90 haunted destinations cataloged across Maryland, spanning 22 counties. The collection features museum, haunted house, and haunted hotel — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.
Annapolis, MD
The James Brice House at 42 East Street in Annapolis was begun in 1767 and completed in 1774 for James Brice, who served as Mayor of Annapolis and as acting Governor of Maryland in 1792. The five-part Georgian mansion was constructed using enslaved labor and is a National Historic Landmark. It has been owned by the State of Maryland since 2014 and is stewarded by Historic Annapolis.
Urbana, MD
The Landon House (also known as the Stancioff House) was built in 1754 near the Rappahannock River in Virginia, where it served as a silk mill. In 1846 it was dismantled and barged up the Potomac to its present site at 3401 Urbana Pike in Urbana, Maryland. The house served as a girls' seminary and military institute before Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart hosted his Sabers and Roses Ball there on September 8, 1862. The next day it was converted into a Civil War field hospital for wounded from both armies.
Annapolis, MD
The Governor Calvert House at 58 State Circle was built in the early 18th century and occupied by Charles Calvert, Maryland's governor from 1720 to 1727. The property was incorporated into the Historic Inns of Annapolis collection in the modern era and operates as a boutique hotel. Restoration uncovered a hypocaust-style heating system beneath the lobby floor that the hotel identifies as one of the oldest examples in North America.
Frederick, MD
The current Greek Revival building at 101 North Court Street was constructed 1862-1864 by Thomas Dixon as the Frederick County Courthouse, replacing a 1785 Georgian courthouse destroyed by fire in 1861. The site has hosted Stamp Act protests in 1765, Revolutionary War Tory executions in 1781, and county judicial business through 1985, when a new county courthouse was built and the building became Frederick City Hall.
Annapolis, MD
The Shiplap House at 18 Pinkney Street is one of the earliest surviving buildings in Annapolis, dating to around 1715 and constructed by sawyer and innkeeper Edward Smith. By the 1780s it operated as the Harp and Crown tavern. Historic Annapolis Foundation acquired the building in 1957 and uses it as administrative offices; a re-created tavern room has been opened for public tours.
Frederick, MD
The current building at 154 West Patrick Street is a 1927 reconstruction of the home of Barbara Fritchie (1766-1862), the elderly Frederick woman immortalized in John Greenleaf Whittier's 1864 ballad for allegedly waving a Union flag at Stonewall Jackson's troops as they marched through town. The original home was destroyed by flooding; the reconstruction was built using surviving materials from the original. It was sold to private owners in 2018 and converted to a period-style rental.
Baltimore, MD
The Belvedere opened December 10, 1903 as a luxury Beaux-Arts hotel designed by Parker and Thomas in Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood. It hosted presidents, celebrities, and royalty for most of the 20th century. It was converted to condominiums in 1991 while retaining the Owl Bar and event venues. Multiple documented deaths — including suicides in 1909, 1918, and 1921, and the unsolved 2006 death of Rey Rivera — have given the building a strong public association with tragedy.
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The BJ's Wholesale Club at 4201 Wholesale Club Drive was constructed on the site of a former Baltimore trailer park. The warehouse facility provides membership-based retail services to the Baltimore metropolitan area.
Baltimore, MD
The Carroll Mansion is a Federal-period brick townhouse built circa 1811-1812 in what was then the eastern edge of fashionable Baltimore. Charles Carroll of Carrollton — the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence — used the house as his winter residence in his final years and died there on November 14, 1832. The building went through significant 19th- and 20th-century reuse, including as a tenement, before being preserved as a house museum.
Baltimore, MD
Cat's Eye Pub opened in 1975 in a 19th-century Thames Street building on the Fells Point waterfront, in a structure that earlier served as a private home and, according to local accounts, a mid-20th-century brothel. The bar has been a fixture of Baltimore's blues and roots-music scene for half a century and is a featured stop on Baltimore Ghost Tours' Fells Point Haunted Pub Tour.
Baltimore, MD
The east building of the former Church Home and Hospital was built in 1836 as the Washington Medical College and is the documented site of Edgar Allan Poe's death on October 7, 1849. The hospital operated continuously until 2000 and the building was converted to residential use in 2005.
