Maryland's first colonists risked a harrowing sea voyage from England to an uncertain future in America, then faced life in the New World, including encounters with Native Americans and the first attempt at true religious tolerance in America. St. Clement's Island was the place where the Maryland Colony's first settlers arrived in 1634. The island's lighthouse and post-colonial Maryland's heritage of hunting, crabbing, fishing, and oystering also form part of this history, along with the Southern Maryland seafood industry. Related historic features include the Charlotte Hall one-room schoolhouse, an original 19th-century school built circa 1820, and a historic Potomac River dory boat.