Southern Marylands Historic Landmarks

Author : Christopher R. Eck
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467117226
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Southern Maryland's Historic Landmarks written by Christopher R. Eck and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Maryland is made up of a collection of peninsulas covered in low rolling hills, fields, forests, swamps, and waterways leading to the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay. As such, this area enjoyed relative isolation and small population for over three centuries despite its proximity to cities such as Alexandria, Annapolis, Baltimore, and Washington. Those who did settle here developed a close connection to its farms, waterways, and natural remoteness. Southern Maryland, known for the state's earliest Colonial settlements, is composed of three of the state's oldest counties: St. Mary's, Charles, and Calvert. Although largely agricultural and maritime in outlook, this region was also the birthplace of the nation's ideal of religious freedom and many of its greatest citizens, including leaders of the Revolution, the early national government, and the state. Many of their homes and churches survive as historic landmarks, or their existence has been documented and preserved for posterity.

Author : Christopher R. Eck
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439657432
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Maryland's Historic Landmarks written by Christopher R. Eck and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Maryland is made up of a collection of peninsulas covered in low rolling hills, fields, forests, swamps, and waterways leading to the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay. As such, this area enjoyed relative isolation and small population for over three centuries despite its proximity to cities such as Alexandria, Annapolis, Baltimore, and Washington. Those who did settle here developed a close connection to its farms, waterways, and natural remoteness. Southern Maryland, known for the state’s earliest Colonial settlements, is composed of three of the state’s oldest counties: St. Mary’s, Charles, and Calvert. Although largely agricultural and maritime in outlook, this region was also the birthplace of the nation’s ideal of religious freedom and many of its greatest citizens, including leaders of the Revolution, the early national government, and the state. Many of their homes and churches survive as historic landmarks, or their existence has been documented and preserved for posterity.

Author : Maryland. Division of Tourist Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Maryland written by Maryland. Division of Tourist Development and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William H. Snowden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
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Download or read book Some Old Historic Landmarks of Virginia and Maryland written by William H. Snowden and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William H. Snowden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
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Download or read book Some Old Historic Landmarks of Virginia and Maryland written by William H. Snowden and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William H. Snowden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Some Old Historic Landmarks of Virginia and Maryland written by William H. Snowden and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maryland Historical Trust
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
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Download or read book Inventory of Historic Sites in Calvert County, Charles County, and St. Mary's County written by Maryland Historical Trust and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia A. King
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572338881
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past written by Julia A. King and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a variety of sources and disciplinary approaches—archaeological, historical, architectural, literary, and art-historical—to show how places take on, convey, and maintain meanings. Focusing on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, King looks at the ways in which various groups, from patriots and politicians of the antebellum era to present-day archaeologists and preservationists, have transformed key landscapes into historical, indeed sacred, spaces. The sites King examines include the region’s vanishing tobacco farms; St. Mary’s City, established as Maryland’s first capital by English settlers in the seventeenth century; and Point Lookout, the location of a prison for captured Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. As the author explores the historical narratives associated with such places, she uncovers some surprisingly durable myths as well as competing ones. St. Mary’s City, for example, early on became the center of Maryland’s “founding narrative” of religious tolerance, a view commemorated in nineteenth-century celebrations and reflected even today in local museum exhibits and preserved buildings. And at Point Lookout, one private group has established a Confederate Memorial Park dedicated to those who died at the prison, thus nurturing the Lost Cause ideology that arose in the South in the late 1800s, while nearby the custodians of a 1,000-acre state park avoid controversy by largely ignoring the area’s Civil War history, preferring instead to concentrate on recreation and tourism, an unusually popular element of which has become the recounting of ghost stories. As King shows, the narratives that now constitute the public memory in southern Maryland tend to overlook the region’s more vexing legacies, particularly those involving slavery and race. Noting how even her own discipline of historical archaeology has been complicit in perpetuating old narratives, King calls for research—particularly archaeological research—that produces new stories and “counter-narratives” that challenge old perceptions and interpretations and thus convey a more nuanced grasp of a complicated past. Julia A. King is an associate professor of anthropology at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she coordinates the Museum Studies Program and directs the SlackWater Center, a consortium devoted to exploring, documenting, and interpreting the changing landscapes of Chesapeake communities. She is also coeditor, with Dennis B. Blanton, of Indian and European Contact in Context: The Mid-Atlantic Region.

Author : Clare Lise Cavicchi
Publisher : Maryland National Capital Park &
ISBN 13 : 9780971560703
Total Pages : 357 pages
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Download or read book Places from the Past written by Clare Lise Cavicchi and published by Maryland National Capital Park &. This book was released on 2001 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Maryland Historical Trust
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Download or read book Historic Sites Inventory: Lower Southern Maryland written by Maryland Historical Trust and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: