Community
Friendship
Friendship is a southern Anne Arundel crossroads with Quaker, agricultural and African American history. County heritage resources explain its churches and schools without treating working properties as public museums.
A crossroads with several histories
Friendship’s story extends beyond a village name on the road map. The county’s African American heritage guide describes a crossroads serving surrounding farms and plantations, with shops, churches and places for community gatherings. It connects the name to the Quakers, while also acknowledging that some local families continued to enslave people. Reading those histories together gives a fuller account of the place.
Understand the school sites
The guide records that a new brick school replaced Friendship’s earlier Rosenwald school in 1958. It closed in 1966 following consolidation and desegregation; the guide identifies the later brick building as a county highways facility. The county’s Voices, Memories and Places story map adds context to that education history.
Explore before you travel
The story map brings historic maps, photographs and site accounts together, making it a practical first stop for planning a local-history outing. Use it to distinguish surviving buildings from places that have disappeared. Churches, workplaces and private historic properties retain their present uses; arrange any interior visit with the relevant owner or organization.