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HillsboroThe famous 1845 autobiography entitled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave begins "I was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough..." Douglass then describes several seminal events in his life that occurred in Hillsboro, including the permanent division of his family among slave holders on October 18, 1827.The Yoash, Corrie, Downes and other gambrel-roof dwellings on west Main Street all date from the Douglass period. East Main was destroyed by a massive fire in 1896, an event so shocking that it led to the creation of the first county fire companies. Two centuries before 1896, English colonists had converted the former St. Jones Indian path into a thoroughfare for commerce between the Tuckahoe River and Dover, Delaware. Hillsborough evolved as a tobacco trading site where the former Indian path (now Maryland Route 480) met the Tuckahoe River. The placement of the local railroad station at Queen Anne limited growth in Hillsborough after 1900. Copyright © 2002 J.O.K. Walsh, All rights reserved.
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