LINKS, ARTICLES, PDF'S RELATED TO
CHARLOTTE HALL HISTORY
The Maryland Gazette (Annapolis, MD)- 30 November 1748
The primary coordinate point for Charlotte Hall is located at latitude 38.481 and longitude -76.778 in St. Mary's County. The formal boundaries for the Charlotte Hall Census Designated Place encompass a land area of 5.06 sq. miles and a water area of 0.01 sq. miles. St. Mary's County is in the Eastern time zone (GMT -5). The elevation is 167 feet.
In 20 October 1698, The Maryland General Assembly authorized purchase of land adjoiningCoole Springs in Charlotte Hall and building a hospital. Prior to be known as, called Charlotte Hall.............the region was called The Coole Springs, which formally predating the name of the town of Charlotte Hall, Charlotte Hall School by over 75 years.
The Maryland Historical Marker states the following: Waters of exceptional purity and reputed healing quality led to the establishment near here (Coole Springs) of one of the earliest hospitals in the North American Colonies, authorized by the General Assembly 20 October 1698.
This would suggest there was some sort of a working hospital in the Charlotte Hallarea prior to 1700. If you consider the timeline this would have supported any hospital persons, patients having to co-exist with the local Native American's- Piscataway-Conoy Tribe(Piscataway, Patuxent, Chaptico, etc.) in the area.
The accepted 20th century designation of a "native" St. Mary's Countian is one whose ancestry can be traced on county rolls pre-Revolutionary War era. The real designation of "native" belongs to its Native American, Indian habitation. This area was owned by the Piscataway Nation. The Piscataway Chief or Tayak resided on the Piscataway Creek in Prince Georges County, Maryland. Many of their villages were located along the Patuxent, Potomac, Wicomico Rivers, Breton and St. Clement's Bays. The Chopticon Indians had a village near Chaptico Bay and the chief village of Secowacomco was located near the Wicomico River. The Yaocomico Indians lived in a village on the banks of St. Mary's River which Governor Leonard Calvert purchased in 1634 and renamed St. Mary's City.
Choptico Bay. The Chopticon people were not a large group, estimated at 2,000 in 1600. This tribe of Native Americans spoke the Algonquian language or at least a dialect of it. This language had no written form so it remains for such men as William Strachey, John White, Edwin Dalrymple, Andrew White, and others to record what little exists of how the language sounded. Due to the practice by the English to spell names of tribes phonetically, there were variations of the name Chopticon which included Choptico or Chaptico.
On January 9, 2012, the Governor officially recognized two tribes of Piscataway heritage: the Piscataway-Conoy Tribe (which includes the Cedarville Band of Piscataways), and the Piscataway Indian Nation (Executive Order 01.01.2012.01; Executive Order 01.01.2012.02). They are the first tribes recognized by Maryland.
The need for a hospital in St. Mary’s County........................... predated the establishment of one by at least a half-century. Father Andrew White (1579-1656) leader of the Jesuits who came over from England on the Ark, in addition to his mission of ministering to the spiritual needs of theearly Maryland colonists strongly recommended to Lord Baltimore that a hospital be established where the sickcould be confined and kept on proper diets until completely well. Left to themselves Father White said, “the sick ignored the dietary rules that were not pleasing to them and their recovery was thus impaired.”
Sebi Medina-Tayac of the Piscataway Nation, speaks on the significance of St Ignatius Church to Native people and Southern Maryland's history. July 5, 2017 marked the 377 year anniversary of the Baptism of Kittamaquund, the Piscataway "Tayac" by Father Andrew White on July 5, 1640. The events surrounding Kittamaquund's conversion predate the constitution by a 136 years and is a relatively unknown history, of the oldest continuously operating Parish in the United States (St Ignatius). Filmed & Edited (November 2016) by Asher Underwood. IndieGenius.media
Father Andrew White in addition to ministering the spiritual needs of the colonists played a major role in the conversion of and establishment of friendly relations with the local Indian tribes. He also journeyed up the Patowmeck River and converted Piscataway Chief Kittamaquund where he embraced Christianity, manifested by baptism and marriage in that faith. Later on in the winter of 1697-1698 there was a serious outbreak of disease in the Maryland colony (St. Mary’s City, etc.) The colonists called the “pestilence” and the mortality rate was high. The 17th century epidemic probably influenza frightened the colonists into the recognition of the need of a hospital.