Baltimore, MD
203 North Amity Street is a small brick rowhouse built circa 1830. Maria Clemm moved her family there around 1833, and Edgar Allan Poe lived in the house with his aunt, cousin Virginia, grandmother Elizabeth, and other relatives from roughly 1833 to 1835. The City of Baltimore later opened the house as a writer's museum in 1949, and it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972. Poe Baltimore now operates the museum.
Baltimore, MD
Fort McHenry, completed in 1800, is the star-shaped fortification at the entrance to Baltimore Harbor whose defense against British bombardment in September 1814 inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star-Spangled Banner." It later served as a Civil War prison and a World War I military hospital before being designated a National Monument and Historic Shrine in 1939.
Baltimore, MD
The Garrett-Jacobs Mansion at 11 West Mount Vernon Place was assembled from earlier rowhouses on Mount Vernon Place beginning in 1872 and progressively expanded by Mary Frick Garrett Jacobs and her husband Robert Garrett II into one of Baltimore's grandest Gilded Age homes. After Mary's death in 1936 the mansion was sold to the Engineering Society of Baltimore, which has maintained it as its clubhouse since 1962. Note: this is the Mount Vernon mansion; Mary Frick Jacobs' separate Uplands vacation home in West Baltimore was destroyed by fire in October 2023.
Baltimore, MD
The George Peabody Library is the research library of the Peabody Institute, founded as a free library by George Peabody in 1857. The current building opened in 1878 to a design by Baltimore architect Edmund G. Lind. The library is one of the most photographed library interiors in the United States, with a 61-foot neo-Greco atrium surrounded by five tiers of ornamental cast-iron stacks. Since 1982 it has been part of the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries.
Baltimore, MD
The Horse You Came In On Saloon at 1626 Thames Street in Baltimore's Fells Point Historic District has operated as a tavern since 1775, making it among the oldest continuously operating saloons in the United States and Baltimore's oldest bar. The current name dates to 1972 when owner Howard Gerber renamed the establishment, formerly Al and Ann's. The bar reportedly continued operating through Prohibition.
Baltimore, MD
The Lord Baltimore Hotel opened on December 30, 1928 as a 23-story French Renaissance Revival hotel designed by William Lee Stoddart for the Consolidated Realty Corporation. At opening it was the tallest building in Maryland. Less than a year after opening, the 1929 stock market crash inaugurated the Great Depression, and the hotel became the site of multiple documented suicides during that period. The hotel remains in continuous operation today and is a member of Historic Hotels of America.
Baltimore, MD
Max's Taphouse opened in 1986 in a 19th-century building at 737 South Broadway in Fells Point. The building had previously housed a restaurant, a boardinghouse, a reputed brothel, and — per local lore and tour-operator accounts — a chicken slaughterhouse. Max's grew into one of Baltimore's largest craft-beer bars over the following decades.
Baltimore, MD
The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland (MedChi) was founded in 1799 as the state medical society, making it one of the oldest in the United States. The current Cathedral Street building was dedicated in 1909 and includes the society's historic medical library and a top-floor apartment originally built for the live-in librarian Marcia Crocker Noyes.
Baltimore, MD
Built in 1855 at the mouth of the Patapsco River, Seven Foot Knoll Light is the oldest screwpile lighthouse in Maryland and the first ever built in the state. The cast-iron structure was relocated in 1988 to Pier 5 of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, where it now operates as a public museum.
Baltimore, MD
The USS Constellation moored at Pier 1 in Baltimore's Inner Harbor is the second U.S. Navy ship to bear that name. Launched in 1854 from the Norfolk Navy Yard, she is a sloop-of-war and the last all-sail warship built by the U.S. Navy. She served in the African Squadron suppressing the transatlantic slave trade, served Union duty during the Civil War, and was preserved at Baltimore beginning in 1955.
Baltimore, MD
Westminster Burying Ground was established in 1787 by the First Presbyterian Church of Baltimore and contains the graves of Revolutionary War officers, War of 1812 veterans, and Edgar Allan Poe. In 1852 the Westminster Presbyterian Church was built directly atop the cemetery on brick piers, creating the catacombs that preserve many of the original burials.
