DVHSS 2025 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND REUNION ANNOUNCEMENT
The Baltimore Area 2025 DVHSS reunion committee has finalized the 2025 Reunion itinerary.
Dates: June 12 through June 14, 2025, Wednesday, June 11 Bonus Day at Newark Union in Delaware
Lodging: Hilton Garden Inn
5015 Campbell Blvd., White Marsh, MD 45342
Hotel Phone: 410.931.7304 [ Specify Event – DVHSS Family Reunion 2025]
1 King Bed and a Sofa Cot [$125.00/ day] (Hotel was out of double bed rooms due to lacrosse tournaments in the area)
You must call the hotel at the number above to book your room
The hotel location in White Marsh is about 30 minutes from Baltimore
Reunion Details
The DVHSS 2025 Reunion takes place between June 12th through June 14th with an optional fun day on Wednesday (6/11/25). On Wednesday we will carpool to Newark Union Cemetery in the morning and have lunch at the Bayard House in Chesapeake City.
Church of the Resurrection JoppaThursday starts with the DVHSS Annual Meeting in the hotel ballroom and is followed by box lunches at the hotel. In the afternoon our group carpools to Harford Glen, where our relative Bill Thompson (Valentine Sr. son’s Thomas descendant) will guide us through the Hollingsworth room there. Our next stop is in Joppa at the Church of the Resurrection with a brief talk on Catherine Hollingsworth (Valentine Sr. son John’s widow) and Joppa’s history. Dinner is in the hotel banquet room with Jim Carson presenting a Power Point on his ancestor Samuel Hollingsworth and his son Jacob. This is extremely relevant in that we will visit Samuel’s grave the next day.
Friday is our Hollingsworth Baltimore Day. We will carpool to Old St. Paul’s Cemetery, where noted Baltimore merchants Thomas, Samuel, and Jesse Hollingsworth, sons of
Levi Hollingsworth Vault Zebulon Sr. of Elkton (Henry descendent), are buried. The bus will then drive by the defunct William Hollingsworth Machine Company sign before arriving at the Green Mount Cemetery, where Levi Hollingsworth and his wife were set to rest. Levi, son of Zebulon Sr,, started America’s second oldest copper rolling and fabrication facility at Gunpowder Falls. Lunch is slated at the Mount Vernon Square Marketplace, followed by a walk around the historic park, site of the first Washington Monument. Afterwards, we visit the Maryland Center of History and Culture. For dinner we will carpool to the Steelefish Grille in Bel Air.
Fort McHenrySaturday is our Baltimore Tour Day. We will bus to Baltimore where we will pick up a step-on-guide to give us a tour of historic Baltimore from the bus, Afterwards, we will have lunch at the Broadway Marketplace in the historic Fell’s Point area of Baltimore. Our guide will then give us a guided walking tour through the Fell’s Point area (including the Hollingsworth-Steele House). The final attraction is a visit to Fort McHenry. For our dinner, we will carpool to Barrett’s on the Pike in Bel Air.
DVHSS reunions allow us to get together each year and meet new members. We hope most of you can attend.
Reunion Committee - John P. Hollingsworth & W. Jo Hollingsworth
Registration Form Updated 4/21/2025 - Please use the link to the updated form below to register