Parkers Creek Heritage Trail

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Indigenous People in the Vicinity of Parkers Creek

Native people used the land we now call Southern Maryland during several periods ...

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TIME PERIOD

11,000 BC-1600 AD

KEYWORDS

Indigenous people

Maps and story: Colonial-era Land Patents Near Parkers Creek

This story map explores patents and the politics of religion in colonial Maryland ...

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TIME PERIOD

17th and 18th centuries

KEYWORDS

Colonial Establishment

Maps only: Colonial-era Land Patents Near Parkers Creek

Use this interactive map to explore the land patents of the Colonial Era ...

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TIME PERIOD

17th and 18th centuries

KEYWORDS

Colonial Establishment

William Parker, 1604-1673: Parker's Clifts & Parkers Creek

William Parker was a mover and shaker, a sponsor of Puritan settlement in Virginia and Maryland ...

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TIME PERIOD

1650s

KEYWORDS

Colonial Establishment, Parker Family (Colonist)

Sampson Waring, Puritan Activist, and Warrington

Sampson Waring was born in England in 1616, emigrated to Virginia in 1643, to Maryland in about 1650.

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TIME PERIOD

1616-1692

KEYWORDS

Colonial Establishment. Waring family

Gary's Chance: Events at the Property, 1651-1672

John Gary, English Puritan arrived in 1651, property visited by Quaker founder Geo. Fox in 1672 . . .

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TIME PERIOD

1651-1672

KEYWORDS

Colonial Establishment, Gary family, Sharp family

Holly Hill History

The ACLT purchased the 400-acre Holly Hill property from the Turner family in 2017 ...

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TIME PERIOD

1660-2000

KEYWORDS

Dare family, Turner family, Farming

Holly Hill Log Barn

The Dare family owned Holly Hill for most of the 19th century...The log barn was probably built in the 1840s or '50s ...

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TIME PERIOD

1830s-present

KEYWORDS

Dare family, Barns

Holly Hill Barn Preservation

ACLT began planning the preservation of the log barn in 2017, which consisted of three phases ...

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TIME PERIOD

2017-2021

KEYWORDS

Barns

Governors Run: Farm to Market, Schooners, Steamboats, & More

1700s to 1871, goods by sailing ship; 1871-1925, by steamboat . . .

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TIME PERIOD

1700s-1930s

KEYWORDS

Fisheries & Maritime, Steamboats, Cottage Community

Hance-Chesley Cemetery

This cemetery was established by two families joined by marriage ...

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TIME PERIOD

1812-1868

KEYWORDS

Hance family, Chesley family, Cemeteries

George W. and Hannah Brooke Dorsey: landowners, farm family, and physician

George Washington Dorsey was a physician and farmer who owned several properties ...

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TIME PERIOD

1820-1960

KEYWORDS

Dorsey family, Farming

Joseph and Arabella Wallace: Civil War Soldier and Land-owning Farmer

Joseph Wallace was born south of Parkers Creek in the late 1830s. During the Civil War ...

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TIME PERIOD

1830-1909

KEYWORDS

Wallace family, Civil War Soldiers, Farming, Black History

William H. and Suddie Commodore: A Parkers Creek Family

William H. Commodore was an African American farmer, married to Suddie Commodore ...

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TIME PERIOD

1850s-1940s

KEYWORDS

Commodore family, Civil War Soldiers, Farming, Black History

Old Mill Bridge & Mills on Parkers Creek

About a dozen wooden posts barely visible above the water are all that remain ...

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TIME PERIOD

18th, 19th, and 20th centuries

KEYWORDS

Mills (gristmills, sawmills), Turner family

David and Susan J. Parker: Civil War veteran and farm family south of Parkers Creek

David Parker was an African American farmer and Civil War veteran ...

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TIME PERIOD

1830-1931

KEYWORDS

Parker family, Farming, Civil War Soldiers, Black History

John W. Scales Jr., Parkers Creek farmer active in community life

John Walter Scales Jr. and his wife Sarah Gross Scales were African American farmers ...

