ROAD TRIPS: DISCOVER THE STORY OF FREEDOM The Pursuit of Religious Freedom In 1632, nearly a century and a half before the American Revolution and more than two centuries before the Civil War, the first English colonists arrived in Maryland in pursuit of another type of freedom— the freedom to practice their own religious beliefs. Dating back to the mid-17th century, Historic St. Mary’s City near the southern tip of Maryland’s western shore came to be known as “the birthplace of religious tolerance” in North America and later as the state’s first capital. The path of these early settlers can be followed along the Religious Freedom Byway beginning at Port Tobacco, a historic Potapoco Native American village by the banks of the Potomac River, where Jesuit priest Andrew White established a missionary outpost. Accessible off the Port Tobacco Loop along Maryland Route 6, Route 425 and Route 224, the Byway continues and includes other intriguing points of interest. Pictured Clockwise: Bucktown Village Store on The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Scenic Byway, Bucktown; Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center, Church Creek; Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park, Baltimore Plan Your Trip at: VisitMaryland.org/driving-tours DESTINATION MARYLAND ✥ 27
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