Creswell Hall

Historical marker location:

Elkton, Maryland

( Marker is on Delaware Avenue (Maryland Route 7) 0.1 miles east of Creswell Ave., on the right when traveling east.)

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.