Madison in Dorchester County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Malone's Church
Ties that Bind
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Photographed by Don Morfe, October 28, 2014
1. Malone's Church Marker
Harriet Tubman was born nearby on Harrisville Road at the Anthony Thompson plantation around 1822, where Thompson enslaved her father, Ben Ross, and about 40 other people. While Tubmans roots began near here, she moved to Bucktown during her early childhood and returned to the area as a teen. In this place, she felt the nurturing bonds of family, faith and community.
Hired to the Stewart family, Tubman began working with her father in these woods, cutting timber and floating it along Stewarts Canal to Parsons Creek and Madison. Tubmans brothers worked here too. Free black laborers timbered and farmed this land also, establishing a blended community of enslaved and free black families. According to local tradition, this is where Harriet met her free husband, John Tubman.
Following the Civil War, this African-American community established Malones Methodist Episcopal Church, named after Jeremiah Malone who deeded the property in 1864, formalizing community and faith ties that existed long before.
Erected by America's Byways; Maryland Heritage Area Authority. (Marker Number 9.)
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans
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Location. 38° 29.502′ N, 76° 13.014′ W. Marker is in Madison, Maryland, in Dorchester County. It is on White Marsh Road. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 4573 White Marsh Road, Madison MD 21648, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is on the Eastern Shore. It is also in the American Mid-Atlantic, on the Delmarva Peninsula, in the Tidewater, and in the Chesapeake Bay Region. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once one of the original Thirteen Colonies and also the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Gethsemane Methodist Protestant Church (approx. 1.1 miles away); Madison (approx. 1.2 miles away); Trinity P.E. Church (approx. 2.8 miles away); Writer, War Strategist, Enigma (approx. 2.8 miles away); Walk the Old Trinity Heritage Trail (approx. 2.8 miles away); New Revived Church (approx. 3.4 miles away); Finding Freedom (approx. 3.6 miles away); Treaty Oak (approx. 3.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Madison.
Another marker is no longer nearby. Anna Ella Carroll (was approx. 2.8 miles away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).
Also see . . . Malon's M. E. Church. Maryland Historical Trust Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form (Submitted on November 20, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.)
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Photographed by Don Morfe, October 28, 2014
3. Malone's Church Marker
Photographed by Don Morfe, October 28, 2014
5. Malone's Church
Photographed by Don Morfe, October 28, 2014
6. Parson's Creek
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, November 19, 2018
7. Malone's Church
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, November 19, 2018
8. Cornerstone
Malones M. E. Church 1895
Malones M. E. Church 1895
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, November 19, 2018
9. Moses Tubman
Aged
72 Years
I have fought the good fight
I have finished my course
I have kept the faith
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, November 19, 2018
10. Emeline
Moses Tubman
Died Aug. 1884
Aged 62 Years
We Will Meet Again
Photographed by Allen C. Browne, November 19, 2018
11. John Travis
Co. D.
4 U.S.C.Inf.
Co. D.
4 U.S.C.Inf.
Photographed by Don Morfe, October 28, 2014
12. Malone's Church and Cemetery
Harrisville/Malone Cemetery Maintenance Fund Inc.
Our Mission is to preserve the history and continue to educate the surrounding communities near and far of the breathtaking African American heritage of our ancestors from the Harrisville/Madison and neighboring areas. To tell the stories of their faith, strength and love for their church, families and communities.
Donations are greatly appreciated, send to:
Harrisville/Malone Cemetery Maintenance Fund Inc.
P.O. Box 143 Woolford, Maryland 21677
Our Mission is to preserve the history and continue to educate the surrounding communities near and far of the breathtaking African American heritage of our ancestors from the Harrisville/Madison and neighboring areas. To tell the stories of their faith, strength and love for their church, families and communities.
Donations are greatly appreciated, send to:
Harrisville/Malone Cemetery Maintenance Fund Inc.
P.O. Box 143 Woolford, Maryland 21677
Credits. This page was last revised on August 30, 2022. It was originally submitted on November 10, 2014, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 1,264 times since then and 35 times this year. Last updated on November 20, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. Photos: 1. submitted on November 10, 2014, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. 2. submitted on August 30, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. 3. submitted on November 10, 2014, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. 4. submitted on August 30, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. 5, 6. submitted on November 10, 2014, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. 7, 8. submitted on November 20, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. 9, 10, 11. submitted on December 20, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. 12. submitted on November 10, 2014, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
