Historical Marker
The Stone House
Historical marker location:
339 South Seton Avenue, Emmitsburg, Maryland
( Marker can be reached from South Seton Avenue (Business U.S. 15) 1.8 miles Catoctin Mountain Highway (U.S. 15), on the right when traveling north.)
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.