Religious Freedom Byway
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On this day-long tour of the Religious Freedom byway, you'll encounter sites that reflect the vision settlers of the fourth earliest colony brought to North America--religious tolerance and the separation of church and state. Though overwhelmed at the time by religious rivalry and conflict, these concepts became the founding principles of the U.S. Constitution.

You will begin your journey at the colony’s birthplace, St. Mary’s City, and then trace the struggle for religious freedom to two of the earliest parishes at Chaptico and Chapel Point. The story evolves at Port Tobacco with the growth and prosperity of the tobacco markets and leads to the Thomas Stone National Historic Site, home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and predecessor to the colonists who would codify the separation of church and state in our Constitution.

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