Brunswick FRE D-12 Brunswick Railroad Museum 40 W Potomac St, 21716 301-834-7100 Exhibits feature the contributions of African Americans to the development of the B&O Railroad in Brunswick. brunswickmuseum.org economy, the British o ered freedom to the enslaved African Americans. None of the freedom seekers were recaptured. nps.gov/fowa Frederick FRE C-13 Clinton PRG H-16 African American History Walking Tour 121 South Bentz St, 21701 301-663-1188 Learn about some of the county’s outstanding sites, people and events through a tour of the local African-American community’s historical, cultural and civic center. 90-minute tours start at the Roger Brooke Taney House in Downtown Frederick. frederickhistory.org/programs Best Farm – L’Hermitage 4801 Urbana Pike, 21704 301-662-3513 The farm, now part of Monocacy National Battlefi eld, was once part of a 748-acre plantation known as L’Hermitage. Established by the Vincendieres, a family of French planters from the Caribbean, this plantation was worked by 50 to 90 African-American indentured persons in the 18th and 19th centuries. At least two of those slaves fl ed for freedom. The Best family began farming the property in the 1830s. One of their slaves escaped in 1850. https://www.nps.gov/ mono/learn/historyculture/ hermitage.html Laboring Sons Memorial Ground Chapel Aly & 5th St, 21701 301-600-4047 Established in 1851 by the Benefi cial Society of Laboring Sons of Frederick City, the City of Frederick acquired the burial ground in 1950 and placed a park on the site. Among those buried here are six Civil War veterans who served in colored regiments. In 1999, protests were responsible for the successful change from park to memorial. https://www.visitfrederick. org/listing/laboring-sons-memorial-ground/286/ National Museum of Civil War Medicine 48 E Patrick St, 21701 301-695-1864, 1-800-564-1864 Immersion exhibits illustrate the story of patients, caregivers and medical innovations of the Civil War; includes a rare collection of Civil War medical artifacts. Guided tours, educational programs. CivilWarMed.org Poplar Hill on His Lordship’s Kindness 7606 Woodyard Rd, 20735 301-856-0358 Originally part of a land grant from Charles Calvert, third Lord Baltimore, to Colonel Henry in 1703. Programs and tours describe the site’s enslaved African Americans and their families who remained in the area following emancipation. The current mansion was built between 1785 and 1787 by Colonel Henry’s great grandson, Robert Darnall, replacing an earlier residence constructed for his father, Henry Darnall III. poplarhillonhlk.com Germantown MON E-13 Button Farm Living History Center 16820 Black Rock Rd, 20874 301-916-7090 Maryland’s only living history center depicting 19th-century slave plantation life and the heroic story of the Underground Railroad through unique living history experiences. buttonfarm.org Fort Washington PRG H-15 Mouth of Swan Creek Escape Site Fort Washington Park 13551 Fort Washington Rd, 20744 • 301-690-1385 A mass escape of enslaved African Americans occurred o Diggs Point at the mouth of Swan Creek in early September 1814. The group escaped to a moored British ship that had arrived from Alexandria, Virginia, which was occupied during the War of 1812. In order to undermine the local Glenn Dale PRG F-16 Dorsey Chapel 10704 Brookland Rd, 20769 240-264-3415 Built in 1900 as a Methodist church, it served as the social and spiritual center of Brookland, an African-American farming community. pgelegantsettings. com/3154/Dorsey-Chapel JAMES W.C. PENNINGTON (1807-1870) , a teacher and author most famous for his 1850 autobiography, The Fugitive Blacksmith . He was born a slave, but fl ed from a job in Hagerstown in 1827, settled in Connecticut and became famous for his anti-slavery speeches and writings. 14 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide
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