Things To Do in St. Mary's County

History happened here. Though most of the 17th-century buildings of Maryland's first capital city are gone, their foundations covered by farmland, it was here that Cecil Calvert enacted laws that permitted anyone regardless of their faith to vote and participate in government. This…

This 1703 house is the only Tidewater-style tobacco plantation house still open to the public. The 1760 Chinese Chippendale railing is a marvel, as is the withdrawing room's intricate carving, which is estimated to have taken enslaved African Americans 20 years to complete. The…