Menace on the Horizon

Historical marker location:

14200 Solomons Island Road South, Solomons, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Solomons Island Road South (Route 2) just south of Thomas Johnson Road, on the left when traveling south.)

Star-Spangled Banner National Historical Trail. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

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.