History and Heritage in Chestertown, MD

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This is the first Methodist meeting house erected in Queen Anne?s County, as an outgrowth of a Society organized in 1...

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A free-thirty minute audio guided tour recreating the sights and sounds of Chestertown's 18th-century waterf...

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was held the first convention which proposed and adopted the name Protestant Episcopal Church November 9, 1780.

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In June 1917, Judge James A. Pearce commemorated the Civil War soldiers of Kent County by erecting a monument to hono...

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Near this spot Henry Callister, Merchant, operated a rope and raft ferry across the Chester River during the 1750?s a...

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In Honor of James Alfred Pearce Born 1840 -- Died 1920 Distinguished Citizen - Eminent Jurist Christian Gentleman Chi...

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Swish Philadelphia A.L., 1936 Chicago N.L., 1939 1948 Philadelphia N.L., 1948 1953 Born Chestertown, Kent County, Eas...

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George Washington gave to its founding, granted use of his name and served on the Board of Visitors and Governors. He...

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Kent County braced for the return of the British in August 1814. Enemy raiders has destroyed nearby Georgetown the pr...

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War on the Chesapeake Bay. During the Civil War, Baltimore and its environs exemplified the divided loyalties of Mary...

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Founded 1728, when the Provincial Council in Annapolis granted a petition to establish the present parish. St. Luke?s...

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Master Machinist and Blacksmith, he was the third generation of his family to devote his life to work with forge, tor...

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In the village of Still Pond, twelve years before the 19th Amendment established women?s suffrage, Mary Jane Clark Ho...

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Erected by James A. Pearce June 1917 in commemoration of the patriotism and valor of a once divided but now reunited ...

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In Memory of more than 400 prominent United States Colored Troops from Kent County, Maryland who bravely displayed ex...

Dudley's Chapel (C. 1783)