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Signature. George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore ( / ˈbɔːltɪmɔːr /; 1580 – 15 April 1632) was an English peer and politician. He achieved domestic political success as a member of parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I. He lost much of his political power after his support for a failed marriage alliance between Prince ...
January 17, 1983. Designated BCL. 1975. Evergreen Museum & Library is a historic house museum and research library in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is located between the campuses of the Notre Dame of Maryland University and Loyola University Maryland. It is operated by Johns Hopkins University along with Homewood Museum; both make up ...
Founder of the Coca-Cola Company and philanthropist. Asa Griggs Candler Sr. (December 30, 1851 – March 12, 1929) was an American business tycoon and politician who in 1888 purchased the Coca-Cola recipe for $238.98 [ 1] from chemist John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. Candler founded The Coca-Cola Company in 1892 and developed it as a ...
Margaret Crittendon Douglass. Margaret Crittendon Douglass (born c. 1822; year of death unknown) was a Southern white woman who served one month in jail in 1854 for teaching free black children to read in Norfolk, Virginia. Refusing to hire a defense attorney, she defended herself in court and later published a book about her experiences. [1]
Butler, who was of Irish origin, was an indentured servant to Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore. [1] At around 16 years of age she announced her intention to marry a man referred to only as "Negro Charles". [2] A 1664 [b] Maryland law outlined the legal status of a free woman who voluntarily married an enslaved man: she would serve the ...
Signature. Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore(August 27, 1637 – February 21, 1715) was an English peer and colonial administrator. He inherited the province of Marylandin 1675 upon the death of his father, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. He had been his father's Deputy Governor since 1661 when he arrived in the colony at the age of 24.
The collection included art acquired by the family, particularly work by Old Masters, led by Gerrit Dou’s painting “A young woman holding a hare with a boy at a window,” which dates back to ...
Hampton National Historic Site. Hampton National Historic Site, in the Hampton area north of Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland, preserves a remnant of a vast 18th-century estate, including a Georgian manor house, gardens, grounds, and the original stone slave quarters. The estate was owned by the Ridgely family for seven generations, from 1745 ...