Walking Tour: Lost History of Frederick Douglass & Port Deposit, Maryland

In this new walking tour learn about the lost history of the connections & visit of Frederick Douglass to Historic Port Deposit, Maryland.Walking tour will include information about the consequential connections of Frederick Douglass to Port Deposit native son John A. J. Creswell, who served as a Congressman and Senator from Maryland and the 15th United States Postmaster under the administration of President Grant, and Bishop Alexander Walker Wayman, who led Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Port Deposit before the Civil War.

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TOUR GUIDE:

John Muller, author of (2012) and Mark Twain in Washington, D.C.: The Adventures of a Capital Correspondent (2013), has presented historic lectures widely throughout the DC-Baltimore metropolitan area at venues including the Library of Congress, Enoch Pratt Library, DC Public Library, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site and local universities.

Muller is a frequent guest on Washington, D.C. radio stations and has been cited by the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Star Democrat, Salisbury Independent and other publications for his local history research and subject matter expertise. He has been featured on C-SPAN’s BookTV and C-SPAN’s American History TV, broadcast airwaves of NBC4 (Washington), WDVM (Hagerstown) and radio stations WPFW (DC), WAMU (DC), WYPR (Baltimore), WEAA (Baltimore), Delmarva Public Radio (Eastern Shore) and West Virginia Public Broadcasting. For the past decade Muller has contributed hundreds of articles to local and national print and online news sources, including the Washington Informer.

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STARTING POINT:

Tour will meet outside of the United States Post Office on 11 Main Street in Port Deposit.

PARKING:

Free parking is available in public lots throughout town and on the street.

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SPECIAL NOTE:

On July 29, 2025 the town of Port Deposit will be celebrating the bicentennial of the visit of Marquis De Lafayette from 12 Noon to 3:00 P.M.More information can be found -> https://lafayette200.org/event/bicentennial-of-lafayettes-farewell-tour-visits-port-deposit-md-2/

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