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• Brewington Book Prize Awarded to Jack Shaum for 122 Years on the Old Bay Line (America Through Time)
• Civil War Army Hospital in Wilmington
• New Book: 122 Year on the Old Bay Line
• Talking About Murder, Mayhem, and Accidents on the Railroad With WBOC
• Dr. Laura Reading, a Pioneer Woman Physician, Established the Queen Anne’s County Hospital
• Echoes of the Past: 100 Years Apart – The Spanish Flu & COVID-19
• Dr. J. J. Jones Private Hospital in Wilmington
• Georgetown On Guard for Halloween in 1918
• Delmarva Spanish Flu Archive
• Wilmington Had the “Halloween Flu” in 1918
• New Castle County Ambulance
• Daughters of the American Revolution Presents Newark With an Ambulance
• Harford County Lynching Memorial Committee Launches Blog
• Wilmington Needed Ambulances When the Spanish Influenza Struck
• Wilmington Nurses Paid a Heavy Price Fighting the Pandemic of 1918
• Delaware Women Serve on Juries After Registering to Vote
• Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Special Airs on Maryland Public Television.
• Archeological Society of Maryland Hosts Series of Lectures on Local Archeology
• An Early Pottery at Saint Mary Anne’s in North East
• Sudlersville Fire Engine Returns Home
• Wilmington was once the place for quick marriages
• Mike Dixon’s Lectures Available from the Delaware Humanities Forum
• Saving an Old Home Movie: Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train
• 11,000 Likes on Delmarva History
• Sassafras River History: A Community Discussion Hosted by the Sassafras River Association
• The Delmarva History Conversation Continues on Facebook
• Adventures in Research Program at Greenwood Library Spotlights the Greenwood Train Disaster of 1903
• Family Genealogists Help Document Story of Brakeman Edwin Roach Killed in Railroad Explosion
• The Women and their Kitten, Scouty, Advance on Washington, D.C.
• Researching the Greenwood Delaware Disaster of 1903
• A Day of Horror in Greenwood as Train With Deadly Cargo Explodes
• Tri-State Marker Trail Dedication and Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Mason Dixon Survey
• 94-Year Old Relative of Officer Killed in Line of Duty in 1915 Attends Wilmington Police Ceremony
• Maryland Paper Money: An Illustrated History, 1864-1935 Released
• History Happy Hour Features Talk about Steamboats on the Chester River
• Drys Walk in Dover to Stop the Flow of Booze in 1907
• Blogging Mill Creek Hundred History While Piecing Together Puzzles About the Past
• Learn About Life for Young Ladies in the 1860s Through Dance, Games & Music of the Period
• Delaware Treated to a Spectacle as Suffragists Tramp Across State
• Popular History Happy Hour in Kent County Features Chilling Murder Story
• The Suffrage Army Occupies Harford County
• Dan Coates Presents Results of Archaeological Study of the Susquehanna Canal
• Archaeologist to Discuss Field Investigation of Susquehanna Canal March 19th.
• Life on the Border: Marylanders during the Civil War at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, April 11
• New Program Showcasing Local History in Red Clay Valley a Big Hit
• Penns Grove Historical Society Opens Exhibit, “What’s on the Menu,” March 1st.
• C & D Canal, Perryville Railroad Site, and Hays-Heighe House Added to NPS Underground Railroad Network
• Railroad Tracks Across the Ice on the Susquehanna River at Havre de Grace.
• Hays-Heighe House Placed on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
• A Talk on African American Cemeteries of Delaware by Dr. David Orr
• Report of Archeological Investigations at Smithson Site to be Examined Feb. 11
• Dr. Sprinkle to lecture on Battlefield Preservation at the Kent County Historical Society
• Milford Museum Opens New Exhibit: Dry Spell: The Prohibition Experience in Delaware
• In the Composing Room at a Wilmington Newspaper, the Every Evening.
