When traveling on US MD between Easton and Cambridge, just a few miles north of the traffic light in Trappe stand the remains of the Old White Marsh Episcopal Church and its adjoining graveyard.

The Church was built before 1690, destroyed by a fire in 1892 and partly restored in 1977.

I have stopped here a few times during my travels and always find it to be a quiet place where you can reflect about life. This week I stopped again on my way to a work assignment in Cambridge.

Buried there is Robert Morris, Sr, father of Robert Morris, Jr. Robert Morris, Jr as part of Pennsylvania legislature to the Second Continental Congress was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. From 1781 to 1784, he served as the Superintendent of Finance of the United States, becoming known as the “Financier of the Revolution”.

Robert Morris, Sr would move to Oxford, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1738, where he would acquire a fortune. Robert Morris, Jr would arrive in 1847. Two years later the Senior Morris would send his son to Philadelphia.

In 1750 Robert Morris, Jr inherited the fortune of Robert Morris, Sr.

I am sure that many who pass it everyday has no idea what stand there. And a few probably don’t care and think that it’s an eyesore that should be removed. But others, like me, think of it as a monument of our history.

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About the Sunday Posts
Nearly three years ago I began doing a series of posts I called “Drives with Steve” on my photography Website, SGAtkinson.com. The idea was to take a drive from my home in Chestertown to an randomly selected location and take photographs along the way.

This eventually turned into the “Points of Interest” series. Along the way I’ve captured a pretty wide range of photos.

For the past several months I have been doing posts on each Sunday that I have been terming,”Drives with Steve” and have tried to have recent one every week. Over these past few there has been a few things that have made these weekly trips difficult to do. One of the biggest has been, in a word, inflation. Especially the price of gas. The cost for these trips have nearly doubled.

I have decided to only do one “Drives with Steve” post a month, on the last Sunday of the Month. What will be appearing on the other Sundays? “Points of Interest”, which is what all of these weekly posts really are.

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