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TIME PERIOD

1870-1950

KEYWORDS

Scales family, Farming, Black History

Sawmills Near Parkers Creek in the 19th and 20th Centuries

In southern Maryland, the extractive industry of harvesting, milling, and shipping timber ...

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TIME PERIOD

1880-1920

KEYWORDS

Mills (gristmills, sawmills), Turner family, Bell family, Wallace family, Parran family, Commodore family, Black History

Daniel Wallace, Farmer Who Lost All During the Great Depression

Daniel Wallace (1877-1936) was one of eight children in the family of the Civil War veteran Joseph Wallace ...

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TIME PERIOD

1870-1940

KEYWORDS

Wallace family, Ward family, Farming

Steamboat Wharf at Dare’s, 1885-1922

Dare’s wharf was constructed in 1889 and became a regular steamboat stop the following year . . .

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TIME PERIOD

1885-1922

KEYWORDS

Dare's Wharf, Steamboats, Maritime

Benefit Societies Organized by Black Residents Near Parkers Creek

The Parkers Creek area was home to three benefit societies that served Black residents . . .

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TIME PERIOD

1890-1920

KEYWORDS

Mutual Benefit Societies, Black History

James L. and Ella Parker: landowning farmers south of Parkers Creek

James L. "Jimmy" Parker was the son of David Parker, an African American farmer and Civil War veteran ...

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TIME PERIOD

1875-1960

KEYWORDS

Parker family, Farming, Black History

Lemuel & Annie Wallace: Farm, House, & Family

Lemuel Wallace was an African American farmer born in the early 1850s. He and his wife ...

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TIME PERIOD

1850-1940

KEYWORDS

Wallace family, Farming, Black History

Alonzo Bell, landowning farmer on Parkers Creek

Alonzo Bell (ca 1850-ca 1915) was an African American farmer, active in the Parkers Creek community ...

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TIME PERIOD

1850-1915

KEYWORDS

Bell family, Farming, Black History

Yoe Family History

Stephen Yeo/Yoe, born circa1638 in England, died circa 1667 in Calvert County ...

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TIME PERIOD

1630-present; emphasis 20th century

KEYWORDS

Yoe family, Farming

Delois Harrod Johnson and Phyllis Harrod Dawkins recall grandparents farm

Sisters recall childhood on the farm of grandfather John Cephas Wallace . . .

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TIME PERIOD

1950s and 1960s

KEYWORDS

Wallace family, Harrod family, Farming, Churches and Religious Expression, Black History

Pound Net Fishery at Parkers Creek

Watermen from the Eastern Shore established a fishing camp at the mouth of Parkers Creek in the early 20th century . . .

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TIME PERIOD

1917-1958

KEYWORDS

Fisheries & Maritime, Richardson family, Tettimer family

Parkers Creek Oral History Interviews: Selected Segments

The PCHT embraces all aspects of regional history, with a special emphasis on African American families ...

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TIME PERIOD

20th century-present

KEYWORDS

Harrod family, Wills family, Domestic Service, Black History

Woodrow Wallace’s Tobacco Operation, 1987-2001, Part 1

Photo essay of family tobacco operation, seedbed, transplant, and cultivate . . .

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TIME PERIOD

1987-2001

KEYWORDS

Wallace family, Farming, Black History

Woodrow Wallace’s Tobacco Operation, 1987-2001, Part 2

Photo essay of family tobacco operation, harvest, curing in barn, and auction market . . .

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TIME PERIOD

1987-2001

KEYWORDS

Wallace family, Farming, Black History

Booklet: The African American Community, ca. 1800-1960

Assembled research materials pertaining to Black families as of 2022, summarized in booklet form; downloadable PDF.

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TIME PERIOD

1800-1960

KEYWORDS

Black History

Launch Event: PC Heritage Trail

ACLT public event to launch Heritage Trail, Black history theme

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TIME PERIOD

2026

KEYWORDS

Celebrate new trail signs & website

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