Join us on Sunday, March 22, as we celebrate Maryland Day Week! Discover western Anne Arundel County’s colonial settlements through our educational experience, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Odenton’s 18th Century Past.”

Costumed docents will provide a fun and engaging museum tour experience, where visitors will have the opportunity to ask questions. See historical objects and displays that shed light on an early road network still in use today, iron products made at a pre–Revolutionary War ironworks, and inscribed boundary stones marking estates owned by prominent Annapolitans. These objects serve as tangible reminders of non-Native people who inhabited the Odenton area long before there was a town.

Study surveying methods that used rods and boundary stones to calculate distance and direction, and discover how cast-iron firebacks functioned as heat-transfer and storage devices in early homes. Visitors will also learn about a ca. 1792 Quaker meeting house that later formed the nucleus of a nearby African American community.

Visitors can also enjoy engaging exhibits about Odenton’s railroads, homes, churches, schools, and the people who have shaped the town – past and present. Admission is free, and tours of our museum are led by costumed docents. We hope to see you there!

To learn more about other events during the Maryland Day 2026 celebration, https://marylandday.org.