In 2019 the City of Harrington celebrated the150th Anniversary of their Incorporation. Nearly 100 years earlier, 1780, Benjamin Clark built a home and tavern. The tavern became a stagecoach stop as well a place for the area’s farmers to hear Read More …
Almost from the time that explorers first surveyed the area a canal to cross the Delmarva Peninsula between the Delaware River and the Chesapeake Bay was a topic of consideration. Augustine Herman was the first to proposed to a canal Read More …
Today when one thinks of Eastern Neck Island in Kent County, MD it’s as a National Wildlife Refuge. In the 1650’s when Maryland Colony was only a couple of decades old, Major Joseph Wickes obtained land grants on Eastern Neck Read More …
The Chesapeake Bay town of Rock Hall, located in Kent County, MD is well known as a bay community with long ties to commercial fishing and more recently as a haven for boaters. But in a way it has also Read More …
The village of Still Pond in Kent County, MD today appears to be just an old crossroad village. In the early years of the 20th Century is was an incorporated town. In the municipal election of 1908 three women, Mary Read More …
A few weeks ago I posted about President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1938 visit to the Maryland Eastern Shore and the memorial of his visit and speech in Denton. This isn’t the only memorial to President Roosevelt on the the Delmarva Read More …
The Old White Marsh Episcopal Church is located between Easton and Trappe and can be seen from US-50. The Church was built before 1690, destroyed by a fire in 1892 and partly restored in 1977. Buried there is Robert Morris, Read More …
I’ve attended networking events in Annapolis where I am known as the Arts and Entertainment man from the shore. Of course lately these have been held virtually. I’ve been asked where to go on the shore. Usually they are looking Read More …
On Labor Day, September 5, 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Maryland’s Eastern Shore delivering a nationally broadcast speech from Denton, Caroline County. Newspaper accounts were that there were 5000 to 10,000 people in attendance to watch Roosevelt deliver Read More …
Between the burning of Washington and the attack on Fort McHenry was the Battle of Caulk’s Field on the Delmarva Peninsula in Kent County, MD. Taking place on the night of August 30 and early morning hours of August 31, Read More …