Tag: african american heritage

Location: 101 S Division St, Ocean City, MD 21842 Site Background: The Henry Hotel has stood at the corner of S. Division St. and Baltimore Avenue in downtown Ocean City, MD since 1916. In 1926 Mr. Charles Henry and his wife Emma, an African American couple living in Berlin, purchased the building creating a property that catered to ‘the better Read more...

Location: 325 Broad St, Salisbury, MD 21801   Site Background: Built in 1838, the Chipman Center is the oldest standing African-American church on Delmarva. It occupies the site of a former open meadow where slaves gathered for worship services conducted by Methodist circuit riders. In 1837 five local freedmen began holding services in a small red-pine slab building on the Read more...

Sturgis One Room School Museum, formerly known as Sturgis School, is the only African American One Room School in Worcester County retaining its original integrity. It is a small structure built about 100 years ago on Brantley Road on land that was purchased by William Sturgis in 1888. Sturgis One Room School operated as a school for 37 years. Grades 1 Read more...