Visit us on April 2nd from 1PM-4PM and learn about west Anne Arundel County’s colonial settlements in an 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 an 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 iron works, and inscribed boundary stones marking estates owned by prominent Annapolitans. These objects are tangible reminders of nonnative 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 served as heat transfer and storage devices in homes. Visitors also will learn about a ca. 1792 Quaker meeting house that later formed the nucleus of a nearby African American community.

Admission and tours are free. The Odenton Heritage Society Historical Center and Museum is located at 1367 Odenton Road. We hope to see you there!

To check out the rest of the Maryland Day weekend activities, visit their website: www.marylandday.org/what-is-maryland-day

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