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Upcoming 2026 Season – Check back for updates!!

December 23, 2025 - April 1, 2026

Todd’s Inheritance Historic Site will reopen in April for our 2026 season.  Our volunteers are putting together another…

Past Events

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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