Bill
and Nancy Smith Family
Travels and Holidays
Travels and Holidays
This web site will both chronicle
(very briefly) our recent visit to Maryland and provide some useful background
material (via hyperlinks to additional information) for better understanding
of the ancestoral heritage of the Kinnick line (Bill's mother's father's line)
in colonial times.
Bryantown
is located in Charles County, Maryland. This is south of Prince George's County
and west of St. Mary's County. The southern and western boundaries of Charles
County are the Potomac River:
Bryantown in
circled in the middle of the map.
Poplar Hill is circled
upper right, in Prince George's County.
Benedict is lower right, on the Pautuxent
River, down the road from Bryantown.
Washington, D.C., is off the map to the upper left, of course.
The yellow part in the lower right is upper St. Mary's County.
Note Zekiah
Swamp is the blue line (river) just to the left of Bryantown,
running generally from near the Prince George's border, past Bryantown
just left of it, down the map, becoming more swampy as it gathers runoff water.
To the left
of Zekiah Swamp you can see LaPlata (yellow),
the County Seat.
Historic Port Tobacco is just lower left of LaPlata.
The first sentence
says: "The Indian village of Potobac visited in 1608 by Capt. John Smith
occupied this site." That caught my attention!
College of
Southern Maryland is just to the northwest of LaPlata.
We spent nearly a day in the Southern Maryland
Studies Center
and gathered much useful information.
We stayed in
Waldorf, actually, so it was a short drive east along Highway 5,
to cross Zekiah Swamp and into the Bryantown
area.
"The Swamp" here is now a small stream, requiring only a small highway bridge.
Bryantown is just a mile ahead, around the corner a bit, to the right.
We are approaching "Kinnickland"....
Bill