Historical Marker

Wilde Lake

Historical marker location:
10022 Wilde Lake Loop, Columbia, Maryland
( Marker is on Wilde Lake Loop, 0.1 miles south of Hyla Brook Road, on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1967

June 21, 1967.

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.