Dennis Griffith's Map of St. Mary's- 1794 (Note no Charlotte Hall)
Captain John Dent wrote the Maryland assembly informing them of the healthful qualities of some springs in St. Mary’s County. His correspondence was labeled “an idle letter” by the legislators in Annapolis (the Maryland capital moved from St. Mary's City to Annapolis in 1694-95) who observed that Captain Dent owned the land on which the springs was located.
The move of the State Capital from St. Mary's City to Annapolis (Anne Arundel County) was for the most part a result of the 1689 Protestant Revolution, takeover of Lord Baltimore's Provincial Government.
In 17th century England, Roman Catholics were considered enemies of the crown and traitors to their country. In Maryland, Lord Baltimore sought to create a haven for British Catholics and to demonstrate that Catholics and Protestants could live together harmoniously, even issuing the Act Concerning Religion in matters of religion.
When Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, founded the colony of Maryland, he expanded on his father's (George Calvert) ideas of freedom of religion and separation of church and state. In 1649, Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, 21 September 1649 also known as the "Act Concerning Religion." This act mandated religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians only.
The Maryland Toleration Act in 1649 drafted by Lord Baltimore, provided:No person or persons...shall from henceforth be any waies troubled, molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof. The Maryland Toleration Act was repealed with the assistance of Protestant assemblymen and a new law barring Catholics from openly practicing their religion was passed. The animosity between Protestants and Catholics in the United States of America, also called "American Anti-Catholicism," resulted from the English Reformation. British colonists were determined to establish a truly reformed church......
Afterwards in the 1689 Revolution all Catholics were removed from offices, replacing them with Protestants. In 1692 an Act was passed which established the Anglican Church as the official church of the colony ending the policy of religious toleration for Marylanders.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion or impeding the free exercise of religion. Adopted on 15 December 1791, it is one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.
In February 1694-1695 Governor Nicholson issued an order that the records and and archives be removed from St. Mary's to Anne Arundel Town. There existed a lack of sufficient accomadations and difficulty of access at St. Mary's City. Corner and poorest place of province and the motives expressed by the petitioners..........., etc.
However, word of the healing springs spread among the colonists and many people journeyed to the “Coole Springs” located in before and what is now Charlotte Hall in St. Mary’s County. They found five springs all located within thirty yards of each other, which gushed from a bank of sand and stone. The extraordinary cures among the people who had been attracted to the Coole Springs to recover their health reached the Governor and his Council. Thelaw makers decided to purchase the property and establish a sanitarium there.(One has to wonder how far the hospital was from any English population as it was located to be distant from other settlers?)
Immediate action ordered by Governor Nicholson included the provision of ten Bibles for the use of the people who flocked to Coole Springs and the reading of twice daily prayers by some sober person hired to perform the task. He was to be paid twelve shillings, eight pence per day (roughly 76 pounds today or $102.00) and was commissioned with the additional responsibility of keeping a record of cures attributed to the healing waters.
Captain Dent had constructed a house to provide shelter for the colonists. Governor Francis Nicholson(See picture) offered to pay Dent to have a reading desk and some benches installed in his house to be used by the visitors and conductor of prayers.
By the summer of 1698 the epidemic had subsided. In the fall of 1698 Governor Nicholson proclaimed a day of thanksgiving for the end of the pestilence. He also proposed that “small tenements” be built at Coole Springs in the nature of a hospital. He offered to make a person contribution amounting to twenty-five pounds sterling (over $4,030.00 today) for the project.In November 1698 the (colonial) General Assembly enacted legislation providing for the purchase of fifty acres of land including the healing springs. Trustees were appointed to execute the purchase and to build and erect houses for the entertainment of………..poor and fuel for the firing and other necessary’s for their relief. Captain John Dent was paid twenty-five pounds for the proposed hospital site. (Source Regina Combs Hammett, “History of St. Mary’s County”)
Up until the first decade of the eighteenth century the citizens were almost entirely immigrants. Many of the newer countians arrived with enough capital to acquire land and begin plantations of their own. Most people who emigrated to Maryland originally, St. Mary's City, etc. were people of little prestige and wealth. Most wereindentured servants, a phrase invented to describe those people who wished to come to the new world, but did not have the means to pay their own passage and expenses. In order to secure transport they would indenture themselves to wealthy colonists promising to serve a specified number of years (usually five-seven years) in the service of their patrons in payment for the expense of emigration. Typically a plot of land (50 acres) was bestowed to the servant at the end of his/her servitude.
