Battery Nicholson

Historical marker location:

Fort Howard, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Fort Howard Park Road, 0.6 miles south of North Point Road (Old Maryland Route 20).)

Marker installed: 1981

Maryland was once a center of the slave trade: Maryland was one of the thirteen colonies that allowed slavery, and by the mid-18th century, it had become a major center of the domestic slave trade. Maryland slave traders sold enslaved people to plantation owners in other southern colonies and to the Caribbean.