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General Store - Post Office
Mackall Road
The Little General Store and Post Office at Mackalls Wharf. At the very end of Mackall Road in St. Leonard sits a tiny building that doesn't look particularly remarkable. But for generations, this little building connected a rural Calvert County community with the outside world. This was the Mackall Post Office and General Store. READ MORE
The Patriarch of Solomons
Captain James W. Northam
In 1926, as Solomons prepared for one of its great Chesapeake workboat races, an 83-year-old man was selected for a special honor. Captain James W. Northam would pull the lanyard and fire the gun to start the race. The Baltimore newspapers called him “The Patriarch of Solomons.” It was a fitting title for a man who had spent most of his life on the water and nearly half a century helping shape the little island community he called home. READ MORE
The Log Cabin Ghost
A Story That Has Been Told
When I was growing up, I always thought the log cabin along route 4 that today houses the delicious Adam's Taphouse and Grille Prince Frederick dated back to Maryland’s early statehood. To my young eyes, it felt like something straight out of the 1800s — a frontier-era log cabin that had somehow survived into the modern world. As it turns out, it isn’t that old… but its story is no less fascinating. READ ON
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