On Waterfront Street north of American Way, on the left when traveling north.
[Panel 1:]
Stained glass, clam, crab, and oyster mosaic
Installed March 2008
Original work commissioned and owned by National Waterfront LC
Cheryl Foster, Artist
Nicie Jones has been picking crabs at J.M. Clayton Co. . . . — — Map (db m127677) HM
Near Oxon Hill Road (Maryland Route 414) south of Tanger Blvd.
Panel 1: Welcome to Salubria This location, Salubria, was a historic site. It has intact archaeological evidence of Woodland Era Indian encampments from 1300-1600 A.D. The Piscataway–Conoy was one of the tribes that . . . — — Map (db m75441) HM
St. Elizabeths Hospital should be “the grandest institution of its kind in the world." -- Charles H. Nichols first Medical superintendent of St. Elizabeths
For nearly 70 years, the land around you was a hospital farm. St. . . . — — Map (db m100626) HM
On Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.
Following the Revolutionary War, the task of locating the capital of the new nation fell to George Washington. He traveled widely investigating other options, such as Philadelphia and Trenton, but ultimately returned to familiar ground, a site on . . . — — Map (db m154018) HM
Near Bald Eagle Road 0.2 miles from Oxon Hill Road (Maryland Route 414), on the left when traveling north.
Standing here and looking out toward the river or through the woods, what you see would depend on when you looked. The Chesapeake watershed began to take its present form some 15,000 years ago as glaciers that covered much of North America slowly . . . — — Map (db m147020) HM
Near Bald Eagle Road 0.3 miles west of Oxon Hill Road (Maryland Route 414), on the left when traveling north.
From the late 1600s to the early 1800s, tobacco, wheat and other crops helped bring prosperity to slaveholders on this farm—at the price of bondage, hard labor, and broken families for enslaved African Americans.
No information about . . . — — Map (db m147021) HM
On MGM National Avenue just west of Oxon Hill Road, on the right when traveling east.
Bird's Eye View of Alexandria, 1863
Ships that docked at Alexandria's bustling wharves carried tobacco all over the world and brought fine goods from Europe for wealthy Maryland planters.
Addison Family at National Harbor . . . — — Map (db m144024) HM
On Waterfront Street north of American Way, on the left when traveling north.
[On front:]
America's Team Protecting Your Freedom
⭐ Duty ⭐ Honor ⭐ Country ⭐
[Plaque on side of stand:]
As the senior service member of the United States military, the Army sculpture is located . . . — — Map (db m127675) WM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
Since World War II, Andrews Air Force Base in Camp Springs, Maryland has been known for its special mission — the air transport of senior U.S. government officials, foreign heads of state and other visiting dignitaries. During John F. . . . — — Map (db m127715) HM
Near National Harbor Boulevard south of Capital Beltway (Interstate 95), on the right when traveling south.
What To Find?
"It's not what you find, it's what you find out."
Anthropologist David Hurst Thomas
Oxon Hill was a place with history; that much archaeologists knew when they set out to excavate. There had . . . — — Map (db m127704) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
During the War of 1812, the British threatened the city of Washington. American troops attempted to defend the Nation's Capital at the Battle of Bladensburg in Prince George's County. Unfortunately, the effort failed and British troops marched into . . . — — Map (db m127707) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
After assassinating Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth fled on horseback to Prince George's County. He was aided by Mary Surratt and stopped at her tavern in Surrattsville (now known as Clinton). Though many today believe she was innocent, Mary . . . — — Map (db m127709) HM
Near Capital Beltway Outer Loop (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard.
The College Park Airport — the world's oldest continuously operating airport — was founded by the Wright Brothers in 1909 as the first flying school for military aviators. In accordance with their Army contract, Wilbur trained the first . . . — — Map (db m127792) HM
On Interstate 95, on the left when traveling west.
In this age of technological innovation, the act of crossing a river may be taken for granted. And yet, there is always a magic to bridges: How is the river parted to lay the foundation? What stops the bridge from washing downstream? How are so many . . . — — Map (db m61975) HM
On Brinkley Road just east of St. Ignatius Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Dedicated to the memory of those unknown who were enslaved and buried in the Archdiocese of Washington
The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them.
Wisdom 3:1 — — Map (db m154458) HM
On National Harbor Boulevard at Capital Beltway (Interstate 95), on the right when traveling south on National Harbor Boulevard.
1. Oxon Cove Farm & Oxon Hill Farm
Explore farm life and how it's changed over time by visiting the outbuildings and animal pens of a working farm, taking a wagon ride, and by participating in hands-on activities and living history programs. A . . . — — Map (db m127703) HM
Near Oxon Hill Road (Maryland Route 414) south of Tanger Boulevard.
