by Kennedy Thomason | Sep 9, 2024 | 20th Century, Age of Sail, Age of Steam, Colonial Era, Kennedy Thomason Project, Maritime, Mills, Preservation, The River is the Center by Kennedy Thomason, West Denton
From the blowing sails of schooners in the 1700s to the steady hum of steamboats in the 1800s, the Choptank River has been a silent witness to the evolution of vessels that carried not just goods and passengers, but also the dreams and aspirations of those who lived...
by Kennedy Thomason | Jun 26, 2024 | Agriculture, Colonial Era, Historic Landscape, Kennedy Thomason Project, Quakers, Religion, Revolutionary War, The River is the Center by Kennedy Thomason
The Choptank River, winding through the heart of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, has long been a lifeline for the various communities situated along its banks. Among these communities is Caroline County, a small, agricultural region that would prove to be pivotal in...
by Kennedy Thomason | Jun 11, 2024 | Colonial Era, Historic Landscape, Historic Sites Mapping, Kennedy Thomason Project, Revolutionary War, The River is the Center by Kennedy Thomason
Over the past several years, Washington College’s archeology students have spent their summers in Denton, studying the site of the long-forgotten Barwick’s Ordinary, which operated between 1763 to 1783. In late-18th-century terms, an “Ordinary” refers to a...
by Kennedy Thomason | Jun 4, 2024 | Colonial Era, Farms, Kennedy Thomason Project, Revolutionary War, The River is the Center by Kennedy Thomason
The early to mid-1600s saw the reign of tobacco as the dominant cash crop in the American colonies. The King of England strongly opposed the growing of tobacco in the mother country, and the climate was not exactly suitable for its growth anyway, leaving the...
by Don Barker | Dec 26, 2018 | 20th Century, Colonial Era, dbarker, Highways and Byways, Town
It’s a bit of a stretch to call Reliance a town. Officially, it’s an unincorporated community. It’s a place that straddles two states and three counties – Caroline and Dorchester counties in Maryland, and Sussex county in Delaware. But in its heyday,...
by Don Barker | Nov 29, 2018 | Colonial Era, dbarker, Historic Sites Mapping
Lord Baltimore commissioned the Bohemian-Dutch merchant Augustine Hermann to produce a map of his Maryland colony in exchange for a large land grant near the head of Chesapeake Bay. Hermann’s map was published in England in 1670. In his A Biography of...
by Don Barker | Mar 25, 2014 | Colonial Era, dbarker, Revolutionary War
They don’t like him or follow him. So social media ignores him. And history forgets him. How powerful they are! Caroline County has her Revolutionary War hero and Colonel Richardson High School Colonel Richardson Middle School Colonel...
