Harford Legacy Farm Commemorative Book

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Harford County's Agricultural History 1600s - 1700s

Native Americans taught Maryland colonists how to plant corn, beans, and squash and where to find clams and oysters in the Chesapeake. Early 1600s

Mid 1600s Maryland’s first industry was agriculture, and the most important cash crops were tobacco, wheat, and corn.

1690s

African-descended enslaved people replace indentured Mid-1600s servants for agricultural labor.

1773

Harford County was formed from Baltimore County; named for Henry Harford, the last Proprietor of Maryland and illegitimate son of Frederick Calvert, 6th Lord Baltimore.

Sharon Stowers, Ph.D., RDN, Harford Community College