A Need For Change
After acquiring the Salubria land and building his manor house here in 1830, Dr. John H. Bayne quickly realized that devoting the entire property to the cultivation of tobacco was not going to produce the income he needed. . . . — — Map (db m75404) HM
Near Oxon Hill Road (Maryland Route 414) 0.3 miles south of Harborview Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
In addition to his very successful horticulture activities, Dr. Bayne provided leadership in other areas.
A Politician Who Evolved
In 1841, Dr. Bayne entered Maryland politics and was elected to the House of Delegates as a member of . . . — — Map (db m75411) HM
Near Oxon Hill Road (Maryland Route 414) 0.3 miles south of Harborview Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
On November 1, 1864, new provisions of the Maryland State Constitution brought freedom to the enslaved people of Maryland after 200 years of bondage. Article 24 stated,
“That hereafter, in this State, there shall be neither slavery nor . . . — — Map (db m75415) HM
On MGM National Avenue just west of Oxon Hill Road, on the right when traveling east.
Free Blacks Owned Parts of Oxon Hill Manor
By the end of the 1700s, there were a number of free African American families living in the Oxon Hill area. Several of these free blacks were manumitted by members of the Addison family, . . . — — Map (db m149917) HM
Near Oxon Hill Rd. (Maryland Route 414) south of Harborview Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Experience Salubria is a curated collective of historic facts that establishes Southern Prince George’s County as the front door to Maryland’s epic heritage. The collective within the Tanger Outlets National Harbor consists of four . . . — — Map (db m74970) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
In the mid-19th century, C.C. Hyatt established a store and post office at the intersection of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and U.S. Route One. In the 1870s, Hyatt subdivided the surrounding farmland into housing lots, creating the nucleus of . . . — — Map (db m127716) HM
On Oxon Hill Road (Maryland Route 414) 0.3 miles east of Indian Head Highway (Maryland Route 210), on the right when traveling east.
President of the United States in Congress assembled, 1781-2. Died November 15, 1783, at
"Oxon Hill"
1½ miles west of here. The original mansion house, built by the Addison family, was burned February 6, 1895. — — Map (db m46044) HM
On Oxon Hill Road (Maryland Route 414) west of Indian Head Highway (Maryland Route 210).
[Panel 1:]
John Hanson
Honored Patriot of the American Revolution
[Picture of John Hanson and Seal of the "Sons of the American Revolution"]
[Panel 2:]
Born 3 April, 1721, Mullberry Grove, Charles Co., . . . — — Map (db m46045) HM
On MGM National Avenue just west of Oxon Hill Road, on the right when traveling east.
Articles of Confederation
To all to who these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting. Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of New Hampshire, . . . — — Map (db m144023) HM
Near Oxon Hill Rd. (Maryland Route 414) south of Harborview Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Resistance to slavery took many forms – some more extreme and more cruel than others. In November 1834, house slave Judah, a 14 year-old, girl confessed to fatally poisoning three of Dr. Bayne’s children and attempting to set fire to . . . — — Map (db m117030) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
Laurel was unique in old Prince George's because the town's wealth came from cotton mills, iron foundries, and small industries, rather than tobacco. The Laurel Cotton Mill, the principal industry in Laurel during the early 1900s, employed 400 . . . — — Map (db m127713) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard.
In 1790, Prince George's County, along with the Commonwealth of Virginia, relinquished most of the land for the ten-mile square that would become Washington, D.C., the new Nation's Capital. George Washington chose a site on the Potomac and shrewdly . . . — — Map (db m127721) HM
On Bald Eagle/Oxon Hill Farm (Access) Road. 0.1 miles north of Oxon Hill Road (State Route 414).
Welcome to Oxon Cove Park. Around here a walk in the park is a walk back in time. Exhibits along the way will help you find the layers of time. The Mount Welby historic house also has exhibits.
Today Oxon Hill Farm is the main feature of Oxon . . . — — Map (db m49522) HM
On Oxon Hill Hiker Trail west of Bald Eagle Road, on the left when traveling north.
The history of Oxon Cove Park is a small part of the larger story of the Potomac River, which is one chapter in the long tale of the Chesapeake Bay. But the three stories overlap in many details and eras.
