Cummings Tavern

Historical marker location:

Port Deposit, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of Jacob Tome Memorial Highway (Maryland Route 276) and Dr. Jack Road, on the right when traveling south on Jacob Tome Memorial Highway.)

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.