Historical Markers in Forest Heights, Maryland

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Historical Markers in Forest Heights, Maryland

1 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Forest Heights — Africans Becoming Americans —

Durante Vita From the day the colony was founded in 1634, enslaved Africans played an important role in the history and development of Maryland and Prince George's County. As skilled laborers, artisans, and farmhands, the . . . — — Map (db m202335) HM

2 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Forest Heights — After the Addisons — Oxon Hill in the 19th and 20th Centuries —

The Berry Years Prosperous planter Zachariah Berry owned thousands of acres in Prince George's County before purchasing Oxon Hill Manor from the Addison Family in 1810. Little is known about his activity on the estate–indeed, it . . . — — Map (db m127693) HM

3 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Forest Heights — Original Federal Boundary Stone, District of Columbia, Southeast 8 —

Jurisdiction of the United States Miles 8 1792 Replica Erected 2015 Maryland Var 0⁰ 34’ E — — Map (db m154796) HM

4 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Forest Heights — The Architecture of Oxon Hill Manor —

A cupola used to ornament the top of this house in the old days, where it was pleasant to sit on summer evenings and watch the sun set over the hills back of Alexandria...with the broad Potomac flowing between. The view is still very fine, . . . — — Map (db m127692) HM

5 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Forest Heights — The First People —

Europeans Make Contact "...heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation...here are mountains, hills, plains, valleys, rivers, and brookes, all running most pleasantly into a faire Bay compassed but for the . . . — — Map (db m127679) HM

6 ► Maryland, Prince George's County, Forest Heights, National Harbor — The Addisons of Oxon Hill Manor — Reported missing

A Plantation Society Settlers to the New World came in search of gold, but what they found was a rugged landscape whose humbler natural resources would prove to be the greatest source of wealth. Timber, furs, and metal ores that had . . . — — Map (db m229194) HM

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