Events
Upcoming Events (View past recorded lectures after upcoming events)
“Artifice Versus Artifacts: Mourning in Civil War America” At 1:00 pm, Juanita Leisch Jensen will discuss rules versus…
House and Grounds open for tours. Admission is free.
We welcome Owen Lourie back to Todd’s! Owen is an historian at the Maryland State Archives, specializing in…
We are proud to host another art event at Todd’s, with a house photography installation by Chip Irvine.…
House and Grounds open for tours. Admission is free.
House and grounds open for tours. Come enjoy the Christmas decorations, cookies and warm cider.
Join us as we welcome our wonderful Historic Santa. He is a “fan favorite” and spends the day…
Past Events
The Unrecognizable Landscape of Colonial America – James Looper, National Park Service, August 2026
On a beautiful sunny day in August, Ranger James Looper, National Park Service at Fort McHenry National Monument ...
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Bayshore Park: Fr. Kevin Mueller – July 2026
On July 11, Local author and street car aficionado Fr. Kevin Mueller shared the history of Bayshore Park ...
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Fashion of the Revolutionary War – May 2026
Joyce McDonald and Wendy and Brian Alexander present and model custom reproduction clothing of the Revolutionary War period.
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Bob Crickenberger – Point Lookout, Maryland: The Largest Civil War Prison – April 2026
Bob Crickenberger presents his new book Point Lookout, Maryland: The Largest Civil War Prison. Bob has spent many ...
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Victorian Santa visits Todd’s Inheritance
Historic Santa visited with a house full of children again this year. Dressed in the fashion of the ...
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Owen Lourie – Finding the Maryland 400 – November 2025
Discover the lives and legacy of the Maryland Line, which bore heavy casualties at the Battle of Camden ...
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Connecting to the Afterlife – Historic and Contemporary Mourning Jewelry – Luci Jockel – October 2025
Todd's Inheritance proudly hosted the historic and contemporary mourning jewelry exhibition and lecture, Luci Jockel: Enshrined. Luci Jockel ...
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Defender’s Day – September 2025
At Todd's Inheritance Historic Site, the site of the British advance on Baltimore in 1814 and subsequent withdrawal, ...
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Illuminating Bear Creek’s Role in the Defense of Baltimore – Glenn Johnston – August 2025
For nearly two hundred years, the lion's share of research regarding the Battle of North Point was focused ...
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Flag Day – June 14, 2025
On Saturday, June 14, Todd's Inheritance presented a Flag Day program. Visitors were treated to living history demonstrations, ...
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Robb Bailey – Integration of Maryland State Parks – April 2025
Speaker Robert F. Bailey (Robb), Maryland Park Service Historian, focuses on the history of segregation in Maryland State ...
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Visit from Civil War Santa – December 2024
Visit with Santa in Civil War era attire as he talks about how Santa was represented in media ...
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Historic Watercraft of the Chesapeake – Pete Lesher – November 2024
Pete Lesher, Chief Historian for the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, discusses Wooden Shipbuilding on the Chesapeake - Apprenticeships, ...
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Defender’s Day 2024 – Tracing the Trail
On the weekend of September 14 and 15, Todd's Inheritance Historic Site Museum and Interpretive Site participated in ...
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Tracing the Trail – September 13-15
Follow Living History regiments from the Battle of North Point to the defense of Fort McHenry as they ...
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Pete Morrill – Aug 2024 – Intro to Todd House construction tour
Pete Morrill, architectural historian with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, led visitors from cellar to attic of ...
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Oaklawn Cemetery – July 2024
Kevin Garrity of the Dundalk Patapsco Neck Historical Society presents about Oaklawn Cemetery and some of the heroes, ...
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Flag Day – June 2024
Listen as retired NPS ranger Scott Sheads discusses the history of Flag Day and walks our visitors through ...
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Ship’s Company Chanteymen – May 2024
The Ship's Company Chanteymen entertained us with two sets of 1812-era rousing sea chanteys.
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Painting Invitational – April 2024
Artists set up through the house and on the grounds to create still life paintings. Artist and professor ...
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Historic Santa – December 2, 2023
Listen to SANTA as he lectures on the many representations of himself from his beginnings 1,751 years ago ...
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The Women of Todd’s – November 2023
Ruth Todd Boggs, a 12th generation member of the Todd family, speaks about "The Women of Todd's Inheritance: ...
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Matt Klos “A Community Portrait” – October 2023
On October 14, we opened our inaugural art exhibition - "A Community Portrait", with paintings by local artist ...
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Construction History – October 2023
Watch as Peter Morrill, Cultural Resources and Curatorship Program manager for Maryland Department of Natural Resources, shares with ...
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Mobtown Massacre – September 2023
Thank you to Sandra Heiler for her lecture on the Baltimore Newspaper Wars and the shocking events that ...
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The Bootlegger of North Point – August 2023
Our speaker Kevin Garrity, VP of the Dundalk Patapsco Neck Historical Society, lectured on the Bootlegger of North ...
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Recreational venues on Bear Creek – July 2023
Speaker Glenn Johnston, professor of History at Stevenson University, presented a fascinating lecture about recreational venues on Bear ...
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Enslaved Marylanders in the War of 1812 – June 2023
Mr. Michael Kent, author of Mulatto: The Black History of Calvert County, discussed the choices enslaved Marylander's had ...
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Flag Day Ceremony – June 2023
Scott Sheads, historian and retired Fort McHenry ranger, lead us in a flag ceremony and the unfurling of ...
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The Poe’s of Baltimore – May 2023
Enrica Jang Director of Edgar Allan Poe House, on the Poe family’s contribution to the Revolution and War ...
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Unveiling of Dragoon Uniform – April 2023
All of us at Todd's want to give a big thank you to Steve Abolt, master tailor, for ...
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