By Kimberly Vance
On July 22, 1868, a black man by the name of Isaac Moore and an accomplice Ben Preston were accused of robbing and assaulting a woman crossing Bynum’s Run Bridge on Church Hill Road in Harford County, Maryland. Not much can be recollected about…

By Abigail Fackler
Garfield King was a resident of the Trappe District in Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland. Born in 1880, he graduated from Princess Anne “Colored” Academy and was highly thought of by his neighbors. On May 21st of 1898, King and others got into an…

By Christine Hallenbeck
The October 8, 1889 issue of The Baltimore Sun reported that Mary Morrison and her sister Hattie Rhodes were attacked by 56 year old Wright Smith during an attempted robbery at the residence of James and Mary Morrison in Anne Arundel County.…

By Briana Peters
Thomas Juricks was an African American who worked as a sharecropper to support his wife and six children. Juricks was working on Schoaff farm in Prince George’s County in 1869, when he had cut open his hand using a scythe. He tore off a piece of his…

By Stacy Jones
On October 3, 1907, 22-year-old William Burns and Jesse Page were drinking at multiple bars in the Canal Wharf area of Cumberland Maryland. While at Kate Preston’s bar, William Burns became disorderly and was told to leave the bar. Police Officer…

By Bryan Castro-Velez
Charles Whitley was originally from Stafford Circuit, Virginia. At the approximate age of 19 he worked as a chef for the Lyles, a white family who considered him to be an intelligent and skilled young man. He was trusted by the family and was…

By Destiny Brooks
An African American man by the name of George Peck lived in an area called Poolesville located in Montgomery County, Maryland. Peck was documented in the 1867 census being enslaved by William Poole. There are unknown whereabouts of his family being…