Your Maryland

During the Civil War, Montgomery County, Maryland native Rose O'Neal Greenhow worked as a spy for the Confederacy, sharing important military intelligence with fellow Southern sympathizers in Washington, DC. Part two of our story. 

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During the Civil War, Montgomery County, Maryland native Rose O'Neal Greenhow worked as a spy for the Confederacy, sharing important military intelligence with fellow Southern sympathizers in Washington, DC.

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Baseball phenom Jimmie Foxx got his start playing with the Easton Farmers in Queen Anne's County before breaking into the big leagues in the late 1920s with Connie Mack in Philadelphia. 

photo: University of Miami baseball coach Jimmie Foxx with FSU coach Danny Litwhiler in Tallahassee, Florida credit: State Library and Archives of Florida/Flickr/Creative Commons

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After moving to New York in 1890, the Preakness Stakes made its triumphant return to Pimlico in 1909.

(photo credit Ryan Dickey/Flickr/Creative Commons) 

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In 1840, William Gilmor held a tournament, replete with jousting, a quintain, and guests clad in Medieval garb, at his Vineyard estate in Baltimore, which was located near 29th Street and Greenmount in the Waverly neighborhood in Baltimore.

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After the Pratt Street Riot in Baltimore, Clara Barton attended to the Massachusetts volunteers when their train arrived in Washington, DC, and went on to found the American Red Cross. 

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On April 13, 1940, Monty R, a "family pet" born and raised in Maryland horse country, defeated the favored thoroughbred Blockade at My Lady's Manor in a shocking upset. 

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In March, 1857, a group of enslaved people from Dorchester County made their way to Dover, Delaware, along the Underground Railroad. 

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Between the 1880s and the 1920s, Dr. William S. Halsted revolutionized the practice of hygiene and medicine at Johns Hopkins hospital, all the while nursing a secret drug habit.

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