Saint Clement’s Island

Saint Clement’s Island was the site of the first landing of Governor Leonard Calvert and the Maryland colonists on March 25, 1634. On that same day, Father Andrew White, S. J. celebrated the first Catholic mass in the British-American colonies there. The island later became part of St. Clements Manor, granted to Dr. Thomas Gerard on November 3, 1639, and was afterward owned by the Blackistone family for more than 200 years, during which it was known as Blackistone Island.

Maryland · United States