News from the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay
On Saturday, February 11th, 2023 12pm-8pm the Frederick Douglass “Day of Acknowledgement” celebration will include live musical performances by Dell Foxx Company Band, a Frederick Douglass reenactor, educational programming, keynote speakers, and more. “This celebration will illuminate the role of African Americans in the history of the Eastern Shore and their contributions.” says Bayside H.O.Y.A.S., […]
Continue ReadingDid you know there’s an enormous, ancient, endangered fish swimming throughout the Chesapeake Bay? If not, the third- and fourth-grade students at Choptank Elementary School in Cambridge have a lot to tell you! Over the winter, students gathered with school staff and community partners to install a mural celebrating this fish—the Atlantic sturgeon—as the culmination […]
Continue ReadingBaltimore, MD — In an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid may have been the most exalted racehorse of them all. In 1979, he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness — and transcended his sport on a run of 12 consecutive stakes victories. But his quest for the Triple Crown was lost with a […]
Continue ReadingThe Delaware Public Archives is happy to present the installation of a NEW Delaware Historical Marker, “Women’s Suffrage in Delaware.” This Marker remembers the 1920 conference that was held by Sussex County’s members of the General Assembly that heard opinions in support of and against women’s suffrage. This Delaware Historical Marker, the third of four […]
Continue ReadingOn Friday, October 8, 2021 at 6 p.m. ET, The Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College Director Adam Goodheart will speak with Professor Van E. Gosse about Kent County native and abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet and the origins of Black politics. Gosse is the author of a new book […]
Continue ReadingCROWNSVILLE, MD – The Maryland Historical Trust (MHT), a division of the Maryland Department of Planning (Planning), and the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture (MCAAHC) today announced the availability of $1,000,000 in grant funds through the African American Heritage Preservation Program (AAHPP). The goal of the AAHPP is to identify and preserve […]
Continue ReadingOne of the major country roads on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is MD313. The 76 miles Northbound road begins at US50 in Mardela Springs, Wicomico County, and runs to MD213 in Galena, Kent County. One of the town the road runs through is Sudlersville. Sitting at the red light, look to your left you’ll see the […]
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March 10th is celebrated as Harriet Tubman Day. I thought that it only be fitting to devote March to Harriet Tubman and locations along the Tubman Byway. The Tubman Byway is a self-guided driving tour of 45 designated sites that winds for 125 miles through Maryland’s Eastern Shore counties of Dorchester and Caroline, then continues […]
Continue ReadingToday when one thinks of Eastern Neck Island in Kent County, MD it’s as a National Wildlife Refuge. In the 1650’s when Maryland Colony was only a couple of decades old, Major Joseph Wickes obtained land grants on Eastern Neck Island. It was there that he built his mansion, Wickliffe. The Island served as County […]
Continue ReadingDue to current coronavirus restrictions the Delaware Public Archives will be presenting its August First Saturday program in an online format only. Titled “Left Newport … Before Daylight and March’d to Chads Ford”: The Landscape of Conflict before the Battle of Brandywine, 1777, the program focuses on archaeology found at the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Brandywine. […]
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