by Anne Raines, Capital Grants and Loans Program Administrator
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| Laboring Sons Memorial Ground |
Just up the hill from the main street of Sharpsburg is a
modest one-room board and batten structure, neatly painted white and crowned by
a small bell tower, standing watch over a small and well-tended cemetery.
About 20 miles away, in the center of the city of Frederick,
a quiet acre serves as the final resting place of over 1,500 individuals,
commemorated by a prominent granite marker.
The sites, as different as they may seem, serve as significant
monuments to the African American experience in western Maryland.
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