Tour highlights include Davis’ Lounge, which served local black watermen in 1940s and the Seafarer's Yacht Club, a site that served as a school in 1918 and became Seafarers Yacht Club in 1967, founded by a group of black men who banded together in the face of discrimination to found the club.
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North Brentwood was Prince George’s County’s first African-American incorporated town. Marie “Sis” Walls ran a tavern from the 1950s until 1970, a late-night destination for Black performers, such as Pearl Bailey and Duke Ellington.
A journey of faith and freedom on a driving tour through 300 years of African-American history of the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland encompassing cemeteries, homes, churches, schools and more.
San Domingo School was known as Sharptown Colored School and Prince Hall Masons Unity Lodge No. 73. A historic Rosenwald School built in 1919, it remained in use as a school until 1957 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (2007)
This mural honors two late Supreme Court justices: Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It is located directly across from the Anne Arundel County Courthouse.
This marker memorializes Rev. Dr. Vernon Nathaniel Dobson, a civil rights leader who marched from Selma to Montgomery with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Crabbing demonstrations.
Depicts history of the Friendsville area and surrounding Youghiogheny River corridor, family genealogy, Native American archaeology and a collection of stories, photographs and artifacts. This is the National Headquarters for the Friend Family Association.
On April 26, 1837, St. John the Evangelist became the first consecrated Catholic Church in the Diocese of Baltimore.
Hands-on history; experiences for children of all ages. County park: manor house (c. 1790), garden, log cabin, carriage collection, blacksmith shop and icehouse. NRHP.