First Fridays open up Leonardtown, MD, for a one-of-a-kind shopping and entertaining evening. This Friday the town’s business community will be open June 4 from 5 to 8 pm.
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Features · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
First Fridays open up Leonardtown, MD, for a one-of-a-kind shopping and entertaining evening. This Friday the town’s business community will be open May 7 from 5 to 8 pm.
Category Leader Features · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
First Fridays open up Leonardtown, MD, for a one-of-a-kind shopping and entertaining evening. This Friday the town’s business community will be open April 2 from 5 to 8 pm. Stop by to Sip, Shop, & Hop!
Category Leader Features · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
First Fridays open up Leonardtown, MD, for a one-of-a-kind shopping and entertaining evening. This Friday, the town’s business community will be open March 5, 5 to 8 pm.
Category Art & Lifestyle · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
The St. Mary’s County Historical Society held a virtual unveiling ceremony of the relocated Moll Dyer Rock on Feb. 26, 2021, at Tudor Hall in Leonardtown.
Category Leader Exclusives · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
Since it’s February, Leonardtown is lookin’ for love. Join the town’s business community for its “Lovin’ Leonardtown” First Friday celebration.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Leonardtown First Friday, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
The Chesapeake Bay region became the nation’s center for harvesting, processing, packing, and shipping oysters during the 19th century. This was especially true in waterfront towns on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that had railroad access. In St. Mary’s County, oyster packers got a later start.
Category Business & Tech, Leader Exclusives · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, oysters, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Robert Hurry, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
Lexington Park began as a single housing project, named for the Lexington, the Navy’s first really big aircraft carrier. The ship went down in 1942, before the housing project was completed, and in 2018 was found two miles deep on the floor of the Pacific.
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Exclusives · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
In 1942, the US government, by its right of eminent domain, confiscated a large area of the Eighth District of St. Mary’s County, MD, to be used by the US Navy as a test facility for aircraft. The government bought 6,412 acres for $712,287 consisting of 113 land tracts and home to 230 families. Somewhere within that 6,412 acres was Pearson — but where exactly?
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Pearson, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
Many residents in the north of St. Mary’s County assumed Pax River was a temporary, war-time arrangement, but Jack Daugherty, a Marine pilot stationed at the Pax at the end of the war, and other ex-Navy personnel thought otherwise, and decided to stay.
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Barbara Ives, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jack Daugherty, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Keith Buzby, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer, Walter Dorsey
