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Historical Society of Kent County Presents Plantations, Slavery & Freedom on Maryland’s Eastern Shore

January 18, 2019Across Our Desk

Please join the Historical Society of Kent County on Friday, February 1, 2019 at 5:30 pm, as we present Plantations, Slavery & Freedom on Maryland’s Eastern Shore African Americans, both enslaved and free, were vital to the economy of the Eastern Shore of Maryland before the Civil War. Maryland became a slave society in colonial […]

First Friday at Kent County Historical Society “The People of Rose Hill” with Dr. Lucy Maddox

January 22, 2018January 24, 2018Across Our Desk

SAVE THE DATE Historical Society of Kent County’s History Happy Hour February 2, 2018 – 4 PM Bordley Building in Chestertown “The People of Rose Hill” with Dr. Lucy Maddox Life at Rose Hill Plantation, on the Sassafras River in Cecil County, was documented from 1814 to 1845 by Martha Forman, the plantation mistress, in […]