The Historic Landscape of Caroline County

In addition to general stores, shops, markets, and other mercantile establishments, we identified these miscellaneous enterprises in the Choptank River Heritage area:

  • Banks
  • Creameries
  • Fish Hatcheries
  • Fisheries
  • Foundries
  • Hotels
  • Ice Houses
  • Millineries
  • Newspapers
  • Printers
  • Plant Nurseries
  • Shipwrecks
  • Shipyards

 

We identified these sites primarily by georeferencing the 1875 Isler and 1897 Saulsbury maps of Caroline County.

In the map shown on this page, use the toggle at the upper left to turn on/off background layers for 1850-1900 maps of Caroline and surrounding counties. 

Use the grid icon to change the modern basemap from topographic to satellite imagery, roads and streets, or others.

Below the map are lists of miscellaneous enterprises which appear in the 1875 and 1897 maps.

See the larger map of Miscellaneous Commercial Enterprises in the Historic Landscape of Caroline County, Maryland with historical and imagery basemaps.

 


 

See our Choptank River Heritage Sites Research map application for the geographic locations of all documented sites.  These sites can be viewed over a variety of topographic, satellite and aerial imagery, and historic basemaps.

Many of the historic sites are described in detail here in the CCHS web site.  Use the website search box above to find pages and posts for sites by name.

Name Lat Lon
Print Shop -75.831 38.886
Skillington Shipyard -76.138 38.715
Printing Office -75.833 38.886
M.L. Smith, Hotel -75.773 38.69
Market -75.833 38.886
Millinery -75.806 38.973
Millinery -75.908 38.712
Muddy Shore -75.95123083 38.88451173
Pecks Point Shipyard -76.163 38.706
Peters & Darling Nurseries -75.835 38.884
Printing Office -75.773 38.693
Vesper Shipwreck -76.1359 38.7863
Wayman Shipyard -76.196397 38.744732
Pungy Shipwreck -75.8399 38.859
Rolf Hotel -75.941 38.917
A.W. Sisk, Hotel -75.909 38.711
Bank -75.831 38.886
C. Pennewell, Hotel -75.746 39.113
Cook Shipyard -76.278 38.617
Creamery -75.778 38.699
Fish Hatching Sta. No. 4 -75.921 38.858
Hillsboro Shipyard -75.9494 38.9122
Hotel -75.833 38.886
Hotel -75.832 38.886
Hotel -75.771 38.695
Hotel -75.773 38.69
Hotel -75.801 38.973
Hotel -75.942 38.917
Hotel -75.832 38.886
Hotel -75.833 38.885
Hotel -75.805 38.974
Hotel -75.884 38.947
Hotel -75.883 38.946
Ice House -75.773 38.704
J.W. Kerr Nurseries -75.829 38.877
Journal -75.833 38.886

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