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Maryland’s First European Immigrants

the arrival of the first permanent English settlers

St. Mary’s County Museum Director Karen Stone will present the story of Maryland’s first wave of immigrants – the English who came to stay in 1634.

Visit the World on the Move page on our website to learn more about the World on the Move exhibit and additional Library programming.

Learn more about their reasons for leaving England, Lord Baltimore’s earlier experiments, their relationship with their neighboring colonies and with the area’s original inhabitants. The story continues with future migrations of the English as they went west, hoping yet again to build a better future.

About the Presenter: Karen Stone has been the Museum Division Manager for St. Mary’s County since 2017. She did her undergraduate work at Gettysburg College and obtained her master’s degree at Penn State University. She got her first museum job while still in middle school and has been working in the museum field ever since. Stone has published many articles and has been a frequent lecturer on U.S., Maryland, and local history. She recently wrote her first book: Shipwreck on the Potomac: Disaster in Pursuit of Lincoln’s Killer.

World on the Move: 250,00 years of Human Migration was developed by the American Anthropological Association, together with the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and Smithsonian Exhibits. It is administered by the American Library Association’s Public Programs Office.

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