Amish families moved to St. Mary’s County from Lancaster, Pennsylvania beginning around 1940. They wereattracted by inexpensive land and less restrictive educational laws. This was the first Amish settlement outside of Pennsylvania in 100 years.
Evidently before automobiles, Budds Creek, Maryland International Raceway...............there was another style of racing popular in Charlotte Hall- horse racing. The History of Southern Maryland: Story by Kathy Warren. Reprinted from Spring 1999................
Excellent video by local St. Mary's Countian "Dickie Duke" regarding the early colonists in St. Mary's County and the
"Legend of Moll Dyer" the witch
County Times article from St. Mary's Historical Society (Leonardtown, Maryland)
Charlotte Hall Military Academey Wikpedia
U.S Department of the Interior National Park Service Architectural Data Form, CHMA
Charlotte Hall, Maryland Wikpedia
Maryland Historicical Trust, Charlotte Hall Historic District
Historical Marker Database, Village of Charlotte Hall, Three Notch Trail
Charlotte Hall- No Match for British Might
Ye Coole Springs of St. Maries, Charlotte Hall
St. Mary's County Historical Chronology
African American Heritage Guide (Southern Maryland)
Destination Southern Maryland, African American Experience
Descendants of slaves and slave owners discover legacy of Maryland’s Sotterley Plantation
1. The First Marylanders Were Native Americans
That’s right! Much like other regions of North America, the Paleo-Indians or Native Americans were the first inhabitants of Maryland. They most likely ventured to Maryland to hunt mammoth, caribou, and bison.
2. Maryland Became a British Colony in 1634
After the initial settlement of the Native Americans, Maryland caught the eye of European explorers, notably Giovanni de Verranzo and Captain John Smith. The state even became home to a fur trading post, which was established on Kent Island in 1631. But it wasn’t until 1934 that Maryland was formally colonized.
The colonization of Maryland started with George Calvert, the 1st Baron Baltimore, requesting King Charles I for proprietary rights to the land on the east of the Potomac River that would eventually be known as the Province of Maryland. Calvert’s primary object was to establish a safe colony for Roman Catholics who were persecuted in England.
Following George Calvert’s death in April 1632, King Charles I granted the royal charter to Maryland Colony to Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, on June 20 of the same year. Cecilius Calvert coined the name of the colony to honor Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of King Charles I.
Eventually, the first settlers to Maryland commenced their journey from the Isle of Wight on November 22, 1633, aboard two ships, the Ark and the Dove. The group, led by Leonard Calvert, Cecilius’s brother, set foot on St. Clement’s Island in Maryland on March 25, 1634. That’s why this date is celebrated as Maryland Day every year.
3. St. Mary’s City Was the Colonial Capital of Maryland
Annapolis, formerly known as Providence, wasn’t recognized as the official capital of Maryland until 1695. Instead, Leonard Calvert established St. Mary’s City as the colonial capital after purchasing land from the Yaocomico Indians. The city was designed to reflect the ruling government’s views on religious freedom.
4. The U.S. National Anthem Was Written in Maryland
Francis Scott Key, a Maryland-based lawyer and amateur poet, penned the words to his poem “The Defence of Fort McHenry” in 1814. The poem was widely published and soon came to be known as “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
Composer John Stafford Smith set it to the tune of “To Anacreon Heaven”, which further increased its popularity. Eventually, it was adopted as the U.S. national anthem on March 3, 1931.
The visual of the lone U.S. flag hovering over Fort McHenry after relentless attempts of the British troops to invade the fort inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem as a tribute. This happened during the War of 1812.
5. Baltimore Received the First Long-Distance Telegram
When Samuel B. Morse had to demonstrate how the telegraph worked to the Members of Congress in Washington D.C., he chose to send a 19-letter telegram to his assistant in Baltimore.
The message, which read “What hath God wrought”, was the first-ever long-distance telegram. It was transmitted over a distance of more than 40 miles. The event marked the beginning of a new era in communication technology.
