by David Baker | Aug 15, 2026 | Black History & Culture, Champions of Freedom & Civil Rights, Events, FeaturedEvent
The Caroline County Public Library and the Caroline County Historical Society are honored to welcome speakers Nicole King (University of Oxford) and Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of Edinburgh) for a program that explores the remarkable lives of the Douglass...
by David Baker | May 14, 2026 | Black History & Culture, Native American, Past Event
Join us as Robin Caudell will be discussing her book “Black Heel Strings: A Choptank Memoir” at the Museum of Rural Life, 2 N. 2nd Street, Denton, MD on June 25, 2026, at 6 PM. She will be discussing her memoir, as she traces her childhood in a Black...
by David Baker | Apr 19, 2026 | 20th Century, Black History & Culture, Past Event, WWII
Please join us on May 23rd, 2026, at 6 PM for a Memorial Day Weekend presentation on the 92nd Infantry Division, the Buffalo Soldiers, presented by Colonel (Retired) Robert D Rouse. The talk will cover the Division’s contributions to the World War II Italian...
by David Baker | Feb 6, 2026 | Black History & Culture, Past Event
Update – Due to significant damage to the trail from the recent storms, the walk has been cancelled. Numerous downed trees, limbs, and some sinkholes preclude having a safe trail, especially at dusk. All ticket holders have been contacted, and have been offered...
by David Baker | Jan 30, 2026 | Black History & Culture, Civil War, Past Event
The Talbot Historical Society presents A Living History of Nathaniel “Uncle Nace” Hopkins Starring: Darius Wallace This event is free to the public and will be held at 6 P.M. on Thursday, February 26th at Lockerman Middle School, 410 Lockerman Street, Denton, MD 21629...
by David Baker | Oct 18, 2025 | Black History & Culture, Past Event
by Kennedy Thomason | Jul 26, 2024 | A.M.E. Church, Black History & Culture, Champions of Freedom & Civil Rights, Civil Rights & Racial Justice, Kennedy Thomason Project, Quakers, The River is the Center by Kennedy Thomason, William Still, Women
Introduction The Choptank’s waters, once pathways for the arrival and auction of enslaved African people, later became lifelines guiding daring escapes to freedom. Throughout America’s earliest years, Caroline County and the Choptank River bore witness to...
by Don Barker | Mar 1, 2024 | Black History & Culture, Past Event
Event Cancelled September 14, 2024 4 – 8 pm for the Complete Tour Featuring these historic Caroline County sites: William Still CenterJames Webb CabinLinchester MillLeverton Home Each location has a story reflecting the struggles,...
by Don Barker | Nov 15, 2023 | Black History & Culture, Past Event
by Don Barker | Nov 1, 2023 | Black History & Culture, Black Schools, dbarker
Through 90 years of racial segregation and funding disparity, black schools in Caroline County were sacred ground in the fight for equal education, democracy, and civil rights. Eight are still standing. There were no public schools for enslaved or free blacks...
by Don Barker | Oct 14, 2023 | Black History & Culture, dbarker, Religion
I walked 16 miles from Easton to my father’s. I knocked at the door and said, “Who lives here?” Father answered by saying, “Who is that?” I said, “Me.” Then mother said, “That’s Alexander”– showing a mother never forgets her child. Read Bishop Wayman’s story...
by Don Barker | Oct 11, 2023 | Black History & Culture, Champions of Freedom & Civil Rights, dbarker, Women
She was born free in Caroline County. He was born across the river in Talbot, enslaved. They followed separate paths to Baltimore. Anna met Frederick for the first time at the city wharves. He was 19, she was 24. Frederick was an enslaved shipbuilder. Anna had a...
