Historic Sotterley — Attraction in Maryland

It's our history. Never destroy history, never. Such a place of character,beauty. Souls lived here. Honor them. We all pass and mostly forgotten with time and generations anew and anew ....You see, they are us , we are them. They were born, lived and walked this earth for a short while then passed into the arms of God✝️ So will we. Leave history. Do you want totally be forgotten as years pass, generations pass👣❤❤❤ As 50, 100, 200, 300 years, century after century have & will will go by. Most of us become an unknown to our future family of generations. Please remember this. Remember them and the sacred ground which their feet walked. Love to the ones not known. Love to the ones known. Love to the people who preserve the history of our Families.

Dana 👣🖐

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤🇺🇲 Erwin And Related Families: A Book.

Registered In The United States of America's Library of Congress🇺🇲 Written by my Grandmommie on my mom's side.

❤💪Took her over 20 years to write. Attaining, Researching all the genealogy & information. No ghost writer. Grandmommie did it all by herself💌🫂 ✝️🛡🕊🌬🌠👣 Author: Frances Erwin Evans ❤👣

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I traveled to the area all because of Sotterley, which I heard of in a book I read called Sunflower Sisters. We did the grounds and house tour with Eve who was a wonderful guide. We chose this rather than the self tour so that we could hear all the stories etc that you don't otherwise get. Not only a beautiful setting but full of history and stories that go back hundreds of years. The slave cabin was the most interesting to me and the reason I had to see Sotterley. The tour touched on some of the enslaved history but I wish it did more, the exhibits did also but not in depth. I wish there was a seperate tour to focus solely on the lives of those enslaved on the plantation as they held slaves for over 160 years. The plantation thrived on the backs of their enslaved, if it wasn't for them it would not have prospered. I was thankful to have a place to pay honor to those who suffered through this atrocious period of...

Sotterley Plantation is a historic landmark plantation house located at 44300 Sotterley Lane in Hollywood, St. Mary's County, Maryland, USA. It is a long 1+1⁄2-story, nine-bay frame building, covered with wide, beaded clapboard siding and wood shingle roof, overlooking the Patuxent River. Also on the property are a sawn-log slave quarters of c. 1830, an 18th-century brick warehouse, and an early-19th-century brick meat house. Farm buildings include an early-19th-century corn crib and an array of barns and work buildings from the early 20th century. Opened to the public in 1961, it was once the home of George Plater (1735–1792), the sixth Governor of Maryland, and Herbert L. Satterlee (1863–1947), a New York business lawyer and son-in-law of...