Historical Marker
Montjoy Barn
Historical marker location:
10520 Old Frederick Rd, Woodstock, Maryland
( Marker is on Old Frederick Road (Maryland Route 99) west of Dorchester Way, on the right when traveling west.)
circa 1798.
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.