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HISTORY OF INDIAN HEAD PART – IV

Captain Eric C. Correll, USN 2020 - present NSWC Indian Head Commanding Officers Ensign Robert B. Dashiell 1890 – 1893

INDIAN HEAD – Mattawoman Creek

Mattawoman Creek On Capt. John Smith’s map (circa-1608), the Mattawoman appeared as Mataughquamend, which is a word from the Algonquian language

INDIAN HEAD – Native American

Native American The Town of Indian Head was once the territory of and home to the Algonquin Indians. It derived

Sergeant Charles Henry Brown

Sergeant Charles Henry Brown Sergeant Charles Henry Brown served during the Civil War and patrolled the banks of the Potomac

ST. CHARLES ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

St. Charles Roman Catholic Church The St. Charles Roman Catholic Church was built at Glymont, Maryland, in 1800. Demolished in

Welcome to In Search of Glymont

In the past, we referred to America as the New World; we thought of ourselves as a new nation, with its innovations in government and law, its novel problems, and its absence of tradition.

Nevertheless, we know that it is not wholly new. Almost everything we had during the 1920s was a modification or adaptation of something brought across the seas. The only American contributions to the world are the sweet potato, the turkey, tobacco, Indian corn, and the American Indian.

America could not adopt European customs without change. The early settlers who tried to grow wheat in Virginia by English methods starved to death...

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