorials Harriet Tubman’s parents, Rit and Ben Ross, moved to Poplar Neck in 1847. Her father worked as a lumber foreman on Dr. Anthony C. Thompson’s 2,200 heavily forested acres. Harriet probably made her first escape from this place in 1849. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/04/2022 |
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