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26

Indigenous People in the Vicinity of Parkers Creek

Indigenous People in the Vicinity of Parkers Creek

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

TOPIC(S)

Indigenous People

TIME PERIOD

11,000 BC-1600 AD

FAMILY NAME(S)

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

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 ...

TOPIC(S)

Colonial Establishment

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1650s

FAMILY NAME(S)

Parker

Holly Hill History

Holly Hill History

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

TOPIC(S)

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1660-2000

FAMILY NAME(S)

Dare, Turner

Turner

Hance-Chesley Cemetery

Hance-Chesley Cemetery

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

TOPIC(S)

Cemeteries

TIME PERIOD

1812-1868

FAMILY NAME(S)

Hance

Chesley

William H. and Suddie Commodore: A Parkers Creek Family

William H. and Suddie Commodore: A Parkers Creek Family

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

TOPIC(S)

Civil War Soldiers

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1850s-1940s

FAMILY NAME(S)

Commodore

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

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 ...

TOPIC(S)

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1870-1950

FAMILY NAME(S)

Scales

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

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 ...

TOPIC(S)

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1875-1960

FAMILY NAME(S)

Parker

Yoe Family History

Yoe Family History

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

TOPIC(S)

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1630-present; emphasis 20th century

FAMILY NAME(S)

Yoe

Parkers Creek Oral History Interviews: Selected Segments

Parkers Creek Oral History Interviews: Selected Segments

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

TOPIC(S)

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

20th century-present

FAMILY NAME(S)

Harrod

Wills

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

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

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

TOPIC(S)

Colonial Establishment

TIME PERIOD

17th and 18th centuries

FAMILY NAME(S)

Sampson Waring, Puritan Activist, and Warrington

Sampson Waring, Puritan Activist, and Warrington

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

TOPIC(S)

Colonial Establishment

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1616-1692

FAMILY NAME(S)

Waring

Holly Hill Log Barn

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 ...

TOPIC(S)

Barns

TIME PERIOD

1830s-present

FAMILY NAME(S)

Dare, Turner

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

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

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

TOPIC(S)

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1820-1960

FAMILY NAME(S)

Dorsey

Old Mill Bridge & Mills on Parkers Creek

Old Mill Bridge & Mills on Parkers Creek

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

TOPIC(S)

Mills (gristmills, sawmills)

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

18th, 19th, and 20th centuries

FAMILY NAME(S)

Turner

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

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

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

TOPIC(S)

Mills (gristmills, sawmills)

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1880-1920

FAMILY NAME(S)

Turner

Lemuel & Annie Wallace: Farm, House, & Family

Lemuel & Annie Wallace: Farm, House, & Family

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

TOPIC(S)

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1850-1940

FAMILY NAME(S)

Wallace

Delois Harrod Johnson and Phyllis Harrod Dawkins recall grandparents farm

Delois Harrod Johnson and Phyllis Harrod Dawkins recall grandparents farm

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

TOPIC(S)

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1950s and 1960s

FAMILY NAME(S)

Dawkins, Johnson, Wallace

Harrod

Johnson

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

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

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

TOPIC(S)

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1800-1960

FAMILY NAME(S)

Multiple families

Maps only: Colonial-era Land Patents Near Parkers Creek

Maps only: Colonial-era Land Patents Near Parkers Creek

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

TOPIC(S)

Colonial Establishment

TIME PERIOD

17th and 18th centuries

FAMILY NAME(S)

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

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 . . .

TOPIC(S)

Colonial Establishment

TIME PERIOD

1651-1672

FAMILY NAME(S)

Gary, Sharp

Holly Hill Barn Preservation

Holly Hill Barn Preservation

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

TOPIC(S)

Barns

TIME PERIOD

2017-2021

FAMILY NAME(S)

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

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 ...

TOPIC(S)

Civil War Soldiers

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1830-1909

FAMILY NAME(S)

Wallace

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

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 ...

TOPIC(S)

Families and Individuals

Civil War Soldiers

TIME PERIOD

1830-1931

FAMILY NAME(S)

Parker

Daniel Wallace, Farmer Who Lost All During the Great Depression

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 ...

TOPIC(S)

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1870-1940

FAMILY NAME(S)

Wallace

Alonzo Bell, landowning farmer on Parkers Creek

Alonzo Bell, landowning farmer on Parkers Creek

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

TOPIC(S)

Families and Individuals

TIME PERIOD

1850-1915

FAMILY NAME(S)

Bell

Pound Net Fishery at Parkers Creek

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 . . .

TOPIC(S)

Fisheries and Maritime

TIME PERIOD

1917-1958

FAMILY NAME(S)

Richardson, Tettimer

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