For thousands of years, the abundance of . . . — — Map (db m49288) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
At the time of the first European contact, the indigenous people of Southern Maryland were united in a loose group of villages known to the English as the Piscataway Confederation. Their paramount chief, or Tayac, lived in a village called Moyaone, . . . — — Map (db m127706) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
"[Fish were] lying so thicke with their heads above water, (that) for want of nets, we attempted to catch them with a frying pan"
-Captain John Smith, 1608
The Potomac River has long been a fine place to "go . . . — — Map (db m127728) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
Two amusement parks developed on the Maryland side of the Potomac in the 1890s: one for blacks, and one for whites. Notley Hall was owned and operated by African-Americans. Black residents from Washington, D.C., visited the park called by one . . . — — Map (db m127705) HM
On Oxon Hill Farm Trail west of Bald Eagle Road, on the left when traveling west.
"We found three rockets on our hill evidently pointed at our house but fortunately did not reach it”
Mary DeButts, writing to her sister Millicent on March 18, 1815
Samuel and Mary DeButts were lucky not to be . . . — — Map (db m48954) HM
On Oxon Hill Farm Hiker Trail west of Bald Eagle Road.
This root cellar may not look much like a refrigerator. But in the 1830s, it was probably the closest thing the DeButts family had.
A good root cellar is damp, well ventilated, and very cool but never freezing. Like this one, most root . . . — — Map (db m48948) HM
On St. Columba Church west parking lot drive south of Livingston Road.
Saint Lorenzo Ruiz
First Filipino Saint
Born: Binondo, Manila, Philippines, 1600[?]
Died for the Faith: Nagasaki, Japan, 1637
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Spirit of the Living God Charismatic Community, Filipino Ministry and St. Columba Parish.
Dedicated, . . . — — Map (db m40715) HM
Born 332 in Tagaste, North Africa;
Died 387 in Ostia near Rome
~
“My reason for wanting to live a little longer was to see you a Catholic Christian before I died.” ~ St. Monica
~
Patroness of Mothers, Wives, Widows, Parents, . . . — — Map (db m116340) HM
Near Oxon Hill Rd. (Maryland Route 414) south of Tanger Blvd., on the right when traveling north.
The nature of agriculture along the Potomac changed thanks to the techniques Dr. John H. Bayne used to produce fresh fruit and vegetables for the nation’s capital. Bayne ceased fighting for Maryland slaveholders to be compensated for emancipation, . . . — — Map (db m75448) HM
On the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Trail (U.S. I-95) 0.3 miles west of Harborview Avenue.
You’re now standing in the cove protected by Rosalie Island, the point of first landfall for the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Maryland. Rosalie Island is actually not an island at all–it is a peninsula. Indeed it is not even a natural landform. . . . — — Map (db m19859) HM
On Waterfront Street north of American Way, on the left when traveling north.
Original work commissioned and owned by National Waterfront LC
Installed March 2008
Brass, copper, aluminum
The skipjack is the Maryland State Boat and is a sailing dredge boat, it is the last of the working sailboats that harvest . . . — — Map (db m127708) HM
Near Oxon Hill Rd. (Maryland Route 414) south of Harborview Avenue.
Only Black Slavery Was Legal in Maryland Maryland institutionalized the enslavement of Africans at the same time they were being shipped to this section of the Potomac Valley from St. Mary’s City, Port Tobacco, and Virginia. Indians and Whites . . . — — Map (db m75283) HM
On Brinkley Road 0.1 miles east of Rosecroft Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Founded in 1849 as a mission church under pastor Fr. Joseph M. Finotti, S.J. it remained a mission church until 1948, when Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle declared it a parish with Fr. Patrick J. Begley as the first resident pastor.
In the late . . . — — Map (db m4167) HM
On Brinkley Road just east of St. Ignatius Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Established in 1849 along the old Alexandria Ferry Road. Rev. Joseph M. Finotti, S.J., First Pastor. Rev. Patrick J. Begley First Resident Pastor 1948.
May this marker serve as a tribute of gratitude to the faithful members of this . . . — — Map (db m154456) HM
On Oxon Hill Farm Hiker Biker Trail west of Bald Eagle Road.
This antique machine is a sorghum mill. With a mill like this, a horse, plenty of sorghum stalks, an evaporating pan, and years of experience, you can make sweet sorghum syrup.
In the early 1900s, farm families used sorghum syrup like molasses . . . — — Map (db m49324) HM
On Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.
Public warehouses for the receiving and inspection of tobacco were built in 1730 near the foot of present day Oronoco Street, and became the core around which grew the port of Alexandria. The city was founded in 1749 and flourished along with its . . . — — Map (db m127731) HM
Near Oxon Hill Farm Trail west of Bald Eagle Road, on the left when traveling west. Reported damaged.
“I cannot express to you the distress it has occasioned at the Battle of Bladensburg. We heard every fire. …Our house was shook repeatedly by the firing upon forts and bridges, and illuminated by the fires in our Capital.” . . . — — Map (db m48949) HM
On Oxon Hill Farm Trail west of Bald Eagle Road, on the right when traveling west.
