Blue Blazes Whiskey Trail

Historical marker location:

14707 Park Central Road, Thurmont, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Park Central Road north of Foxville Road (Maryland Route 77), on the left when traveling north.)

Catoctin Mountain Park. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

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.