LA PLATA — Friendship Farm Park in Charles County has been officially added to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, recognizing its direct connection to the story of resistance to enslavement in Southern Maryland. The 382-acre park overlooking Nanjemoy Park preserves the original site of Friendship House, built in the mid-1700s and made famous by the daring 1840 escape of Scipio Grantt, an enslaved man who fled from enslaver Rob…
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