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|   Faith Community UMC Church-Living a Double Life - East New Market, MD
in Underground Railroad Sites During the 1840s and 1850s, the locals knew Reverend Samuel Green as a literate, highly respected Methodist Episcopal preacher and community leader. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 02/11/2020 last visited: 10/28/2021 |
 view gallerySW1.4 km |  Faith Community UMC Church-Living a Double Life - East New Market, MD
in Civil Rights Memorials Unknown to many, Rev. Green had a second life. For years, he served as an Underground Railroad agent, secretly aiding Harriet Tubman and freedom-seeking refugees. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/04/2022 |
 view gallerySW1.4 km |  Faith Community United Methodist Church - East New Market MD
in Methodist Churches Now known as Faith Community United Methodist Church, this church
is the second structure to house this still-active congregation.
African-Americans regarded southern white ministers as part of the system of slavery. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/04/2022 |
 view gallerySW1.4 km |  Faith Community UMC Church-Living a Double Life - East New Market, MD
in Signs of History During the 1840s and 1850s, the locals knew Reverend Samuel Green as a literate, highly respected Methodist Episcopal preacher and community leader. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/04/2022 |
 view gallerySW8.4 km |  Linkwood-Salem Vol. Fire Co. Station 61
in Firehouses A volunteer fire station in Linkwood, Maryland. posted by:  bluesnote location: Maryland date approved: 08/10/2021 last visited: never |
 view gallerySW8.4 km |  Linkwood-Salem Vol. Fire Co. Station 61 Flagpole - Linkwood, MD
in Nautical Flag Poles A nautical flagpole at the Linkwood-Salem Volunteer fire station in Linkwood, Maryland. posted by: bluesnote location: Maryland date approved: 08/10/2021 last visited: never |
 view gallery NW9.3 km
| Choptank Landing Escape from Poplar Neck - Preston, MD in Underground Railroad Sites While the Choptank River could pose a troublesome barrier to those without a boat, others used the river as a path to freedom.
Josiah Bailey, an enslaved logger and shipbuilder, rowed six miles up the river. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 02/11/2020 last visited: 10/28/2021 |
 view galleryNW9.3 km | Escape from Poplar Neck - Preston, MD in Underground Railroad Sites 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. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 02/11/2020 last visited: 10/28/2021 |
 view galleryNW9.3 km | Choptank Landing-Escape from Poplar Neck - Preston, MD in Civil Rights Memorials While the Choptank River could pose a troublesome barrier to those without a boat, others used the river as a path to freedom. Josiah Bailey, an enslaved logger and shipbuilder, rowed six miles up the river. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/04/2022 |
 view galleryNW9.3 km | Choptank Landing-Escape from Poplar Neck - Preston, MD in Signs of History While the Choptank River could pose a troublesome barrier to those without a boat, others used the river as a path to freedom. Josiah Bailey, an enslaved logger and shipbuilder, rowed six miles up the river. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 10/04/2022 last visited: 10/04/2022 |
 view galleryNW9.3 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 |
 view galleryNW9.3 km | Escape from Poplar Neck - Preston MD in Signs of History 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 |
 view galleryNW9.3 km |  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 |
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| 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 galleryN10.5 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 galleryN10.5 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 galleryN10.5 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 galleryN10.5 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 galleryN10.5 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 galleryN10.5 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 galleryN10.5 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 galleryN10.5 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 galleryN10.5 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 galleryN10.5 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 galleryN10.5 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 |
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