Author Archives: Mike Dixon

Brewington Book Prize Awarded to Jack Shaum for 122 Years on the Old Bay Line (America Through Time)

Posted on July 3, 2023 by Mike Dixon

BALTIMORE, Md. (May 2023) – After careful deliberation, the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC) is proud to award the 2023 Brewington Book Prize to Jack Shaum for his book 122 Years on the Old … Continue reading →

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Civil War Army Hospital in Wilmington

Posted on July 19, 2022 by Mike Dixon

While strolling around Wilmington a few days ago, we stopped by the bustling corner of Ninth and Tatnall streets, where a Civil War Hospital opened on March 6, 1863. The Tilton Hospital was named after Surgeon General James Tilton, a … Continue reading →

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New Book: 122 Year on the Old Bay Line

Posted on April 7, 2022 by Mike Dixon

New local history book 122 Years on the Old Bay Line By Jack Shaum ISBN:  9781634993999 $25.99 | 96  pages | paperback Available: Monday, May 23, 2022 About the Book Old Bay Line is the name by which the Baltimore … Continue reading →

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Talking About Murder, Mayhem, and Accidents on the Railroad With WBOC

Posted on August 11, 2021 by Mike Dixon

Tuesday, WBOC’s Delmarva Life asked me to stop by the Salisbury studio to talk about terrible railroad accidents and crimes, a time when murder and mayhem rode the rails on the Peninsula. In the decades around the turn of the … Continue reading →

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Dr. Laura Reading, a Pioneer Woman Physician, Established the Queen Anne’s County Hospital

Posted on May 27, 2021 by Mike Dixon

Dr. Laura Ewing Reading, a progressive physician, established the Queen Anne’s County Hospital in Centreville in 1910.  Within weeks of the facility’s opening on October 1 in the Coursey House on Commerce Street in Centreville, the institution had treated thirty … Continue reading →

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Echoes of the Past: 100 Years Apart – The Spanish Flu & COVID-19

Posted on March 8, 2021 by Mike Dixon

By Noah Zucker As Delaware nears the one-year anniversary of COVID-19’s life-altering presence in the state, historians are looking a full century into the past to draw connections to the modern age. In the midst of World War I, the … Continue reading →

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Dr. J. J. Jones Private Hospital in Wilmington

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Mike Dixon

With advances in health care in the last few decades of the 19th century, demand for hospitals staffed for around-the-clock care by nursing professionals and equipped with clinical laboratories, surgical suites, and other modern appliances took place.  Wilmington progressed in … Continue reading →

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Georgetown On Guard for Halloween in 1918

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Mike Dixon

The end of October, the occasion for ghosts and goblins, is usually a scary time in Sussex County as the day for a good old-fashioned Halloween frolic nears.  However, in 1918 people in Southern Delaware must have felt as if … Continue reading →

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Delmarva Spanish Flu Archive

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Mike Dixon

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Wilmington Had the “Halloween Flu” in 1918

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Mike Dixon

The end of October was usually a scary time in Wilmington as Halloween, with all its frolic, grinning jack-o-lanterns and mystic spirits, rolled around.  But with the city living through an actual nightmare, the Spanish Influenza, the city police department … Continue reading →

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