Rockland buffet and tour announced

March 17, 2008

Preservation Maryland invites you to a

Buffet Luncheon and Tour of Rockland
9030 Sharpsburg Pike in Fairplay, Maryland
Saturday, April 19, 2008
1:00-3:00 pm
$25 per person

Please RSVP to Jessica Bentz at 410-685-2886 or jbentz@preservationmaryland.org by April 14th

Rockland

Rockland is a three-story stone Federal-style house built in 1803 by Colonel Frisby Tilghman (1773-1847), son of Maryland’s first Attorney General. Originally over 1,100 acres, Rockland was the largest slave holding estate in Washington County. In 1827, slave James W.C. Pennington escaped from Rockland and later wrote his autobiography, The Fugitive Blacksmith. Rockland is on the Maryland Inventory of Historic Sites and is designated an official site of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

See official invitation (pdf) for directions.

SHAF logo in blue

SHAF has been preserving and protecting historic sites related to the Battle of Antietam, the Maryland Campaign, and other Civil War activity in the region since 1986. We need your help to keep it going.

Robert E. Lee

Antietam Witness

This great battle was fought by less than 40,000 men on our side, all of whom had undergone the greatest labors and hardships in the field and on the march. Nothing could surpass the determined valor with which they met the large army of the enemy, fully supplied and equipped, and the result reflects the highest credit on the officers and men engaged.


- R.E. Lee

August 19, 1863