whose beliefs included abolition. Less than six months after her sentencing, Queen Anne’s County leaders, including Hopper and Carmichael, successfully petitioned the Governor for her pardon in May 1856. This case illustrates the complicated nature of relations among slave holders, their servants in bondage and free African Americans. The site is a private residence near Queenstown and is not open to the public. storiesofthechesapeake.org a free black man who married the sister of Frederick Douglass. One son worked as a bay waterman in the 1800s. cbmm.org Town named in honor of 17 African-American Civil War soldiers who returned home to purchase land. tourtalbot.org Sudlersville QUA E-22 Dudley’s Chapel Marker 1110 Benton Corner Rd, 21668 410-928-3406 Among the oldest Methodist churches in the country. Preaching station for bishops Cooke and Ashbury. historicqac.org/historic-site/dudleys-chapel Worton KEN D-21 African American Schoolhouse Museum 11730 St. James-Newtown Rd, 21678 • 410-810-1416 One-room schoolhouse built in 1890. Showplace of 19th-and early-20th-century photographs, oral histories and artifacts from Kent County’s African-American community. kentcounty.com/attractions/ museums/#aaschoolhouse Charles Sumner GAR Hall 206 S Queen St, 21620 410-778-3222 Built in 1908, one of only two African-American Civil War veterans’ halls standing in the United States. A Civil War Trails exhibit interprets the hall. kentcounty.com/attractions/ museums/sumner-hall Salisbury WIC K-24 Chipman Cultural Center 327 Broad St, 21801 410-860-9290 Located in the oldest standing African-American church on the Delmarva, circa 1838, the center features displays and events highlighting the area’s rich African-American heritage. chipmancenter.org Taylors Island DOR J-19 New Revived Church 4350 Smithville Rd, 21669 410-228-2110 The New Revived United Methodist Church, once known as Je erson Methodist Episcopal Church, was established in Smithville in 1876. Before the Civil War, Methodist Camp Meetings were popular in the area. harriettubmanbyway. org/new-revived-united-methodist-church Snow Hill WOR M-25 Mount Zion One-Room School Museum 117 Ironshire St, 21863 410-632-0669 Authentic one-room school, built in 1869, and used as a school until 1931. furnacetown.org/mt-zion-oneroom-schoolhouse Unionville TAL H-20 St. Michaels TAL H-20 Unionville Unionville & Tunis Mills Rds, 21601 • 410-770-8000 Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum 213 North Talbot St, 21663 410-745-2916 Extensive maritime exhibits, plus a white clapboard house once owned by Peter Mitchell, UNIONVILLE MARKER Unionville Maryland’s Underground Railroad & African-American Heritage Travel Guide 37
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