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Deal Island - Great Shoals LighthouseLocated near the mouth of the Wicomico River, this was a screwpile light built in 1884. It was abandoned and dismantled in 1966.Apr 03, 2024
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Parsonsburg - Methodist Camp MeetingA typical camp meeting lasted 8-10 days, sometimes longer. In early camp meetings, families would pitch a tent on the grounds and attend preaching, Bible studies, and class meetings throughout the day, and sometimes long into the night. Later, "tents" were permanent wooden structures.
As the nineteenth century wore on, camp meetings gradually fell into disuse. After the Civil War, they enjoyed a resurgence. This photo shows the Parsonsburg Camp Meeting in that time period.Apr 03, 2024
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Bivalve - Corny MessickCornelius Messick, Cabinetmaker and Undertaker, Bivalve, Wicomico County - Photo, circa late 19th centuryApr 03, 2024
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Berlin - Trappe MillTruitt and les Callette called the Trappe Mill site the oldest in the county, successor of Powell’s Mill mentioned in the 1698 will of Walter Powell, then a resident of Somerset County. Powell left to his daughters Elizabeth and Mary Evans “Powell’s Mill Pond,” 250 acres and the tract “Hilliard’s Discovery on the seaboard side.” The authors of WCMA, p. 288, believed that Powells Mill developed into Trappe Mill. The village of Buckingham was in the upper seaside region at a gristmill on Trappe Creek. After the main highway bypassed the location, the settlement declined and was superseded by the village near Burley Inn (i. e. Berlin); the old mill continued as the Trappe Mill.Apr 03, 2024
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Berlin - Trappe MillTrappe Mill stood on the western bank of Trappe Creek SE of Berlin town, south of the intersection of Assateague Road (376) and Harrison Road.Apr 03, 2024
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Tyaskin - Charles Venables Hughes familySep 13, 2023
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Tyaskin - Betsy J. Messick HitchElizabeth Jane Messick, b. 16 Sep 1831, Worcester County, MD
dau. of Ebenezer and Nancy (Johnson) Messick
m. Thomas James Hitch 9 Jan 1856 and lived in Somerset (now Tyaskin, Wicomico) County
Sep 13, 2023
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Wenona - W.D. Webster Store, 1940Walter D. "Dick" Webster, born in 1878, had a store and boarding house in Wenona and ran fishing charters. He died in 1948.Sep 04, 2023
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Deal Island - African-American Farmhouse, 1940... the home of one of Roger Spence's married sonsSep 04, 2023
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Princess Anne - FSA ClientRoger Spence, a client of the Farm Service Agency (FSA), and three of his sons in their home about two miles outside of Princess Anne. Spence's home had burned down and his family were living in a makeshift shack. The FSA was a New Deal program established in 1935 to help poor farming families in a number of ways.Sep 04, 2023
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Princess Anne - Tending the GardenElderly woman tends her garden near Princess Anne, 1940Sep 04, 2023
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Crisfield - Housing for Workers at the W. T. Handy Packing House, 1944Sep 04, 2023
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Wenona - Deal Island Boys, 1940Ernest Prettyman "Skiggs" Hoffman, age 15, and Harvey William Horseman, age 12. Both were sons of Deal Island watermen.Sep 04, 2023
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Wenona - Deal Island Waterman, 1940Edward T. "Eddie" CorbettSep 04, 2023
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Wenona - Deal Island Waterman, 1940Holly AbbottSep 04, 2023
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Westover - Kingston Hall today(2) By the time she finished college, the family and Kingston Hall were in financial distress. She tried to help by opening a girls' school. Due to debts incurred by previous generations of the family, the Carrolls lost Kingston Hall to foreclosure in 1837.
Despite that, Anna Ella Carroll became influential in national politics, even advising President Abraham Lincoln. She was a publicist and a lobbyist, developed the Tennessee River Plan, and was well known for her writing. Because of the era in which she was born, much of her work wasn’t recognized until long after she died in 1894.
John W. Dennis bought Kingston Hall after its foreclosure, and it passed down to John Upshur Dennis, who served as a judge of the Supreme Court of BaltimoreSep 04, 2023
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Westover - Kingston Hall(1) Kingston Hall, on Old Westover Marion Road on the Big Annamessex River at the Head of Kings Creek, was built by Thomas King, son of Col. Robert King, in the 1780s. He left it to his daughter, Elizabeth Barnes King, who married Col. Henry James Carroll and had two sons, Charles Cecilius Carroll and Thomas King Carroll.
