Near South Morris Street at Market Street, on the right when traveling north.
1668
A parcel of land, including the area that will become Oxford, is traded from Edward Lloyd to William Stephens, Jr., a Quaker from Dorchester County.
1670
The name "Oxford" first appears on a map of Maryland and Virginia . . . — — Map (db m204977) HM
Near South Morris Street (Maryland Route 333) at Market Street, on the right when traveling north.
1738
Robert Morris Sr. arrives in Oxford from Liverpool. As manager or "chief factor" for trading company Foster Cunliffe & Sons, he supervises the trade in tobacco, pork, hides and lumber, and leads Oxford's first great economic boom. . . . — — Map (db m204964) HM
Near South Morris Street (Maryland Route 333) at Market Street, on the right when traveling north.
1812-15
War rages between the US and Britain, partly over the impacts of British restrictions on US maritime trade. British troops occupy Tilghman's, Poplar and Sharp's Islands.
1814
British troops burn Washington and bomb Fort . . . — — Map (db m204972) HM
Near South Morris Street (Maryland Route 333) at Market Street, on the right when traveling north.
1870
The Oxford census lists 277 inhabitants.
1871
General Tench Tilghman brings regular Maryland and Delaware Railroad service to Oxford, with its terminal at Pier Street. 3,000 people celebrate the first arriving train. . . . — — Map (db m204988) HM
Near South Morris Street at Market Street, on the right when traveling north.
1900
Oxford's population is 1243.
The oyster boom ends due to overfishing, pollution, and lack of regulation.
1904
Downtown Baltimore is destroyed by fire.
1910
Red Man's Hall is built on Morris Street as social . . . — — Map (db m204989) HM
Near South Morris Street at Market Street, on the right when traveling north.
1952
The 4.3-mile-long William P. Lane, Jr. Memorial Bridge (Chesapeake Bay Bridge) opens, replacing ferries and vastly improving connections to the Eastern Shore.
1954
The Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education . . . — — Map (db m204990) HM
Near South Morris Street at Market Street, on the right when traveling north.
15,000 BC
The global climate warms and the ice sheets melt. The Atlantic Ocean rises almost 400 feet, flooding the Susquehanna River valley and forming the early Chesapeake Bay.
11,500 BC
Nomadic Paleo-Indian people follow . . . — — Map (db m204974) HM
Who died April 15th 1786 in the 42d year of his age. Very much lamented. He took an early and active part in the great contest that secured the independence of the United States of America. He was an Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency General . . . — — Map (db m3172) HM
On Ferry Crossing Slip Road (Maryland Route 333) at Strand, on the right when traveling north on Ferry Crossing Slip Road.
This American Liberty Elm was named after "The Liberty Tree: Our Country's first Symbol of Freedom." On the morning of August 14, 1765, the people of Boston awakened to discover two effigies suspended from an elm tree in protest of the hated Stamp . . . — — Map (db m204991) HM
On Oxford Road (Maryland Route 333) east of 2nd Street, on the right when traveling east.
A fairly simple and inexpensive boat to build, the skipjack became a popular workboat in the 1890s. Built in 1967, this miniature version of a skipjack was a sturdy, swift daysailer particularly suitable for Chesapeake waters. . . . — — Map (db m204993) HM
On Oxford Road (Maryland Route 333) just west of Wintersell Road, on the left when traveling west.
Reconstruction of a Colonial Tidewater Cottage erected on this site ca. 1840. The original, a residence until 2016, was moved in 2020 to Royal Oak, MD. — — Map (db m204962) HM
On Maryland Route 333 at S. Morris Street, on the left when traveling west on State Route 333.
One of the first towns and ports authorized by Assembly in 1683. Called “William-Stade” in 1695. Robert Morris, father of the financier of the Revolution lived here until his death in 1750. He is buried at Old Whitmarsh Church. — — Map (db m3171) HM
On Maryland Route 333 at Strand Road, on the left on State Route 333.
Believed to be nation’s oldest privately operated ferry service. Ferry has plied across Tred Avon River since Talbot County Court “pitcht upon Mr. Richard Royston to Keepe a Ferry” November 20, 1683, service has been continuous since . . . — — Map (db m3170) HM
On East Strand at North Morris Street (County Route 333), on the left when traveling east on East Strand.
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued January 1, 1863, authorized the recruiting of African Americans as United States soldiers. Blacks on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware sought freedom for themselves and their families in return their . . . — — Map (db m34451) HM
Oxford is a documented Middle Passage port on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. As a major maritime tobacco sea port during the colonial period, there were four Transatlantic ships and twenty-five Intra-American voyages that delivered captive Africans to . . . — — Map (db m233434) HM
On North Morris Street (Maryland Route 333) at East Strand Road, on the right on North Morris Street.
Robert Morris, Sr. and Robert Morris, Jr., a Revolutionary War financier, lived in the original section. The building served as town hall, convalscent home for World War I veterans and general store. Since the late 1940’s it has been operated as an . . . — — Map (db m3169) HM
