Inscription:
“Maryland’s First Women Voters

In the village of Still Pond, twelve years before the 19th amendment established women’s suffrage, Mary Jane Clark Howard, Anna Baker Maxwell, and Lille Deringer Kelly cast their ballots in the municipal election of 1908. That year, an act for incorporation of the town had provided the right to vote to any male or female resident taxpayer over age 21. Fourteen women were registered to vote, two of them African Americans.”

Marker is in Still Pond, Maryland, in Kent County at the intersection of Still Pond Road (Maryland Route 292) and Old Still Pond Road.

The village of Still Pond in Kent County, MD today appears to be just an old crossroad village. In the early years of the 20th Century is was an incorporated town.

It wasn’t until August 18, 1920 that the 19th amendment guaranteed all American women the right to vote.

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Along the roads in Maryland there are roadside historical markers. Hundreds on Maryland Eastern Shore. The program was launched in 1933 and is currently administered by the Maryland Historical Trust (MHT) in cooperation with the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA).These roadside historical markers are an effective way to draw attention to the many events, people and places that have contributed to the history of Maryland and the nation.

Often we will pass these signs at a speed that makes them hard to read. I will be posting one of these Highway Historical Markers each Tuesday Morning. Please come by to read read them and learn a little about the remarkable people, places and events throughout the region.