BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Hillsboro

MD -- Hillsboro:

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Description of Pictures: Frederick Douglass birthplace, historic marker, and Hillsboro Landing.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. HILLS_170317_07.JPG: Tappers Corner is considered to be the area where Frederick Douglass was born. Someone said the house on the left is pretty close. Something else said the field on the right.
2. HILLS_170317_16.JPG: Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895 Negro Patriot Attained freedom and devoted his life and talents to the abolition of slavery and the cause of universal suffrage. Visited England in 1845 and in 1859. Won many prominent friends abroad and at home. Was U. S. Marshall for the District of Columbia and U. S. Minister to Haiti. Was born in Tuckahoe, Talbot County.
3. HILLS_170317_27.JPG: Frederick Douglass "Tales of Horror" The anti-slavery movement was a major factor in the regional contention that led to the Civil War. During the 1840s and 1850s, no individual generated greater support in both America and Europe for that movement than Frederick Douglass. His eloquent speeches and writings were uniquely influential because they were based on his personal experiences as a Maryland slave from his birth near Hillsboro in 1818 until his escape from Baltimore in 1838. Many of Douglass' best known and most notorious descriptions of slave life were based on events in and around Hillsboro. His separation from his mother in 1824 and the division of his family among slaveholders in 1828 occurred 1.5 miles south of Hillsboro on the west side of the Tuckahoe River. Other events occurred just south of Hillsboro on the east side of the Tuckahoe, including the "murder" of his wife's cousin. The brutal beating of Douglass' brother Perry in 1828 by a drunken slaveholder may have occurred in the village of Hillsboro. These experiences, which Douglass called his "tales of horror," were graphically related in his 1845 and 1855 autobiographies as well as in his prolific essays and speeches. Doubtless, the residents of Douglass' sleepy home town (population 180) would have been shocked to know that the local experiences of a slave child would eventually be related to a worldwide audience and thereby help increase the sectional passions that resulted in the Civil War. Frederick Douglass began his first autobiography in 1845: "I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough..." Douglass' wife Anne Murray Douglass and her family were from "Tuckahoe Neck" just south of Hillsboro. [Note: This was Douglass' first wife.]
4. HILLS_170317_36.JPG: Hillsboro Landing
5. HILLS_170317_46.JPG: Have you seen this fish? We need your help to determine what impacts Northern Snakeheads are having on recreational fishing.
6. HILLS_170317_47.JPG: Attention Fishermen A minimum size limit for Black Bass has been established for Maryland Tidal Waters.
Wikipedia Description: Hillsboro, Maryland
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Hillsboro is a town in Caroline County, Maryland. The population was 161 at the 2010 United States Census. Daffin House and St. Paul's Episcopal Church were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

History

Hillsboro is the oldest town in Caroline County. Evidence shows that as early as 1694 there was an Anglican chapel-of-ease located on the Eastern bank of the Tuckahoe.

Commercially Hillsboro was the site of a tobacco warehouse, one or more general stores, a shoe factory, and a tavern, but its chief claim to fame lies within the spiritual and cultural fields.

The first newspaper to be published in Caroline County was published in Hillsboro in 1831 by Lucas Brothers.

Hillsboro previously known as Tuckahoe Bridge was named in the honor of Lord Hillsboro of the Calvert Family. In 1804 there was a fever epidemic in Hillsboro then again in 1816; both occurred in the same house the Seller residence. Hillsboro was the site of the Tri-County fair and the meeting place of Congressional Conventions.
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