Historical Marker
The Pratt Through-Truss Bridge
Historical marker location:
Columbia, Maryland
( Marker can be reached from Old Guilford Road, 0 miles Guilford Road.)
Marker installed: 2003
Patuxent Branch Trail.
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.