The property passed to Thomas King Carroll. In 1829 he was elected governor of Maryland and later appointed as Chief Naval Officer for the Port of Baltimore by President Zachary Taylor. His oldest child, Anna Ella Carroll (b 1815) was educated as if she were the family’s firstborn son. (continued next photo)Sep 04, 2023
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Manokin - Sudler's ConclusionLocated on Hood Road north of Route 361, the original Flemish-bond brick portion of the structure was built around 1725. The property, then called "Barnaby's Lott" was purchased by Thomas Seon in 1747. His grandson, Thomas Seon Sudler had the property and surrounding property resurveyed as Sudler's Conclusion in 1789. The 2-story clapboard portion was added by a later owner about 1840.Sep 04, 2023
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Salisbury - Bank of Salisbury $2 BillSep 03, 2023
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Crisfield - Repairing Oyster BoatsSep 03, 2023
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Princess Anne - Washington Hotel, 1940sThis old colonial inn, built in 1744 during the reign of King George II, carries all who enter its doors back to the days when democracy was in the making. There are two stairways in this old historical hotel, side by side, one which was used by the ladies and the other by the gentlemen. The sides of the colonial mantle are worn away where, nearly 200 years ago, men propped their feet by the fire.Aug 23, 2023
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Crisfield - Corner of Somerset and Asbury Avenue, 1913Aug 23, 2023
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Ewell - SkipjackA skipjack at anchor in the harbor at Ewell, Smith Island. This famous style of sailing vessel plied the waters of the Chesapeake Bay country since the latter part of the 19th century. It was a work boat used in the seafood industry and is also a popular entry in annual sailboat races in the Bay area.Aug 23, 2023
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Princess Anne - Beckford Avenue SouthAug 23, 2023
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Princess Anne Academy, Eastern Branch, Maryland Agricultural CollegeWhat was at the time called the Delaware Conference Academy for Negroes was founded in 1886 by the Delaware Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and it was, at the time, a preparatory school for the private Centenary Biblical Institute in Baltimore, later known as Morgan College. In 1890, it was renamed the Princess Anne Academy and was aligned with the then Maryland Agricultural College. The State of Maryland purchased the Academy in 1935, and in 1936 it became a part of the University of Maryland, bearing the name Maryland State College from 1948 until 1970. In 1970 it was renamed University of Maryland Eastern Shore.Aug 23, 2023
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Berlin - Man with Ox Cart, 1910Aug 17, 2023
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Salisbury - Wicomico RiverAug 17, 2023
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Salisbury - Wicomico RiverAug 17, 2023
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Salisbury - Wicomico High School, 1907Aug 17, 2023
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Salisbury Harbor - Wicomico RiverAug 17, 2023
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Salisbury - Wicomico Courthouse and Post OfficeAug 17, 2023
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Salisbury - Mill and Falls at Johnson's PondThe mill at Johnson's Pond produced this waterfall. The ponds in the area were cut off from the river for mill use creating businesses and revenue for the growing town. There used to be a horse path along the falls that has been removed. Today it is near Isabella Street. Aug 17, 2023
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Salisbury - Pine Bluff Lily Pond and HospitalPine Bluff State Hospital was a tuberculosis sanatorium built near Salisbury in 1912.Aug 17, 2023
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Salisbury - Steamer Virginia on the Wicomico RiverAug 17, 2023
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Salisbury - City Park and WaterworksAug 17, 2023
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Tyaskin - F.B. Culver StoreThe store was built around 1870-80 and was known as Covington & Culver during the late 19th century. In addition to the mercantile business, Covington & Culver also owned a sawmill and canning operation, as well as several bugeyes that worked the Chesapeake Bay. The store was torn down in the 1970s or 1980s.Aug 17, 2023
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Wicomico River Oyster Tongers, 1941Aug 17, 2023
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Salisbury - The John B. Parsons Home for the AgedAug 17, 2023
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Salisbury - Maryland State Teachers CollegeNow known as Salisbury University, the college opened its doors in 1925 as the State Normal School with 105 students. The building shown here was originally the only building, now known as Holloway Hall. The college was renamed the Maryland State Teachers College in 1934.Aug 17, 2023
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Eden - Romani Girl, 1940Farm Security Administration photo of a "gypsy" girl whose family lived on U.S. 13 about 5 miles south of Salisbury.Aug 17, 2023
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Salisbury - Aerial View, Chesapeake AirwaysAug 17, 2023
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Salisbury - Deer's Head HospitalLocated just north of Salisbury, next to Johnson's pond, Deer's Head was the first chronic disease hospital in Maryland. It was dedicated July 20, 1950.Aug 17, 2023
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