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Arts Council Gallery (Washington County)
A distinctive assemblage of art and fine crafts showcase the work of regional artists with monthly featured exhibits.
American Visionary Art Museum
This museum devotes its impressive gallery space in Baltimore's historic Federal Hill neighborhood to works by self-taught artists. You'll be amazed by the mastery, creativity and power of the works here.
Village Store (Bucktown)
The store is the site of the first known act of defiance in the life of Harriet Tubman, who helped some 70 slaves escape to freedom in the north. The store offers guided historic and nature tours. You can also rent bikes, canoes and kayaks.
C&O Canal: Cushwa Basin Visitors Center
The historic canal stretches 184.5 miles from Washington D.C. to Cumberland. At the Cushwa Basin Visitors Center in Williamsport you can see major canal structures including a lock house, turning basin, aqueduct and a Bollman Truss Bridge.
Accohannock Indian Tribal Museum and Gift Shop
See artifacts and history exhibits of local Native American communities. Hand-made crafts made on-site are available for purchase.
Potomac Speedway
Get your thrills at the 3/8-mile high-bank clay oval in Mechanicsville. See exciting stock car racing every week. The track also features super-late models, limited late models, street stocks, 4-cylinder, enduro/hobby and bomber classes of racing.
Colored School (Ellicott City)
This restored one room schoolhouse from 1880 serves as living history museum and African American genealogical resource center.
Thomas Issac Log Cabin
A period-appointed cabin and costumed docents reveal various aspects of Ellicott's Mills, an 18th-century Quaker mill town, and the birth of the National Road, one of the country's first highways, which linked Cumberland, Md., with Wheeling, WV.
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