Archie Bell (Jerry)

Historical marker location:

18524 Brooke Rd, Sandy Spring, Maryland

( Marker is on Brooke Road, 0.1 miles west of Chandlee Mill Road, on the right when traveling west.)

[Sandy Spring Slave Museum & African Art Gallery].

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.