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| Name | Street Address | City | State | Historical Notes | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chillum-Adelphi Volunteer Fire Department Memorial | Sligo Creek Pkwy. & New Hampshire Ave. | Takoma Park | MD | On Aug. 9, 1969, a flood stranded a family of three, leaving them hanging from the bridge over the creek. The worker's memorial honors the volunteer firefighters who drowned in the otherwise successful rescue, Robert Harmon, Jr. and Robert C. Hobstetter. | |
| Jones, Mary Harris "Mother," Historical Marker | Powder Mill & Riggs Rds. | Adelphi, Prince Georges County | MD | Marks the place of Mother Jones' death at the Burgess Farm on Nov. 30, 1930. Jones spent the last two years of her life being cared for by Lillie May Burgess. Mother Jones celebrated her 100th birthday at the farm on May 1, 1930. | The farm was later converted into the Mother Jones Rest Home and then became the property of the Hillandale Baptist Church. see: Jones, Mary Harris "Mother," and Miners' Monument see: Jones, Mary Harris "Mother," Prison Site |
| Museum in the Park | Old Row | Mt. Savage | MD | The boyhood home of Cardinal Edward Mooney is one of the many "company houses" built by the mining company. | |
| Prospect V-III Mining Memorial | Frostburg State College | Frostburg | MD | Coal was first discovered in the U.S. in nearby Georges Creek Basin during an 1872 survey conducted by George Washington. Since the birth of the U.S. coal industry, miners have experienced risk and hardship, unionization battles, and work-related disease. | Prospect V-III, which is "overtly critical of past and present mining operations" is situated on a former mine site, overlooking the Georges Creek Basin. Leicester created it for coal miners in northwestern Maryland. see: TOTH Mining Memorial |
| "Sun" Boys' Memorial | Loudon Park Cemetery; 3801 Frederick Ave. | Baltimore | MD | On July 4, 1924, five newspaper boys from the "Baltimore Sun" died when the steamer they were on, the Three Rivers, caught fire. Because they were band members, the memorial reads, "They have all moved a little closer to the Master of all music." | At Loudon Park Cemetery go to the Primrose Family Circle, turn right to the Bethel section to see the "Sun" Boys' Memorial. |
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