Baltimore, MD
Westminster Hall and Burying Ground combines a 1787 Presbyterian cemetery with an 1852 church building constructed directly above on brick piers. The complex contains the catacombs that preserve many original 18th-century burials and the grave monument of Edgar Allan Poe. The University of Maryland has stewarded the property since 1977.
Baltimore, MD
The William Fell occupies seven 18th- and 19th-century buildings on the Fells Point waterfront at South Broadway and Thames Street. The complex was a Port Mission boardinghouse and later the Seaman's YMCA (1929-1955), then sat largely vacant for two decades before reopening as the Admiral Fell Inn in 1985. After acquisition by Meyer Jabara Hotels and a full renovation, the property reopened in April 2025 as The William Fell, a member of Hilton's Tapestry Collection.
Frederick, MD
Ceresville Mansion is an 1888 country house on 26 acres along Israel Creek northeast of Frederick, Maryland. The 9,000-square-foot home anchors a working private wedding and events venue and sits beside an 1818 stone gristmill that was once among the most productive flour mills in the state.
Frederick, MD
Frederick's Court Square has been the town's courthouse ground since the colonial era. In June 1781, a Loyalist conspiracy known as the Tory Plot was uncovered, and seven men were convicted of high treason; four were pardoned and three — Caspar Fritchie, Peter Sueman, and Yost Plecker — were executed. The 1862-64 building on the square, now Frederick City Hall, served as the county courthouse for over a century; today a small marker notes the Revolutionary-era executions.
Frederick, MD
The Gaslight House at 118 East Church Street is an Italianate rowhome dating to the 1810s, expanded over time into an L-shape by the mid-1880s. The building passed through multiple owners over two centuries; since November 2021 it has operated as the Gaslight Gallery, a contemporary art venue.
Frederick, MD
The State of Maryland contracted for the Fredericktown barracks in 1777; the surviving L-shaped stone building was finished around 1781. During the Revolution it held British and German (Hessian) prisoners of war, and after the September 1862 battles of Antietam and South Mountain it served as a military hospital. The grounds became home to the Maryland School for the Deaf in 1867, and the barracks was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Frederick, MD
Hood College was founded in 1893 by the Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church as the Woman's College of Frederick, and was renamed in 1913 for benefactor Margaret Scholl Hood. The campus, originally located on East Church Street in Frederick's historic district, moved to its current 28-acre location after 1915. The oldest campus building, Brodbeck Hall, dates to 1868 and predates the college itself, having served as a German biergarten before its academic conversion.
Frederick, MD
Mount Olivet Cemetery was established in 1852 as Frederick's garden cemetery, replacing crowded church burial grounds in town. It is the burial place of Francis Scott Key (author of 'The Star-Spangled Banner'), Barbara Fritchie, Maryland's first governor Thomas Johnson, and 408 unknown Confederate soldiers reinterred from area battlefields. The Key monument was dedicated in 1898 and the Confederate monument in 1881.
Frederick, MD
The museum opened in 1996 in an 1830s building at 48 E Patrick Street known as the Carty Building. Before the Civil War the structure was owned by furniture maker and undertaker James Whitehill. During the war, embalmer Dr. Richard Burr worked from this location, treating Union dead after the battles of South Mountain and Antietam.
Frederick, MD
Schifferstadt is one of the oldest surviving houses in Frederick, completed in 1758 by Elias Brunner and his wife Albertina on the family's 303-acre farm tract. The Brunners named the property after their hometown in the German Palatinate. The Frederick County Landmarks Foundation purchased the house in 1974 and opened it as an architectural museum.
Frederick, MD
Dr. John Tyler, the first American-born physician to perform a cataract operation, built the Tyler Spite House in 1814 to block the City of Frederick's planned extension of Record Street through his land. The 9,000-square-foot, three-story brick home at 112 West Church Street features 14-foot ceilings, eight working fireplaces, and elaborate woodwork. It has operated as a private residence, an office building, and a bed and breakfast over its two centuries.
