The General’s Highway

Across the road stood the three mile oak under which General George Washington passed on his way to Annapolis on December 19, 1783, to resign his commission as Commander in Chief of the Continental Armies. According to tradition, General Smallwood, General Gates, and distinguished Annapolis citizens met Washington at this spot, three miles from the State House. General Lafayette, returning to America to visit friends from Revolutionary days, passed here on December 17, 1824. In 1967, a stone bearing commemorative plaques was relocated beside Route 450 about two tenths of a mile toward Annapolis from this point.

Parole, Maryland · United States