BENJAMIN BANNEKER (1731–1806) , a freeborn scientist and mathematician, who grew up on a farm near Ellicott City, helped conduct a 1791 survey of the land that would become Washington, D.C. He also published six almanacs, fi lled with information on tides and eclipses, which he calculated himself. The Star-Spangled Banner Flag House 844 E Pratt St, 21202 410-837-1793 Explores the role of African Americans in the early 19th-century Baltimore and the War of 1812. fl aghouse.org Thurgood Marshall Statue Edward A. Garmantz Building and U.S. Courthouse, Pratt & Sharp Sts, 21201 Statue honors Baltimore native and fi rst African-American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall. baltimoremd.com/ monuments/thurgood.html Union Baptist Church 1219 Druid Hill Ave, 21217 410-523-6880 Became the central point in the struggle for civil rights, thanks to the e orts of its leader, the Rev. Dr. Harvey Johnson. unionbaptistmd.org/ contact_us.aspx The Walters Art Museum 600 N Charles St, 21201 410-547-9000 Home to Charles Henri-Joseph Cordier’s bronze and gold sculpture of an African woman visiting Paris in 1851 (African Venus), one of the museum’s best-known items. thewalters.org Bel Air HAR B-19 Columbia HOW D-16 Hays-Heighe House 401 Thomas Run Rd, 21015 • 443-412-2539 In 1860, Sam Archer escaped enslavement by Thomas Hays on this property. Archer escaped to Pennsylvania, and his experiences are documented by William Still in his book, The Underground Railroad . Archer Hays built the dwelling in 1808, and Thomas Archer Hays, Sr. inherited this farm and his father’s chattel, including his enslaved Africans. harford.edu/community/ hays-heighe-house Howard County Center of African-American Culture 5434 Vantage Point Rd, 21044 410-715-1921 Preserving the history of African-American culture in Howard County. The center includes more than 4,000 books, a children’s library, and a research and reading library. hccaac.org Darlington HAR A-20 Hosanna School Museum 2424 Castleton Rd, 21034 410-457-4161 The fi rst of three schools to be built in Harford County in 1867 by the Freedmen’s Bureau. The building of schools was mandated by state law across all of the former slave-holding states for the purpose of educating the recently freed African Americans. The property was originally owned by a free African-American man, Cupid Paca. hosannaschool museum.org Catonsville Oblate Sisters of Mount Providence 701 Gun Rd, 21227 410-242-8500 BCO D-17 Founded in 1828, the Oblate Sisters of Mount Providence were the fi rst successful Roman Catholic sisterhood established by women of African descent. Elizabeth Lange (later Mother Mary Lange) and Maria Balas started a school, St. Francis Academy, to teach and care for African-American children. oblatesisters.com Davidsonville AAR F-17 Roedown Farm 3856 Wayson Rd, 21035 Born enslaved in the early 1820s at Roedown, William Parker later made a daring escape at age 17. Settling in 24 Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide
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