Frederick, MD
The Tivoli Theatre opened on December 23, 1926, built at a cost of over $350,000 by the Stanley-Crandall Company as the second-largest structure ever built in Frederick at the time. After 1976 flood damage, the theater was renovated and reopened in 1978 as the Weinberg Center for the Arts, named for Dan and Alyce Weinberg, who had bought the building in the late 1950s before donating it to the City of Frederick.
Frederick, MD
Winchester Hall was built starting in 1843 (cornerstone laid 1843; west wing completed 1850) to house the Frederick Female Seminary. After the September 1862 Battle of Antietam, the Union Army occupied the building as part of Frederick General Hospital No. 1. In 1887 workers digging behind the building unearthed sawn human arm and leg bones — remnants of wartime amputations. The building later housed the Women's College of Frederick (precursor to Hood College) before becoming Frederick County government offices.
Annapolis, MD
The Hammond-Harwood House at 19 Maryland Avenue is a five-part Palladian-plan mansion designed in 1774 by William Buckland for Matthias Hammond. Hammond was a wealthy Annapolis lawyer and slaveholder; he never moved into the completed house. The property passed through the Harwood family in the 19th century and has operated as a house museum since 1938. It is a National Historic Landmark and one of the most important surviving examples of Palladian architecture in North America.
Annapolis, MD
The Maryland State House at 100 State Circle in Annapolis is the oldest United States state capitol still in continuous legislative use. Construction began in 1772 and the building hosted the Continental Congress in 1783-84, when George Washington resigned his military commission here and the Treaty of Paris was ratified, formally ending the Revolutionary War. The signature wooden dome above the building is the largest all-wooden dome in North America.
Annapolis, MD
The structure at 33 West Street in Annapolis dates to the 18th century and has hosted brewer Benjamin Fordham (early 1700s), Supreme Court Justice and Maryland Constitutional signer Samuel Chase (1769), and the silversmith William Faris's Crown and Dial shop. By 1794 the building housed a 'Sign of the Green Tree' house of entertainment. Bill and Paula Muehlhauser bought the property in December 1989 and grew it into the Ram's Head Tavern and Rams Head On Stage venue.
Annapolis, MD
Reynolds Tavern was built in 1747 by William Reynolds, a hatter who leased the lot at Church Circle from St. Anne's Parish, and originally operated under the name Beaver and Lac'd Hat. After Reynolds's death in 1777 his widow Mary continued the tavern until her own death in 1785. Following two centuries of varied use, the building was repurposed as a tavern in 1984 and continues to operate as a restaurant, pub, tearoom, and inn.
Annapolis, MD
St. Anne's Parish in Annapolis was established in 1692 as one of the original 30 parishes of the Maryland Established Church. The current building at 1 Church Circle is the third on the site, completed in 1859 after the previous building was destroyed by fire on Valentine's Day 1858. The historic churchyard has been in use since 1692 and contains the graves of colonial governors and other notable Annapolitans.
Annapolis, MD
The William Paca House at 186 Prince George Street is a five-part Georgian brick mansion built between 1763 and 1765 by William Paca, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Maryland's third governor. The estate originally included a two-acre formal pleasure garden, which Historic Annapolis reconstructed in the 1970s. The property is a National Historic Landmark and is operated as a house museum by Historic Annapolis.
Annapolis, MD
The Maryland Inn in Annapolis was built in 1772 by Thomas Hyde, a merchant and civic leader, on the prominent Church Circle at the top of the colonial city's street plan. It holds the distinction of being America's longest continuously operating hotel and was named to the National Register of Historic Places. It is part of the Historic Inns of Annapolis collection alongside the Governor Calvert House and Robert Johnson House.
Annapolis, MD
Middleton Tavern occupies a 1740 brick building at the Annapolis waterfront, opened as a public house in 1750 by ferry operator Horatio Middleton. It is the oldest continuously-operating tavern in Maryland, located on a documented colonial ferry route that brought George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and members of the Continental Congress through its doors on the way to and from Philadelphia.
Annapolis, MD
John Paul Jones, the Revolutionary War naval commander often called the father of the American Navy, died in Paris in 1792 and was buried in an obscure cemetery later lost to development. In 1905 his remains were located and exhumed, returned to the United States, and after years in a temporary vault were interred in 1913 in a marble crypt beneath the United States Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis.
