Our first open house of the New Year will feature the Lost Hammond Mansion Display. An 18th century “lost mansion” on a plantation that later became the U.S. Naval Academy Dairy in Gambrills will be the focus of a display at the Odenton Heritage Society during on Sunday, January 5.The prominent Hammond family of Annapolis completed the mansion by approximately 1730. Generations of descendants, including Matthias Hammond, owner of the Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis, resided at the plantation, as did…

In 1840, a steam railroad branching off the Baltimore and Ohio reached Annapolis, shrinking time and distance and effectively bringing the city closer to Baltimore and Washington. At the Odenton Heritage Society’s open house on Sunday, February 2, a new display, “By Rail to Annapolis,” will explore social and technological changes that the new railroad brought.  From the birth of telegraphy to electronic journalism, railroad-mounted artillery, prisoner of war transport, and crops shipped to market by rail, the fledgling railroad…

Sunday, March 2, the Odenton Heritage Society will recognize the contributions of Jewish immigrants and their descendants to Odenton’s business community. Spanning more than 150 years, the display will show how daily life changed with the opening of Odenton’s first bank, two large, popular general stores, and a factory that employed hundreds while satisfying demand for modern plastic materials. Learn about the Silver, Brodsky, and Winer families and why they came to Odenton. Study the connection between Odenton’s bank and…