Upper Marlboro History

12/05/2025

Want to make a Colonial Kissing Ball? Here's an event a the Rising Sun Inn in Crownsville! These are fun to make and last for months!

02/07/2025

It's TBT! These pictures are from 1969. Pope's Creek Branch Steam Excursion Photo's Upper Marlboro 8-14-69

This steam excurson with ex CP 1286 ran on August 14, 1969. You see the train crossing Buck Lane and approaching the then relatively new bridge over the Collington Branch creek coming into Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

Photos provided by Brian Callicott (our resource for collecting these photos)

06/23/2024

Picture inside "Content" (site #9) on June 22, 2024. "By Their Hands" Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage in the Town of Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County. Celebrating the African American artisans and craftsman for Juneteenth

11/17/2023

TBT: Travelers' Toll 1929 Federal Government Film Movie about the taxation of the National Road. These pictures are of the Town Courthouse in 1927 as they were making the film. (Credits to Tom Gross/HPC) ~9:10 you can see Trinity Church (briefly)

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Traveller's Toll (Movie):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhmf2y3GCgs

06/15/2023

Join the Town of Upper Marlboro Historical Committee on Saturday to talk about Historic Main Street in Upper Marlboro! Walk Main Street with the Committee and learn about the History of Main Street in the Court Town of Prince Georges County!

01/31/2023

“The Bell Affair” to be Shown at Old Greenbelt Theatre
The Prince George’s County Historical Society is sponsoring the showing of an important new film that you will not want to miss! The award-winning team that produced “Anna” has produced another important Maryland story – its inaugural feature length animated film, “The Bell Affair.” The film will be shown at the Old Greenbelt Theatre, located at 129 Centerway, Greenbelt, Maryland, beginning promptly at 5:30 PM, Thursday, February 23, 2023.

“The Bell Affair” tells the dramatic and inspiring story of Daniel and Mary Bell, who sued for their freedom from slavery and led one of the largest escape attempts in American history on the Pearl in April 1848. This debut feature comes from first-time filmmaker and acclaimed director Kwakiutl Dreber, accomplished digital artist and animator Michael Burton, and prize-winning historian and writer William G. Thomas III. The story is based on Thomas’ recent book A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War.
Admission will be FREE and a discussion of the film will follow the screening led by William Thomas.

“The Bell Affair” won Best Animation at the 2022 Prince George’s County Film Festival and was Honorable Mention at the 2022 Silk Road Film Awards Cannes. The film was produced with funding from prominent humanitarian organizations, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, Maryland Humanities, and the Kitty M. Perkins Foundation.

01/12/2023

TUMHC Announces New Book: Pre-Order Your Copy Today Just In Time For Black History Month | Former Town of Upper Marlboro Resident, Pia Marie Winters Jordan https://www.uppermarlboromd.gov/news_detail_T10_R388.php

10/13/2022

Here's some write-ups from the Enquirer Gazette and PG Post: Enquirer Gazette: https://www.somdnews.com/enquirer_gazette/news/local/town-of-upper-marlboro-re-creates-historic-1922-crain-highway-monument-photo/article_0e409068-23eb-5829-b0e8-c3ea764a9220.html

PG Post:

10/07/2022

It's Here!!!! The Crain Hwy Monument Picture REMAKE!!!!!

Welcome to Upper Marlboro, Maryland

10/05/2022

If you all want to see some pictures from Saturday's event, they have been posted on the Town of Upper Marlboro's main page here:

The official website for the Town of Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The seat of Prince George's County Government since 1721.