Cornerstone from Wesley Chapel

Historical marker location:

9811 Van Buren Lane, Cockeysville, Maryland

( Marker is on Van Buren Lane, 0.1 miles north of Jefferson Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)

Historical Society of Baltimore County.

Maryland was a border state during the Civil War: During the Civil War, Maryland was a border state that remained in the Union but had many sympathizers with the Confederacy. The state was strategically important because it was located between Washington D.C. and the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.