by Don Barker | Feb 10, 2020 | Black History & Culture, Black Schools, Black Schools Still Standing, dbarker, Schools
Through 90 years of racial segregation and funding disparity, black schools in Caroline County were sacred ground in the fight for literacy, democracy, and civil rights. Eight are still there. Stand in the Place. There were no public schools for enslaved or free...
by Don Barker | Dec 18, 2019 | Black History & Culture, dbarker, Quakers
Daniel Hubbard, a free black, and his neighbor Arthur Leverton, a white Quaker, worked side by side to move freedom seekers through Caroline County to safety. [Jacob and Hannah Leverton House. Photo late 19th c.] [ A Caroline Digital History Project collaboration with...
by Don Barker | Nov 17, 2019 | dbarker, Farms, Town
The Times-Record reported last week that the old Southern States building in Denton was demolished in a controlled burn carried out by the Denton VFD. The vacant and dilapidated building was burned because the town determined that it was a safety hazard. The VFD also...
by Don Barker | Aug 7, 2019 | Age of Sail, dbarker, Maritime
Stand in the Place: The Age of Sail returns to Denton and the upper Choptank River Sailing the Choptank was never easy. Even so, schooners, bugeyes, pungies, and skipjacks tied up at Denton from the 1700s till the 1930s. Now you too can sail with us from Denton down...
by Don Barker | Apr 29, 2019 | dbarker, Historic Sites Mapping
Jumptown? Casho’s Mills? Furman’s Grove? Jadwins Creek? These were the names of real places in Caroline County 50 or 250 years ago. The places are still there, but many of the place names are lost to memory. Now you can find them again and Stand in the...
by Don Barker | Feb 18, 2019 | Black History & Culture, dbarker
In observance of Black History Month, we’re publishing Tuckahoe, a cycle of poems which beckon us to learn more about Frederick Douglass’s life and times – and to Stand in the Place. Robert Madison wrote: “By chance, in 1996 I moved to...
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 | Sep 23, 2018 | 20th Century, Age of Sail, dbarker
The skipjack Flora A. Price was built at Chase, Maryland, in 1910. She was one of the largest skipjacks ever built. Flora dredged Chesapeake oysters for 70 years. [See hundreds of photos and historic documents here.] Flora sailed as a yacht in the 1980s. [See...
by Don Barker | Aug 10, 2018 | Black History & Culture, Cemeteries, Churches, dbarker
Check out our new Story Map: click and goStand in the Place
by Don Barker | Jun 28, 2018 | Cemeteries, dbarker, Revolutionary War
Caroline County sent six regimental, militia, and staff colonels to war against British imperial troops during 1776-1783: Col. Peter Adams Col. Matthew Driver Col. Philip Feddiman Col. Benson Stainton Col. William Richardson Col. William Whiteley Altogether, they...
by Don Barker | Mar 1, 2018 | Black History & Culture, Cemeteries, Churches, dbarker
See the new St. Paul AME Story Map, Where the Dead Rise Up I was scanning aerial photography of Caroline County and saw this striking image in the landscape – above-ground crypts in a church graveyard: The 1897 map shows this was the site of St Paul African...
