Upper Marlboro, MD - Sir Nigel Is Feeling Randy

Welcome to Upper Marlboro, Maryland!  The town was established in 1706 and was named Marlborough Town after an ancestor of Winston Churchill, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.  The town went through a few iterations until it ultimately landed on Upper Marlboro by 1893.  The town was originally established as a port town on the western branch of the Patuxent River for tobacco shipments.  Unfortunately, the clearing of land to cultivate tobacco caused erosion which ultimately led to sediment blocking the river and making in unnavigable.  Without a way to move the tobacco to markets, the tobacco trade declined sharply.  The town is also the birthplace of John Carroll, the Catholic Archbishop in America and the founder of Georgetown University.  William Beanes, a doctor who was indirectly responsible for the situation that led to the writing of the national anthem, was born in the town.  We hope you enjoy our visit to this delightful little town!Small Town News--whose headline is it, anyway? @SmallTownNewsImprov