19-century plantation house overlooking C&O Canal and Potomac River. Home of the youngest of Stonewall Jackson's Civil War officers. A National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site
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This exhibit panel provides information about an interracial tennis match played here in 1948, which, was held to protest the park's segregationist policies. A nearby historic, "Breaking the Back of Segregation," lists the names of the participants.
Protests in the summer of 1960 by Howard University students, organized as the Nonviolent Action Group, led to the integration of the Glen Echo Amusement Park in 1961. Legal battles over the carousel sit-in continued until 1964.
Naturalistic habitats for mammals, birds, reptiles native to North, Central, and South America and Australia. One of the finest small zoos in the country and it's free.
Family camping near St. Michaels on Choptank River headwaters; big rigs welcome. Free new WIFI, CATV, large group club area and gospel concerts.
Homemade comfort food, just off the Western MD Rail Trail, offering spectacular views of the C&O Canal and Potomac River.
Located on 262 acres, the home of Col. Isaac Handy and his wife Anne (1741) is surrounded by nature trails that encompass the different ecosystems of the Eastern Shore.
Launch a boat on the Susquehanna River, view the massive Conowingo Dam, fish or sight bald eagles, a great blue heron rookery and other birds of prey.
Mature forests, rare plants and bald eagles abound in the dramatic woodlands that stretches from the Potomac River to Mattawoman Creek.