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Last of its kind, two-story Gothic Revival schoolhouse, active 1839-1969. A second building has a museum of local 19th- and 20th-century artifacts.

Enjoy a water park and scenic boardwalk on the Bay; Chesapeake Beach Railway Museum, restaurants, marinas, antiques, B&Bs, bay front park, charter fishing and boat ramps.

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.