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HISTORY & HERITAGE
MUSEUMS
KENNARD AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE CENTER (KAACHC)* 410 Kidwell Avenue, Centreville,
Open 1st Saturdays of the month
May–Oct, 10am,-2pm, 443.239.2110
CHESAPEAKE HERITAGE & VISITORS CENTER CHESAPEAKE LEGACY MUSEUM 425 Piney Narrows Road, Chester
Open Mon–Fri 8am-4pm, weekend
hours vary, 410.604.2100
MUSEUM OF EASTERN SHORE LIFE*
126 Dulin Clark Road, Centreville Open 1st Saturdays of the month May–Oct, 1pm-4pm, 410.758.1122
SUDLERSVILLE TRAIN STATION* MUSEUM (1885)
101 Linden Street, Sudlersville Open 1st Saturdays of the month May–Oct, 10am-2pm, 410.438.3501
JAMES E. KIRWAN MUSEUM (1889)*
641 Dominion Road, Chester Open 1st Saturdays of the month May–Oct, 1pm-4pm, 410.758.2502
*These venues are also open by appointment.
For more information,
visit WWW.HISTORICQAC.ORG
KENT FORT MANOR MARKER
The first trading post, settlement and fort of Queen Anne’s County,
and the third settlement of the
country folllowing Jamestown and Plymouth Rock. This post was
settled by William Claiborne, at the southern end of Kent Island in 1631.
NATIONAL HISTORY AT HOLE #14
If you were standing at hole #14 of Queenstown Harbor Golf Course on September 12, 1814, you would have SEEN and HEARD what Francis Scott Key described as he wrote the Star Spangled Banner.
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FUN FACT
Kent Island is the largest island in the Bay.
RELIVE HISTORY