Easton, MD
The Avalon opened in 1921 as a vaudeville and silent-film house on Dover Street in Easton. It was redesigned in an Art Deco style in the 1930s, closed in the 1980s, and reopened as a nonprofit performing-arts center operated by the Avalon Foundation.
Easton, MD
Foxley Hall, at 24 North Aurora Street, is one of Easton's best-known Federal dwellings, built about 1795. It was the home of Oswald Tilghman, great-grandson of Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman, the Revolutionary War aide to George Washington.
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Easton, MD
The current Talbot County Courthouse at 11 North Washington Street was completed in 1794, replacing an earlier 1711-12 courthouse, and was later enlarged with wings in 1958. On May 24, 1774, leading Talbot County citizens led by Matthew Tilghman met at the courthouse and adopted the 'Talbot Resolves,' an early Maryland statement of solidarity with Boston against British coercion. The courthouse and its adjacent old jail anchor downtown Easton's historic core.
Easton, MD
The Tidewater Inn stands on the site of the Hotel Avon, an 1891 hotel that anchored Easton's hospitality for roughly fifty years until fire destroyed it in 1944. Local businessman A. Johnson (Arthur) Grymes broke ground in 1947, and the Colonial Revival brick hotel opened on September 3, 1949, with a north addition following in 1953. The Tidewater Inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
Hagerstown, MD
The Jonathan Hager House in Hagerstown City Park was built by Jonathan Hager beginning in 1739 — construction is documented as starting that year with the house presented publicly in 1740 — making it one of the oldest surviving structures in western Maryland. Jonathan Hager founded the town of Hager's Town (later Hagerstown) in 1762 on land he owned. He sold the house in 1745; it subsequently housed the Hammond family in the 1840s and the Downin family during the Civil War era. The city opened it as a museum in 1962.
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Miller's Church was a Mennonite congregation established in Washington County, Maryland, documented among at least four Mennonite churches in the county by 1888. The congregation formed part of the broader Mennonite settlement in Washington County dating to the mid-18th century. The church burned down at an unknown date; the graveyard, a large oak tree, and a parking lot are all that remain.
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Rose Hill Cemetery was chartered on March 16, 1866, on farmland known as Wroe's Hill, and was the first place in Hagerstown where residents could be buried regardless of race or religion. In 1867 a Baltimore landscape architect laid it out as a garden cemetery. The State of Maryland purchased the adjoining Washington Confederate Cemetery in 1871, where 2,468 Confederate dead from Antietam and South Mountain are buried; its monument was dedicated in 1877.
Hagerstown, MD
The Maryland Theatre opened in 1915 in downtown Hagerstown as a vaudeville and movie house, with a Neoclassical interior. It closed in 1974, and a fire the following year destroyed the adjoining lobby and apartment building, killing one person, though firefighters saved the theatre itself. A smaller lobby was later rebuilt, and the restored auditorium seats about 1,300 today.
Cumberland, MD
The Gordon-Roberts House at 218 Washington Street in Cumberland is an 1867 Second Empire mansion built by attorney Josiah Hance Gordon. It stands in the Washington Street Historic District and has been owned and operated as a house museum, known as History House, by the Allegany County Historical Society since 1954.
Cumberland, MD
Puccini Restaurant occupies the Hinkle House, a farmhouse built in 1819 by Jacob Hoblitzel on land originally granted to Revolutionary War officer Colonel William Lamar. Later owned by farmer George Hinkle, the house served as a temporary hospital for Union and Confederate wounded after the Battle of Folck's Mill on August 1, 1864. It opened as a restaurant in 2006.
Cumberland, MD
Built in 1913 to a design by Baltimore architect C. M. Anderson, the station opened the Western Maryland Railway's through service between Baltimore and Chicago. It sits on a filled-in basin at the eastern terminus of the C&O Canal and now houses the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad and the Canal Place visitor center.
