On this day in 1838, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and found his calling as a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. Douglass escaped slavery by boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. He was dressed in a sailor's uniform, provided to him by Anna Murray, (he married her 12 day ...
Samuel Shaw John O’Donnell initiated trade between Canton, China and Baltimore in 1785, operating his own merchant sailing vessels. While the Baltimore-China trade was short-lived, it involved many of our early Founding Fathers. On February 24, join John Danz to learn ...
https://www.mountvernon.org/ Take Metrorail's Yellow Line to Huntington Station. Exit at the lower level of the station (Huntington Avenue) to catch a Fairfax Connector bus to Mount Vernon. Board the Fairfax Connector Bus #101, the Fort Hunt Line, for a 20-minute trip to Mount Vernon ...
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/20009482 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/baltimore-and-ohio-railroad-civil-war The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (BO) was one of the oldest and most historically significant railroad co ...
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