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To better understand the relationship, study each marker in the order shown.
By Tom Fuchs, March 18, 2006
The Riversdale Dependency Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| Near Riverdale Road west of Taylor Road. |
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Large estates, such as Riversdale, had a number of outbuildings. These support structures, or dependencies, were essential to the operation of a large property. Historians and archaeologists have documented that a kitchen, servant quarters, wash . . . — — Map (db m12117) HM |
| On 15th Street Northwest at Chapin Street Northwest, on the right when traveling north on 15th Street Northwest. |
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Wayland Seminary opened in Foggy Bottom just after the Civil War to train formerly enslaved people and others as “preachers and teachers for the South” and as missionaries to evangelize Africa. In 1875 it moved here, later merging . . . — — Map (db m130745) HM |
| On The Walk of History north of Main Street (Maryland Route 725). |
| | The Walk of History
“We walk in the footsteps of those who went before us.”
The 300th anniversary of the founding of Prince George’s County Maryland, was celebrated on April 23rd, 1996. Three hundred years before, in . . . — — Map (db m32566) HM |
| Near U.S. 20, 0.5 miles north of U.S. 20. |
| | Black soldiers of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry regiments (called "buffalo soldiers" by the Plains Indians) garrisoned Fort Robinson for eighteen years and played an important role in northwestern Nebraska's history. Organized in 1866, the regiments . . . — — Map (db m174269) HM |
| Near Washington Place Northeast at Rhode Island Avenue Northeast (U.S. 1), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Many distinguished Black citizens including Civil War veterans were buried in this cemetery.
These bodies now rest in the new National Harmony Memorial Park Cemetery in Maryland. — — Map (db m16069) HM |
| On Ingraham Street south of Oliver Street. |
| | Cherry Hill Cemetery is an African American burial ground established in 1884 by Josiah Adams. Before emancipation, Adams lived and worked as a free man at the Calvert Family’s plantation, Riversdale. Census records between 1840 and 1870 list . . . — — Map (db m32854) HM |
Apr. 30, 2024
