Maryland historical sites offer glimpses into colonial and Revolutionary eras

Maryland offers various historical sites spanning the colonial era through the American Revolution. In Frederick County, Catoctin Furnace served as an ironworks that produced cannonballs for George Washington’s army, utilizing both free and enslaved labor. The area also includes Rose Hill Manor Park, associated with Maryland’s first governor, Thomas Johnson, and the Hessian Barracks, which once held British and Hessian prisoners of war.

In Dorchester County, the Old Trinity Episcopal Church in Church Creek is recognized as the oldest church building in the United States still in regular use. Believed to have been built between 1675 and 1690, the structure features late-17th-century brickwork and wooden beams. The surrounding cemetery contains the graves of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 veterans, as well as former Maryland Governor Thomas King Carroll and Civil War adviser Anna Ella Carroll.