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The Maryland Jockey Club, established in 1743, is the premier sports and entertainment destination for world-class Thoroughbred horse racing.

Washington Street Books, known for its large assortment of Books, Music, and Comics, has expanded it's vision to bring Hollywood to Havre de Grace, Maryland with the creation of a New Entertainment Museum. With original Movie Costumes.

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.

Jim Wims, a farmer, took acreage out of production for African-American children to have a ball field, which became known as Wims Meadow. Jim’s son Wilson worked to create the Clarksburg Recreation Center, bettering opportunities for his community.

This historic marker is located where the tennis courts were. It was erected to commemorate the efforts of 24 tennis players who organized integrated matches to challenge the "whites only" policy at the Druid Hill Park tennis courts in 1948.

On the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail. The marker describes the "Buy Where You Can Work” campaign, a boycott of Baltimore stores that refused to hire Black workers that inspired African-American demonstrations in cities across the United States.

This marker, which commemorates Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr., is on the iron fencing that surrounds a fountain in Patterson Park. Watkins was a civil rights activist, pioneering heart surgeon, and a friend of Patterson Park.

This marker is in Midtown-Edmondson on a brick post at the entrance to a parking lot on Pulaski Street. It details the contributions of the mother-daughter team of civil rights pioneers Lillie Carroll Jackson and Juanita Jackson Mitchell.

This marker describes the creation of Baltimore’s premier African-American neighborhood along Druid Hill Avenue and details backlash and legal battles over segregation that occurred with the transfer from white to Black-owned property here.