Our Town We Call St. Mary's

St. Mary’s City is an almost magical place in the hearts and minds of the region’s residents. To be sure, St. Mary’s is significant because it served as the first capital of the Maryland colony, the site where “liberty of conscience” was established to encourage settlement of Catholics and Protestants. St. Mary’s is also important because of its later role as a tobacco and wheat plantation, powered by the labor of dozens of enslaved blacks. A place of extraordinary rural beauty, the St. Mary’s City landscape harbors stories of transformation, stories of hope, and sometimes stories of despair. The essays here are part of the ongoing process of memorializing this extraordinary and compelling place.

"Boat Maintenance and Other Urgent Matters: Four Years at St. Mary's College"
A Senior Project by David Scriver, 2004
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"Slavery in St. Mary's: An Analysis of a Slave Quarter Site in St. Mary's City, Maryland"
A Senior Project by Bree Detamore, 1999
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