Burkittsville, MD
On September 14, 1862, Union forces fought through South Mountain at Crampton's Gap, losing 2,325 men in the assault that cleared Confederate defenders and preceded the Battle of Antietam by six days. Civil War journalist George Alfred Townsend later purchased the land and built his estate, Gapland, on the former battlefield. His 1896 War Correspondents' Memorial Arch was the first monument in the United States honoring journalists who covered a war. The estate is now Gathland State Park.
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Spook Hill sits on Gapland Road near the Burkittsville Historic District in Frederick County, Maryland. The area saw Civil War action during the Battle of South Mountain (September 14, 1862), and Burkittsville itself gained wider cultural recognition as the setting for the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project.
Ellicott City, MD
Mount Ida is a Greek Revival mansion built in 1828 for William Ellicott, grandson of Ellicott City co-founder Andrew Ellicott, by mason Charles Timanus, who also built the neighboring Patapsco Female Institute. Judge John S. Tyson moved his family in during the 1850s; his youngest daughter, Ida Tyson, was the last family resident and the house's namesake. The house is now owned by Howard County.
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Ellicott City, MD
The Patapsco Female Institute opened in 1837 as a Greek Revival girls' school in Ellicott City, run for years by educator Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps with an academic rather than finishing-school curriculum. It closed in 1891 and passed through uses as a summer hotel, residence, hospital, and theater before Howard County bought it in 1966. The roofless stone ruins are now the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park, listed on the National Register in 1978.
Scotland, MD
Point Lookout Lighthouse, built by John Donahoo in 1830, marks the cape where the Potomac River meets the Chesapeake Bay. During the Civil War the cape served as a Union hospital and Confederate prisoner-of-war camp, where nearly four thousand prisoners died and were buried on the grounds.
Scotland, MD
Point Lookout occupies the southern tip of the St. Mary's County peninsula at the confluence of the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River. The Point Lookout Light was built in 1830. During the Civil War, the United States operated Camp Hoffman on the site from 1863 to 1865, a prisoner-of-war camp that held over 52,000 Confederate soldiers; nearly 4,000 died and are buried at the site. The peninsula was protected by three earthen forts including Fort Lincoln, partially reconstructed today. The Civil War Museum and a state park preserve the location.
Sharpsburg, MD
On September 17, 1862, the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland became the single bloodiest day in American military history, with 23,100 men killed, wounded, or missing in a 12-hour engagement between Union and Confederate forces.
Sharpsburg, MD
Antietam National Battlefield preserves the site of the September 17, 1862 Battle of Antietam, in which combined Union and Confederate casualties reached 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing — the bloodiest single day in American military history. The Union strategic victory ended Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North and gave President Lincoln the political opening to issue the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation five days later.
Westminster, MD
Avonlea sits within the Furnace Hills district of Carroll County, Maryland, an area named for the eighteenth-century iron furnaces operated by English transplant Legh Master. Master arrived from England in 1765 and built a mansion on the property, where he lived until his death in 1796.
Westminster, MD
Cockey's Tavern dates to the 1830s on Westminster's East Main Street and operated as a hostelry, store, and tavern at least through 1877. The oldest section of the building enlarged a simple log structure into the present form, and a third floor was added around 1905. Local tradition holds that Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart used the building as a temporary headquarters during the cavalry march to Gettysburg in June 1863. The Historical Society of Carroll County operates the Shop at Cockey's in the building today.
Boonsboro, MD
Founded as early as 1732 on the route that became the National Road, the Old South Mountain Inn served as a stagecoach stop visited by Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and U.S. Presidents. It was seized by John Brown's raiders in 1859 and used as Confederate General D.H. Hill's headquarters during the 1862 Battle of South Mountain. In 2023 the Maryland DNR acquired the property for use as a park visitor center.
Catonsville, MD
Mount de Sales Academy was founded in 1852 by Visitation Sisters from Georgetown as the first Catholic institution in Baltimore County to educate young women of all denominations. The main building, completed in three construction phases and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, rises four stories on one of Catonsville's highest parcels. Its central chapel remains the oldest place of worship in continuous use in Baltimore.
Clinton, MD
Built in 1852, this Prince George's County property served as Mary Surratt's farm, tavern, and Confederate safe house during the Civil War. On the night of April 14, 1865, after shooting President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, John Wilkes Booth stopped here to collect a rifle and field glasses stored in advance. Mary Surratt was convicted of conspiracy in the assassination and hanged on July 7, 1865 — the first woman executed by the United States federal government. The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission has operated the building as a public museum since 1976.
