The park offers a landscaped seating area and information kiosk about Frederick Douglass, who lived enslaved near St. Michaels from 1833-1836. Douglass taught himself to read and write, and conducted clandestine schools for African-Americans here. He escaped north and became a noted abolitionist, orator and editor. On Maryland’s Frederick Douglass Driving Tour.
Thomas Auld kept a store on this corner and lived in the block behind it, toward the harbor. In 1833, Frederick Douglass, now a strong-willed teenager, was sent here from Baltimore to live with Thomas Auld and his second wife Rowena. On Maryland's Frederick Douglass Driving Tour.
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A Maryland Century Farm est 1881 growing flowers, botanicals and acres of lavender on the shore of the Patuxent River. U-Cut Flowers during the summer, bring the family for a beautiful fun day in the flowers.
Frederick Douglass dedicated this new brick church on his 1878 tour. The congregation was active as early as 1836. The Asbury steeple’s welcoming pineapple symbol is a neighborhood icon.
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In the Hornbake Plaza on the campus of the University of Maryland College Park. The 7 1/2 feet tall statue was created by renowned sculptor Andrew Edwards. The bronze statue portrays an urgent and youthful Douglass in Ireland. On Maryland's Frederick Douglass Driving Tour.
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This is the oldest A.M.E. congregation on the Eastern Shore, established in 1818. In 1878, when Frederick Douglass visited, the church building was brand new. The church still uses the original rostrum from which Douglass addressed the congregation to dedicate the new brick church.
When Douglass visited Talbot County in 1878, he stayed here. The hotel was one of the earliest buildings in the center of Easton. When Douglass was imprisoned in Easton in 1836 for his attempted escape, the hotel was the main view from his cell. Slave traders often stayed at the hotel. On Maryland's Frederick Douglass Driving Tour.