We continue to update the content on the Historical Society's website. Here are the latest updates - click on a link to take you to that page.
- We now have a dedicated page for our online oral history exhibitions. First up are oral histories collected from residents of the Lexington Manor housing complex, also known as "the flattops", built in the late 1940's to house workers at the new Naval air station. Eight recorded audio interviews are featured along with biographies and transcripts. Coming soon will be approximately eighty oral histories recorded by the UCAC.
- In our Research Library are 19 file cabinets containing files on 1,135 families in St. Mary's County. These files contain family histories contributed by family members, newspaper clippings, articles and family genealogies. Our volunteers have been busy scanning these documents for months, and we now have last names A-D posted online! These will prove to be an amazing resource for those who cannot visit our research center in person. Check back often, as we are constantly adding new names.
- There is a new page about Pete Himmelheber, who passed away recently, and his legacy as a volunteer at SMCHS as well as Historic St. Mary's City. There is also access to Pete's web page, Radnor Forge, an online exhibition about everything historical Pete was involved in. Also check out Pete Laws, a collection of sayings Pete guided his life by.
- Religious Workers - Card file of 288 Catholic religious workers (e.g. priests, nuns), in St. Mary’s County from 1675 to 1975
- 300 Years of Black Cooking in St. Mary's County - The recipes presented in this cookbook were gathered from all areas of St. Mary's County. The presenters of the recipes represent a mother's, father's, grandmother's or a family's method of preparing dishes served in their homes as well as food preparation for other family and community events. Permission to post was granted by the St. Mary's County Board of Library Trustees.
- Southern Maryland African-American Heritage Guide - 28-page brochure highlighting important African-American historical locations within Charles, Calvert, and St. Mary's counties
- National Register of Historic Places - Map of 31 locations in St. Mary's County on the National Register of Historic Places
Archived Websites - This area features websites we have come across that are no longer hosted or maintained, but which have very useful information. We have obtained permission to re-host them here at SMCHS.
- St. Mary's Families - The website created by Linda Davis Reno which was online up to 2006. Mrs. Reno was a student of St. Mary's County history and was the author of The Maryland 400 in the Battle of Long Island 1776, and St. Mary's County in the Images of America series. Mrs. Reno also wrote hundreds of weekly articles for the County Times (look for them soon!). This no-longer-maintained website contains a wealth of information on land genealogy, the Maryland to Kentucky Migration Project, the 1705 map project, St. Mary's County will abstracts, St. Mary's County marriages, and the St. Nicolas RCC cemetery at NAS Patuxent River. There are also 18 articles she wrote about various topics in the county's history.
- Sothoron and Related Families - This now-defunct genealogy website for the Sothoron family features many pages dedicated to branches of the family from St. Mary's County. Check out the The Plains page on the Places tab to learn about the farm that is now the site of Golden Beach.
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