Cockeysville, MD
The Baltimore County Almshouse was built in the early 1870s as the county's third and last poorhouse, opening to residents in 1874. It housed the elderly, indigent, mentally ill, and dependent children for eighty-four years before closing in 1958. Since the 1960s the building has served as headquarters for the Historical Society of Baltimore County.
Crownsville, MD
Crownsville Hospital Center opened in 1911 as the Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland — the third asylum in the United States built exclusively for African-American patients. It practiced lobotomies, pneumoencephalography, and insulin shock therapy. Many patients who died at the hospital were buried in numbered graves on-site or used in medical research. The facility closed in 2004; Anne Arundel County now operates the campus as Crownsville Hospital Memorial Park.
Elkridge, MD
Belmont was built in 1738 as the manor house of an estate originally patented as 'Moore's Morning Choice,' for Caleb and Priscilla Dorsey of Elkridge. One of Maryland's finest Colonial Georgian houses, it passed through the Dorsey, Hanson, and Bruce families, was donated to the Smithsonian in 1964, and is now the 68-acre Belmont Manor and Historic Park owned by Howard County.
Essex, MD
The Ballestone-Stansbury House was built around 1780–1800 by farmer Dixon Stansbury on a 420-acre tract originally patented in 1659. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, the Federal-style brick home is now a Baltimore County museum within Rocky Point Park, receiving approximately 4,500 visitors annually.
Fort Washington, MD
The Fort Washington Lighthouse stands on the Potomac River below Fort Washington, Maryland. The original 1857 light, authorized by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, was replaced repeatedly; the present 32-foot wooden pyramidal bell tower was built in 1882. The station was unmanned in 1954, transferred to the National Park Service in 2005, and the Coast Guard removed the active light in 2020.
Frostburg, MD
The hotel opened on New Year's Day 1897, built by William R. Percy, and after his death that year was run as the Hotel Gladstone. William R. Gunter bought it around 1900, renamed it, and over two decades added electric lighting, a 175-seat dining room, a pressed-tin ceiling and a mahogany bar. The basement once held prisoners in transit on the National Road and an underground Prohibition-era bar; it was restored beginning in the 1980s and again under owners who purchased it in 2019.
Gaithersburg, MD
Gaithersburg High School, the second high school established in Montgomery County, Maryland, was founded in 1904 with its first classes beginning in fall 1905. The current building was constructed in 1951 and underwent a full modernization in 2013. The original Gaithersburg School building, established earlier on a different site, was destroyed by fire in 1895 with no reported injuries.
Germantown, MD
The Waters House is the oldest house in Germantown, Maryland, with the original section dating to the mid-1790s. Built by Basil Waters on land inherited from his father William Waters of Brookeville, the home and 200-acre Pleasant Fields farm represents mid-1800s farm life. The Montgomery County Historical Society now uses the property as the Waters House History Center.
Hollywood, MD
Historic Sotterley is the only tidewater plantation in Maryland open to the public, with a 1703 Manor House and an 1830s slave cabin standing on 94 acres above the Patuxent River. It is a National Historic Landmark and a UNESCO Site of Memory tied to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Kingsville, MD
The Jericho Covered Bridge was built in 1865 across the Little Gunpowder Falls on the Baltimore-Harford county line, the last remaining covered bridge in the area. Authorized in 1864 and contracted to Baltimore machinist Thomas F. Forsyth for $3,125, the roughly 88-foot Burr-truss span sits near Jerusalem Mill and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Mount Savage, MD
The Castle at Mount Savage was built in 1840 as a stone house for the Union Mining Company's company doctors. In 1898 it was purchased by Scottish immigrant Andrew Ramsay, who remodeled it into a replica of Craig Castle near his birthplace in Scotland. The property is on the National Register of Historic Places and has operated as a bed and breakfast since 1984.
