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
Visit St. Mary’s MD will invest over $30,000 in the next five months in local promotion and over $200,000 in regional marketing. These promotional efforts will be funded by grants from the state of Maryland earmarked for marketing and promotions of St. Mary’s County as a travel destination and for the promotion of local businesses to residents and visitors.
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
A lot more than naval aviation was going on around Southern Maryland during World War II. Bob Tourville of the Pax River Naval Air Museum has photos and footage to prove it — flying boats, drones from the 1940s, and blimps retrieving torpedoes in the Potomac River.
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
St. Mary’s County Historical Society and the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum bring “Pax River’s Forgotten Cold War Warriors” to video to inaugurate the society’s Historically Speaking series.
Category Art & Lifestyle, Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Amy Davis, Barbara Ives, Bob Tourville, Christine Senese, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Historical Society, Historically Speaking, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, John Houser, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Pax River naval Air Museum, Pete Butt, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer
St Mary’s County Historical Society and the Lexington Park Lilbrary are hosting the traveling exhibit, Early Women of Architecture in Maryland through March 1; Exhibit curator Jillian Storms to speak March 1.
Category Leader Exclusives, Leader Features · Tags Barbara Ives, Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Christine Senese, Cremona Estate, Delores Magnani, Dr. John Roache, Dr. Robert Goldsmith, Ernest Bell, Gertrude Sawyer, Historical Society, Hon. Roy Dyson, Jason Babcock, Jillian Storms, John Houser, Jubilee Farm, Lexington Park Library, Michael Blackwell, Michael Mummaugh, Nancy Dodge, Patrick Woodburn, Peter Himmelheber, Peter LaPorte, Rose Greely, Silas Hurry, St. Mary's County Art Council, St. Mary's County Historical Society, St. Mary's County Libraries, St. Mary’s Historical Society, Susan Dyer, Tudor Hall