• Probate Records Available Online for Allegany, Baltimore City, Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Garrett, Kent, Prince Georges, Queen Anne’s, Somerset & Wicomico
• Underground Railroad Coalition of Delaware Examines Salem County NJ Interpretive Program
• Geology of the Lower Susquehanna River Examined in Archeological Society Talk
• Harford County Public Library Makes the Past More Accessible for Genealogists & Local History Researchers
• Remembering a Bel Air Police Officer Who Died 94 Years Ago While Protecting the Community
• WHYY Looking for Stories About Route 13 (Du Pont Highway) for Documentary
• Sheriff Jones Recalls 40 Years of Law Enforcement Work in Somerset County
• Last Train to Havre de Grace
• Sharing Delmarva’s Past
• Stealing Freedom Along the Mason Dixon Line
• Salisbury Fire Department & Others Take to the Air in 1950
• Mrs. Royall’s Pennsylvania …or Travel’s Continued In the United States
• Belvidere Fire Company’s First Engine
• Underground Railroad Coalition of Delaware Lecture: Stealing Freedom Along the Mason Dixon Line
• Newark Historical Society Hosts Humanities Talk on History of Railroads in Delaware Sept. 30
• Salisbury Police Take to the Air in 1941
• Eastern Shore Digital Maps Available from Sheridan Library at Johns Hopkins University
• Historical Society of Kent County Offers Thoughtful Programs: The Case of USCT Obie Evans Was Examined This Month
• Photographer Ed Herbener Produced Many of Delaware’s Real Photo Postcards
• At History Happy Hour Dr. Newton Examines Story of the Murder of Escaped Slave & Civil War Soldier
• Pass the Rum: The Rise & Fall of Prohibition, a Program at the Woodlawn Branch, August 27
• DelMarVa Postcard and Local History Show, Dover, Sept. 13, 2014
• Links to High Quality Digital Content for Local & Family History Research on Delmarva
• The Gorsuch Tavern and the Christiana Resistance of 1851
• Southern Lancaster Co. Historical Society Presents Early Tinware in the Home
• Delaware Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society Hosts Family History Workshop, July 26
• Dan Tabler Rememembers Centreville in an Earlier Time at Queen Ann’s County Free Library
• Hard-Working Lawman Started In Caroline County When the Sheriff and One Deputy Kept the Peace
• LaMonte Cooke Got His Start in the Old Days as a Rookie Kent County Deputy.
• Rev White of Bethel A.M.E. Urges Families to Document History
• 1912: Will the Society Admit Women to Full Membership?
• The Archaeologial Festival at Iron Hill Explores History of Area
• Archaeological Festival at Iron Hill May 4, 2014
• 1910: Acquiring Materials on African American Education
• Relic from Earlier Time Watches Over Former New Castle County Prison Farm Property
• Milford Historical Society Serves as Community’s Heritage Keeper
• Rescue Fire Company of Cambridge on Cover of 1957 Fire Engineering
• Mob Law on Delmarva, a New Regional Book by Linda Duyer
• Delaware African-Americans Newspapers Chronicle the Local Story
• Three Gun Wilson Arrives to Save Delaware From Skullduggery, Evils of Speakeasies and Booze
• Worm Moon Rising Over Havre de Grace
• Searching Maryland’s Online Land Records
• Kent County Presents Spreading the News During the War of 1812 on March 7.
• White Gold on the Delaware Bay — Documentary Examines History of Oystering in Delaware
• Title Provides Glimpse of African-American History in Talbot County, From Slavery to Modern Era
• On the Old Baltimore and Harford Turnpike
• “The Bloodhound Law: the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850,” to be Examied by Woolford in Talk at Bear Library
• Susquehanna Museum Presents Camay Calloway Murphy Lecture Feb. 20
• The B & O Railroad Station in Havre de Grace
• At the Close of a Winter Day in Old New Castle
• The February Ice Storm in Northeastern Harford County
• A Long Winter on the Susquehanna in Harford County
• More Online Maryland Newspapes Available at Maryland Archives.
