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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 . . .
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 . . .
TIME PERIOD
1700s-1930s
KEYWORDS
Fisheries & Maritime, Steamboats, Cottage Community
Hance-Chesley Cemetery
This cemetery was established by two families joined by marriage ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
TIME PERIOD
1870-1940
KEYWORDS
Wallace family, Ward family, Farming
Benefit Societies Organized by Black Residents Near Parkers Creek
The Parkers Creek area was home to three benefit societies that served Black residents . . .
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 . . .
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 . . .
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 ...
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 . . .
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 . . .
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.
TIME PERIOD
1800-1960
KEYWORDS
Black History
Number of topics found:
30