FAMILY MEMORIES

A collection of memories, moments, and milestones that tell our family's story

- past and present 

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HISTORY OF OUR FAMILY

CONNECTING TO THE LINE - 1840 AQUASCO, MARYLAND THE NAME IS DERIVED FROM THE NATIVE AMERICAN NAME AQUASCAKE, THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPED AS AN AGRICULTURAL CENTER FOR THE PRODUCTION OF TOBACCO. THE MAIN ROADS CONNECTING THE WIDELY SCATTERED TOBACCO PLANTATIONS WERE ESTABLISHED IN THE 18TH

CENTURY AND, IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY. IT WAS NAMED AFTER THE WOOD FAMILY, EARLY SETTLERS OF AQUASCO. THE NUMBER OF PLANTATIONS, AND THE SLAVE POPULATION WAS RELATIVELY HIGH IN THIS SECTION OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTRY.

THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU ESTABLISHED A SCHOOL AT WOODVILLE IN 1867, THE SCHOOL LATER BECAME HOME TO JOHN WESLEY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

AFRICAN AMERICANS ALSO WORSHIPED AT ST. MARY'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, ESTABLISHED IN 1848. EAGLE HARBOR - A COMMUNITY FOR MIDDLE CLASS

AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM THE AREA.