Shoal Creek Manor, a three-story, 16-room brick house, was on a 378-acre plantation in East Cambridge that was originally part of the Choptank tribal lands. The land was purchased from the tribe by the Ennalls family, and the dwelling was built around 1750. Before it was razed in 1970 to make way for a wastewater treatment plant, manacles and chains were found in the cellar, where captured Black people were taken in the “dead hours of the night” and keep until they were sold into slavery.
So sad that such a magnificent building was used for such awful purposes