“It was indeed a day and night of horrors, the fleet … lay directly before our house.”
Mary DeButts, writing to her sister Millicent on March 18, 1815.
From this farm, Mary DeButts saw a small fleet on . . . — — Map (db m48959) HM
Near Oxon Hill Farm Hiker Trail near Bald Eagle Road, on the left when traveling west.
[Panel 1:] The DeButts Family Comes to Maryland Samuel DeButts was born in Ireland in 1756. He began a career as a doctor in England and there met and married his wife, Mary Welby, in 1785. Samuel’s medical practice was difficult, . . . — — Map (db m49056) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
"From this we went to Piscataway, where all flew to arms. About five hundred men, equipped with bows, stood on the shore with their chieftain. Signs of peace given them, the chief, laying aside his apprehensions, came on board the . . . — — Map (db m127725) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
By the mid-1700s, Prince George's County had the largest populations of slaves in the state — nearly half of its residents were enslaved Africans, most working on local tobacco plantations. The Civil War drastically changed this equation. . . . — — Map (db m127723) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
The Potomac River was a current that ran through George Washington's life and through the early history of this country. Born downstream at Pope's Creek Plantation, Washington lived most of his life along the Potomac's banks. As a young man, he . . . — — Map (db m127727) HM
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Potomac River was a highway. Roads were bumpy, narrow, winding routes, littered with stumps and fallen trees. They led from tobacco barns and small villages down to the real thoroughfare – the Potomac. . . . — — Map (db m48956) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
At first, Maryland's early settlers had little to trade with England in return for tools, clothing, coffee, tea, sugar, rum, and other necessities and luxuries of life. Tobacco, which was in great demand in Europe, proved to be the key to prosperity . . . — — Map (db m127724) HM
Near Waterfront Street north of American Way, on the left when traveling north.
Original work commissioned and owned by National Waterfront LC
Installed March 2008
Brass, copper, aluminum
This illustration pays tribute to the only father/son Triple Crown Winners, Gallant Fox (1930) and Omaha . . . — — Map (db m127674) HM
The buildings on this property are clues to the
lives of the people who lived here over the past
two centuries. Sixteen buildings stand on the main part of the property. They all say something about who lived here, the crops they grew, and the . . . — — Map (db m100627) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, in the median.
By his written account, the English Captain John Smith, a leader of the Jamestown settlement, was the first European to sail the Potomac, reaching Little Falls just north of Georgetown. His goal was to chart the Chesapeake Bay — and to record . . . — — Map (db m127730) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Route 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
Well after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, tobacco remained Prince George's County's most important crop. Upper Marlboro, formed in 1706, and established as county seat in 1721, continued to be an important center for tobacco cultivation . . . — — Map (db m127711) HM
Perched above the Potomac River, Mount Welby was nearly surrounded by the war in August 1814. Mary Welby DeButts describes hearing “every fire” from the Battle of Bladensburg and how the house was illuminated by fires in Washington. She . . . — — Map (db m80061) HM
On Oxon Hill Farm Hiker Trail west of Bald Eagle Road.
“I should not be surprised if Government persists in their determination to quarrel with England that we should experience all the horrors of civil discord.”
Letter of Mary Welby De Butts to her brother, Richard Earl . . . — — Map (db m49145) HM
On Oxon Hill Farm Hiker Trail west of Bald Eagle Road, on the right when traveling west.
In spring and summer, wheat and tobacco grow in this garden. These two plants alone tell an important part of the history of this farm.
Tobacco was the most valuable crop in the American colonies in the 1600s and 1700s. Planters such as John . . . — — Map (db m48947) HM
On Oxon Hill Farm Hiker Trail west of Bald Eagle Road.
A 175-year-old brick stable is rare in this region. Most stables and barns built in Maryland in the 1800s were made of wood and had one story, not two. Brick buildings were more expensive to build, but lasted longer. When this stable went up, . . . — — Map (db m48943) HM
Near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Trail (U.S. I-95) 0.8 miles west of Oxon Hill Road (State Route 414).
[Center Panel]
This bridge is named in honor of Woodrow Wilson.
An early automobile enthusiast, he reportedly spent an average of two hours per day riding in his automobile to relax and “loosen his mind from the problems before . . . — — Map (db m19756) HM
Near Capital Beltway (Interstate 95) west of National Harbor Boulevard, on the right when traveling east.
In the mid-1960s, the water quality of the Potomac River was unhealthy. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson called the river a "national disgrace." Development and public neglect had allowed the river to become polluted with sediment, sewage, and . . . — — Map (db m127729) HM
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