CHARLES COUNTY MARYLAND

The first Charles County was created by Cecil Calvert Second Lord Baltimore Oct 3 1650 It included all the present County as well as some of the counties of Calvert St Marys and Prince Georges Charles County today is located in southern Maryland between the Patuxent and the Potomac Rivers Dozens of knowledgeable volunteers contributed information on a variety of topics including agriculture and the tobacco industry transportation and the Potomac towns and villages religion and churches government Black history education sociality legend and folklore and genealogy The reader is introduced to many towns and given brief sketches of Port Tobacco Benedict La Plata Bryantown Indian Head St Charles and Waldorf Black history has been compiled from the fragments of oral and written data to give a glimpse from that perspective Newspapers clubs and auxiliaries and reminiscences are also touched on The text is further enhanced by photographs and illustrations poems recipes a bibliography and a subject index The chapter on genealogy sites numerous sources for research and provides the names of early settlers a guide to deciphering old documents the Census of 1850 by district listing free heads of families lists of late 1700s marriages grouped by minister and an 1878 list of physicians