by David Baker | Apr 21, 2026 | Past Event, Women
The Caroline County Historical Society is hosting a presentation by Kennedy Thomason at the Museum of Rural Life on Thursday, May 7th, 2026 at 6 PM. Please join us as Kennedy takes us on a journey discussing the impacts of mothers throughout the history of the United...
by Kennedy Thomason | Jul 26, 2024 | A.M.E. Church, Black History & Culture, Champions of Freedom & Civil Rights, Civil Rights & Racial Justice, Kennedy Thomason Project, Quakers, The River is the Center by Kennedy Thomason, William Still, Women
Introduction The Choptank’s waters, once pathways for the arrival and auction of enslaved African people, later became lifelines guiding daring escapes to freedom. Throughout America’s earliest years, Caroline County and the Choptank River bore witness to...
by Don Barker | Oct 14, 2023 | dbarker, Women, WWII
Louise Hollister, Maryland School of Nursing, Class of 1939. Native of Hillsboro. 2LT Louise A. Hollister, RN, Army Nurse Corps, 1942-1943. She was Maryland’s only Army Nurse casualty in WWII. 2LT Louise Hollister was too busy...
by Don Barker | Oct 11, 2023 | Black History & Culture, Champions of Freedom & Civil Rights, dbarker, Women
She was born free in Caroline County. He was born across the river in Talbot, enslaved. They followed separate paths to Baltimore. Anna met Frederick for the first time at the city wharves. He was 19, she was 24. Frederick was an enslaved shipbuilder. Anna had a...
by Don Barker | Jun 1, 2021 | A.M.E. Church, Black History & Culture, dbarker, Women
First Black Churches and Congregations in the Choptank River Heritage Area, re-discovered through the journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee. Jarena Lee (1783-1849) was the first female preacher of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. She left her Philadelphia...
by Don Barker | Feb 21, 2021 | A.M.E. Church, Black History & Culture, Churches, Civil Rights & Racial Justice, Women
Meet Six Strong Black Women who were “First Ever” [ A Caroline Digital History Project collaboration with the Black Eastern Shore Project. Text, image, and sources from Black Women’s History on the Eastern Shore are republished here with...
by Don Barker | Apr 26, 2020 | Women
The murder of a Harmony schoolgirl in 1895 still shocks and fascinates county residents and true crime enthusiasts. Sallie Dean’s grave at Hillcrest Cemetery in Federalsburg. This article by Chad Dean was originally published by the Times-Record. Adapted...
by Don Barker | Mar 19, 2020 | dbarker, Women
In an unusual twist of fate, the Ridgely native – and prominent teacher, suffragette, and businesswoman – received more attention from the Baltimore press than from local media during her remarkable lifetime. [ Researched and written by Caroline...
by Don Barker | Feb 23, 2017 | Black History & Culture, dbarker, Women
Rosetta Douglass Sprague wrote in the memoir about her mother, Anna Murray Douglass, that young Frederick Bailey “gave his heart” to Anna Murray, and she “sympathized with him and she devoted all her energies to assist him” to escape slavery in...
by Don Barker | Feb 22, 2017 | Black History & Culture, Champions of Freedom & Civil Rights, dbarker, Schools, Women
The first woman president of the NAACP, Dr. Enolia P. McMillan, started her professional career as a teacher in Caroline County in 1927, when she taught at the Denton segregated black high school. The following year, she served as a school principal in Charles...
