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Baltimore, MD
Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849 at what was then Washington College Hospital after being found delirious several days earlier, and the circumstances of his final days remain disputed. The original hospital is gone, but a plaque on the later hospital complex marks the location traditionally associated with the room where Poe died.
Cambridge, MD
The current post windmill is a reconstruction of a 19th-century mill destroyed by a blizzard, surrounded by a collection of relocated and restored historic buildings. The grounds are generally accessible from dawn to dusk, while buildings and milling demonstrations have more limited schedules.
Clinton, MD
Mary Surratt's country home and tavern became a meeting point and supply stop connected to the Lincoln assassination conspiracy. Restored as a museum, it focuses on the Surratt family, the Confederate underground and Booth's escape; current public access is limited to scheduled tour and walk-in hours.
Jefferson, MD
Journalist George Alfred Townsend erected this unusual stone arch in 1896 as a memorial to journalists and artists who covered wars. The roughly 50-foot monument now stands in Gathland State Park beside the Appalachian Trail and can be visited from the park's public grounds.
Germantown, MD
The remains of an early-19th-century saw and grist mill sit near Little Seneca Creek along the Black Hill trail system. The site is made darker by the 1920 dynamiting of the nearby miller's house, an attack that killed three people and eventually led to the execution of Guy Thompson.