US Airmail Service begins.................... The first airplane carrying US mail left the Washington Polo Grounds, now in West Potomac Park, on May 15, 1918. The airplane was a Curtiss JN-4HM “Jenny,” Signal Corps serial number S.C. 38262. Its pilot was Second Lieutenant George Leroy Boyle, Aviation Section, Signal Officer’s Reserve Corps, United States Army.
S.C. 38262 was a brand new airplane. It had been shipped by railroad from the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company’s plant in Hammondsport, New York, to Hazelhurst Field, Long Island, New York. The airplane was uncrated and assembled, then flown to Bustleton Field, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from down town Philadelphia.
The US Post Office Department created air mail service to speed up the delivery of mail traveling between Washington, Philadelphia, and New York. President Woodrow Wilson presided at this event that drew a large crowd of spectators to the southwest end of the Mall. US Army Lieutenant George L. Boyle piloted the inaugural flight, but it never reached Philadelphia. Boyle crash landed his Curtiss JN-4HM near Waldorf, Maryland.
The Curtiss JN-4HM had a cruise speed of 75 miles per hour (121 kilometers per hour) and maximum speed of 91 miles per hour (146 kilometers per hour). Its service ceiling was 7,500 feet (2,286 meters) and the airplane’s range was 155 miles (249 kilometers).
After taking off, though, Lieutenant Boyle turned toward the south—the wrong direction for Philadelphia. Boyle soon realized that something was wrong and he landed to try to orient himself. He took off again, but once again recognized that he was lost and landed again, this time, near Waldorf, Maryland. Landing in a soft field, his Jenny, #S.C. 38262 nosed over and the propeller was damaged.
(WHILE IN COLLEGE/"EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY" AND IN A TEXTBOOK WHICH HAS LONG SINCE BEEN GONE..................."NEAR WALDORF WAS ACTUALLY CHARLOTTE HALL, MARYLAND," WHERE LT. BOYLE WAS FORCED TO LAND DUE TO POOR NAVIGATION, INEXPERIENCE, WEAK PILOT SKILLS.). After a rough first day, the post office began moving mail by planes regularly. (Source: Internal Archive, National Parks Service, Date 05/15/1918)
LINKS, ARTICLES, PDF'S RELATED TO
.jpg)
or university (school). Hence, originally in 1914 the 
received its name from Charlotte Hall School, replacing Coole Springs.
Town of Charlotte Hall
to be known as, called Charlotte Hall.............the region was called The Coole Springs, which formally predating the name of the town of Charlotte Hall, Charlotte Hall School by over 75 years.
traced on county rolls pre-Revolutionary War era. The real designation of "native" belongs to its Native American, Indian habitation. This area was owned by the 
Native Americans spoke the Algonquian language or at least a dialect of it. This language had no written form so it remains for such men as William Strachey, John White, Edwin Dalrymple, Andrew White, and others to record what little exists of how the language sounded. Due to the practice by the English to spell names of tribes phonetically, there were variations of the name Chopticon which included Choptico or Chaptico. 
Today, the Piscataway still reside in Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, St. Mary's and Wicomico counties. From 1995 until 2015, the Piscataway operated the Piscataway Indian Museum and Cultural Center at Waldorf (Charles County), Maryland, in cooperation with the 
olics and to demonstrate that Catholics and Protestants could live together harmoniously, even issuing the Act Concerning Religion in matters of religion.
The Maryland Toleration Act in 1649 drafted by Lord Baltimore, provided:
Charlotte Hall
benches installed in his house to be used by the visitors and conductor of prayers. 
twenty
bestowed to the servant at the end of his/her servitude.
US Airmail Service begins.................... The 
traveling between Washington, Philadelphia, and New York. President Woodrow Wilson presided at this event that drew a large crowd of spectators to the southwest end of the Mall. US Army Lieutenant George L. Boyle piloted the inaugural flight, but it never reached Philadelphia. Boyle crash landed his Curtiss JN-4HM near Waldorf, Maryland. 
recognized that he was lost and landed again, this time, near Waldorf, Maryland. Landing in a soft field, his Jenny, #S.C. 38262 nosed over and the propeller was damaged.
.jpg)
