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1gilroy
Maryland is a very historic state. Shoot we are the site of one of the first colonies ever in the US, even if it is not as famous as Plymouth Rock.
What I wanted to start was a discussion of Maryland's historic sites. Which are good, which are disappointing? Where have you been? Where would you like to go?
What I wanted to start was a discussion of Maryland's historic sites. Which are good, which are disappointing? Where have you been? Where would you like to go?
2pmackey
Great question.
Ft. McHenry (great)
B&O Roundhouse Museum (great)
Antietam Battlefield (great)
C&O Canal (great)
Fort Frederick (I'll say good, but I really like it)
Annapolis (good)
Naval Academy (good)
Ft. McHenry (great)
B&O Roundhouse Museum (great)
Antietam Battlefield (great)
C&O Canal (great)
Fort Frederick (I'll say good, but I really like it)
Annapolis (good)
Naval Academy (good)
3princessgarnet
Monocacy Battlefield (interesting site about a little known Civil War battle)
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's house in Frederick (it was showpiece that he was a man of means at the time he bought in the 1810s)
Maryland Heights Trail on the Maryland state side at Harper's Ferry: awesome tri-state view!!
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's house in Frederick (it was showpiece that he was a man of means at the time he bought in the 1810s)
Maryland Heights Trail on the Maryland state side at Harper's Ferry: awesome tri-state view!!
4gilroy
To throw out a few from the southern part of the state:
Point Lookout (and the associated state park) at the southern tip of St Marys county. It was used as a prisoner of war camp during the civil war. Hundreds died of injury and disease on the site. Halloween sees a few ghost walks and the neat thing, the earthen fort still stands. (It was filled with water during Isabel.)
Also from St Marys: St Mary's City, one of the first settlements in Maryland.
Calvert County has the ferry town of Lower Marlboro.
Point Lookout (and the associated state park) at the southern tip of St Marys county. It was used as a prisoner of war camp during the civil war. Hundreds died of injury and disease on the site. Halloween sees a few ghost walks and the neat thing, the earthen fort still stands. (It was filled with water during Isabel.)
Also from St Marys: St Mary's City, one of the first settlements in Maryland.
Calvert County has the ferry town of Lower Marlboro.
5JimThomson
Most people have never heard of the Hampton Mansion in Lutherville, Md., but it is not only the largest Georgian style mansion in America, it is administered by the National Park Service and is fully restored and open for tours, including the old slave quarters and dairy and barns. It also has a large formal garden of the type popular in the eighteenth century, with Orangerie building and many of the largest trees of their type in the state.
The Ridgely family owned about 19,000 acres of the county and occupied the mansion until 1956. They were members of the Baltimore County Horse Guards, a private militia of slave-holding families that were organized to suppress slave rebellions after the Nat Turner rebellion. It is believed that some of them were present at the attack on the Massachusetts regiments passing through Baltimore on April 19, 1861, at which the first deaths of the Civil War took place.
Because of their influence, wealth and political unreliability, a permanent Union guard-post was established at the mansion during the war to keep an eye on the family and to prevent any organized support for the Rebellion.
It's very nice and worth a visit. It is not far from exit 28, of the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) and is called the Hampton National Historic Site.
The Ridgely family owned about 19,000 acres of the county and occupied the mansion until 1956. They were members of the Baltimore County Horse Guards, a private militia of slave-holding families that were organized to suppress slave rebellions after the Nat Turner rebellion. It is believed that some of them were present at the attack on the Massachusetts regiments passing through Baltimore on April 19, 1861, at which the first deaths of the Civil War took place.
Because of their influence, wealth and political unreliability, a permanent Union guard-post was established at the mansion during the war to keep an eye on the family and to prevent any organized support for the Rebellion.
It's very nice and worth a visit. It is not far from exit 28, of the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) and is called the Hampton National Historic Site.
