John S. Johnson House

Historical marker location:

612 60th Place, Fairmount Heights, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of 60th Place and Veterans Memorial Place, on the left when traveling north on 60th Place.)

612 60th Place. Historic Resource, Built 1911.

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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.