Thurmont Memorial Park

Historical marker location:

Thurmont, Maryland

( Memorial is on Main Street (Maryland Route 77) 0.2 miles east of Church Street (Maryland Route 806), 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.