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The Patriotic Order Sons of America is an American patriotic fraternal organization that traces its origins to the anti-alien riots of the 1840s. Founded in 1847 in Philadelphia, [1] the P.O.S. of A. once had "camps" (chapters) in well over 20 states. At its peak, there were more than 800 Camps in Pennsylvania alone.
George Lippard (ca. 1850). Following the organization of the patriotic American secret societies, the Order of United American Mechanics, and the Patriotic Order of United Sons of America, at Philadelphia in 1845 and 1847, respectively, came the Brotherhood of America, at the same city, in 1850 with similar purposes and characteristics.
The State of Maryland began as the Province of Maryland, an English settlement in North America founded in 1632 as a proprietary colony. George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1580–1632), wished to create a haven for his fellow English Catholics in the New World.
Grand Order of Nazarites – Founded in 1863 in Baltimore for charitable and fraternal purposes. One of the earlier societies was to pay sick and funeral benefits. Mentioned in the census of 1890, but defunct by the late 1890s. [134] Grand United Order Independent Sons and Daughters of Purity – Founded sometime prior to 1890 in Harrisburg ...
The Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), formally the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NSSAR), is a federally chartered patriotic organization. The National Society, a nonprofit corporation headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky , [ 8 ] was formed in New York City on April 30, 1889. [ 9 ]
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Fort Howard is located in the present-day unincorporated community and census designated place of Fort Howard, Maryland, and is strategically situated overlooking the geographic entrance to the Patapsco River from the Chesapeake Bay at the terminal end of the North Point peninsula, which is surrounded by Back River to the east, Old Roads Bay to the west, and the Patapsco River to the south ...
The poem was later set to "Lauriger Horatius" (the tune of O Tannenbaum), a melody popular in the South, and referred to the riots with lines such as "Avenge the patriotic gore / That flecked the streets of Baltimore". It did not become Maryland's state song until 78 years later (1939). [47]