The Firehouse Museum

Historical marker location:

3829 Church Road, Ellicott City, Maryland

( Marker is on Church Road just north of Main Street, on the right when traveling east.)

Maryland was a border state during the Civil War: During the Civil War, Maryland was a border state that remained in the Union but had many sympathizers with the Confederacy. The state was strategically important because it was located between Washington D.C. and the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.