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Chestertown Tea Party Festival

Chestertown, MD · Festival

When

May 28–30, 2027

Where

Historic district of Chestertown and Wilmer Park along the Chester River · Chestertown · MD

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A free Memorial Day weekend festival centered on a reenactment of the 1774 tossing of tea from the brigantine Geddes into the Chester River. It also features a colonial parade, block party, craft vendors, walking tours, a 10 mile and 5k run, and a Sunday beer fest and raft race at Wilmer Park. A nonprofit committee runs it.

The history within reach

• Ballestone Mansion is a plantation house kept in an Essex county park19 mi

  The Ballestone-Stansbury House sits on Cedar Point between the Back and Middle Rivers, built around 1800 as the house of a working plantation and enlarged twice over the next eighty years.

• British troops burned Todd's Inheritance on their way out of Baltimore20 mi

  The Todd family had farmed the tip of the peninsula since the 1600s, and in the war their house served the Americans as a lookout, signal station and courier post watching for the British fleet.

• Essex Skypark still flies off grass, with water runways next door20 mi

  William Diffendahl carved an airstrip out of farmland on the Back River Neck peninsula and it was flying under his own name by 1943, when the Glenn L.

• Fort Howard was called the bulldog at Baltimore's gate20 mi

  After the Spanish American War the Army decided Baltimore needed real coastal guns, and it put them on the same tip of land the British had used to come ashore in 1814.

• Edgemere becomes the bayside town for the Sparrows Point mill21 mi

  The settlement took the name Edgemere in 1899, replacing Fitzell, at a meeting held on the Fitzell farm.