Perry Hall, MD
Construction of Perry Hall Mansion began in 1773 by Corbin Lee on a 1,000-acre Baltimore County estate. After Lee's death later that year, his widow sold the estate to Baltimore merchant Harry Dorsey Gough, who completed the 16-room five-part Georgian mansion. A 1839 fire destroyed roughly 60 percent of the structure, which was rebuilt in Greek Revival style. Baltimore County purchased the dwindled four-acre property in 2001 and is restoring the mansion as a museum and community center.
Piney Point, MD
Piney Point Lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse on the Potomac River, built by John Donahoo in 1836 to warn vessels of the shoals at Piney Point and Ragged Point. Decommissioned by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1964, it is now a museum operated by St. Mary's County and a stop on the NPS Chesapeake Gateways network.
Port Deposit, MD
The Union Hotel is a log building in Port Deposit, Maryland, dating to roughly 1790, that served river merchants and seamen along the Susquehanna as a tavern and hotel. It took the name 'Union Hotel' in the mid-1800s under a descendant of the Gillespie family. After a period of abandonment and vandalism in the 1970s, it was restored and reopened as a tavern in 1981.
Salisbury, MD
The Wicomico County Courthouse on North Division Street in downtown Salisbury was built in 1878 and remains the county's seat of justice. It anchors the city's historic core and, with the site of an earlier jail nearby, has become a fixture on Salisbury's downtown ghost walks.
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The Snow Hill Inn building at 104 East Market Street in Snow Hill, Maryland dates to approximately 1835. Over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the property served as a private home, post office, apartment building, and inn. The Aydelotte family occupied the property during the early twentieth century. The building operated as a restaurant and inn through the late twentieth century and was vacated shortly after a 2005 National Geographic 'Is It Real?' broadcast featuring the property.
Solomons, MD
Drum Point Lighthouse is one of three surviving Chesapeake Bay screwpile lighthouses, originally commissioned in 1883 at the mouth of the Patuxent River, Maryland. The hexagonal cottage-type light was decommissioned in 1962 and moved 2 nautical miles upriver to the Calvert Marine Museum in 1975, where it was restored and reopened to the public in 1978.
Sykesville, MD
Springfield Hospital Center opened in 1896 as The Second Hospital for the Insane of Maryland on a 1,300-acre estate in Sykesville, Carroll County. At its peak the campus housed up to 4,000 patients. A series of Baltimore Sun exposés in the 1940s — published under the headline 'Maryland's Shame' — documented deplorable conditions including overcrowding, abuse, and neglect. The facility continues operating today as a forensic psychiatric center serving approximately 250 patients.
Towson, MD
Hampton Mansion in Towson, Maryland was built between 1783 and 1790 by Captain Charles Ridgely and was the largest private home in the United States at completion. The Ridgely family held the estate for seven generations. Hampton's prosperity was built on iron production, agriculture, and the labor of more than 300 enslaved people. The estate is now a National Historic Site administered by the National Park Service.
Upper Marlboro, MD
Linville Manor in Upper Marlboro, Maryland occupies a site with documented occupation dating to the late 1600s. The original structure burned under unclear circumstances; Sarah Marie Bowie-Johnson built the surviving center-hall Georgian Revival manor in 1852-1854 on the charred foundation. The property held approximately 50 enslaved individuals at the time of Charles's death, with a separate burial plot on the grounds.
Waldorf, MD
On April 15, 1865 — the morning after Lincoln's assassination — John Wilkes Booth and David Herold arrived at Dr. Samuel Mudd's Charles County farmhouse seeking treatment for Booth's leg, broken when he jumped from the presidential box at Ford's Theatre. Mudd set the fracture and the fugitives departed that afternoon. Mudd was arrested days later, tried by a military tribunal, and sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Jefferson in Florida's Dry Tortugas. He was released in 1869 after helping contain a yellow fever epidemic at the prison.
Woodsboro, MD
Grace Rocky Hill Lutheran Church Cemetery, also known as Rocky Hill Cemetery and Saint Peter Rocky Hill Cemetery, is a small rural cemetery at 10825 Coppermine Road in Woodsboro, Frederick County, Maryland. The cemetery's most-visited marker is a worn eighteenth-century stone in the Fox family plot, the subject of the longstanding bleeding-tombstone tradition.