The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation ...

Less than an hour from D.C., Gettysburg, and Baltimore, the town of Frederick, Maryland, is an amicable people-pleaser. Much ...

From escaped slave to worldwide advocate of abolition and social justice, Frederick Douglass's larger-than-life presence spanned the 19th century. As a young man, Douglass fled his Maryland ...

Begin your exploration at each of the three county historical societies and learn more about the intricacies of the houses in which they reside.

The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" was born in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern ... would last into the Civil War.