EASTON, MARYLAND — A historical marker unveiled in 2022 in the gardens at the Talbot Historical Society, 25 South Washington Street, honors Mary Bartlett Dixon and Mary Jenkins, whom the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center calls Talbot County’s two most prominent suffragists. The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center and the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites date the unveiling to May 14, 2022, with the William G. Pomeroy Foundation as donor.
Those pages say Dixon and Jenkins led Talbot’s Just Franchise League from 1909 to 1919. Dixon is described as a grassroots organizer of porch and parlor meetings, pamphleteering, marches, and petition drives. Jenkins is described as Maryland’s representative at state suffrage conventions and a steady Talbot County leader for the cause. Those are marker-program lines, not a Patriot genealogy.
The Talbot Historical Society’s Historic Easton walking tours, which meet at the same 25 South Washington Street address, run again Oct. 17, 2026, at 11 a.m. and noon — free, 10 seats per tour, reservations at 410-822-0773.
Source: mdwomensheritagecenter.org
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