White's Ford

Historical marker location:

Dickerson, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Martinsburg Road, on the right when traveling south.)

A Civil War Crossing and a Desperate Escape. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.

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.