• Series Commemorating 150th Anniversary of End of Slavery in MD Includes Play, “Susquehanna to Freedom”
• “Gather at the Table: Faces of Freedom,” a program on the Legacy of Slavery at Harford Community College
• Underground Railroad Research Jam Features Story of Kidnapping in Port Penn
• Along the Brandywine Creek on a Gloomy Saturday in Mid-January
• “Delaware History” Examines Lynching of African-American Civil War Veteran
• Dorchester County’s Fine Jail Opened to Prisoners in 1883
• Washington Crosses the Delaware on Christmas Day
• Syl Woolford to Discuss African American Genealogy on WDEL
• The Dover Delaware Police Department in 1956
• Cambridge Creek and the Choptank River on a Late Autumn Day
• Some Small Town Radio Stations Still Serve the Community With Local Programming.
• Solanco Historical Society Presents a Concert for the Civil War.
• USCT Civil War Living History Program at Hosanna School Museum Nov. 9
• War of Worlds Broadcast Wasn’t the First Time Delawareans Heard About Martian Invasion of Delaware
• On Halloween Eve 75-years ago, Radio Play Alarms Wilmington
• Enjoying a Fine Autumn Day In Historic Salem City, NJ
• Old Methodist Church Catches Few Rays of Sun on Autumn Day.
• Andrew Coldren Shared the Stories of the USCT From Salem County, NJ
• Leipsic River Nourished the Growth of Leipsic, a Port in Kent County
• Moon Rising Over Old Glasgow Presbyterian Church
• Milford Public LIbrary Digitizes Old Town Newspapers
• Delaware Humanities Forum Explores First State’s Largest City in Audio Tour
• The Flickr Commons Has Old Delaware Postcards
• The Civil War Embalming Surgeon: A Living History Interpretation at Gettysburg
• Hagley Digital Archives Helps Delaware Researchers With Online Collections
• St. James – An Attractive Delaware Episcopal Church
• Caulk’s Field Remembered in a Two-Day War of 1812 Kent County Program This Weekend
• An Enjoyable Trip Back in Time at Fort Delaware Over the Labor Day Weekend
• Free Online Digital Libraries have Delaware Histories, Gazetteers, State Directories, Law Books and More on Demand
• Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collection Contains Delaware B & O Railroad Images
• Online Delaware Historic Maps Help Researchers
• Plenty of Parking on a Late August Afternoon at McCready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield
• The Accomack County Courthouse on VA’s Eastern Shore Has Valuable Research Records
• Dr. Wilson to Speak on Patty Cannnon at Delaware Archives.
• Freedom Seeker & USCT from Eastern Shore’s Final Resting Place in Woodstown
• Reenactment of the Burning of Chambersburg
• Driving Nine: A Road Through Time and History in Delaware
• Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train Passed Through Harford County in 1968
• Online Historical Maps of Harford County
• Hosanna School Museum Sponsors Stories of Everyday People in the War of 1812
• Daylight Fades at a Rural Cemetery Outside Darlington
• First State Heritage Park Puts Spotlight on Delaware History In An Engaging and Informative Way
• Eastern Shore of VA Public Library an Important Resource for Family and Local History Research
• Harford County Public Library Program: Duck & Cover: Remembering the Days of Sputnik, Conelrad & Fallout Shelters
• Thousands of Digital Delaware Picture Postcards Depict State History at Public Archives
• Eastern Shore Sunset on a Hot Day in Late Spring
• Adkins Arboretum Presents Quality Audio Tour About Nature’s Role In Underground Railroad
• Salem City NJ, An Interesting Historic District & Town
• On the Mason Dixon Line in Western MD & Central PA
• Website for Real Time Marine Traffic on Delaware & Chesapeake Bays, and C & D Canal
• Old Signs Reflect Past Times in Western Maryland
• Fine Old 19th Century Hotel/Tavern Looks Forward to Strong Run Through 21st Century
• Enjoyable War of 1812 Bicentennial Event as Havre de Grace is in the Spotlight.
• Wilmington Police Officer Slain 122 Years Ago Remembered in Service
• History on the Line: The Fenwick Island Lighthouse
• Carroll County Library Digitizes Westminster Newspaper
• Salisbury’s Victorian Gothic Courthouse – A Fine Example of Public Architecture
• Author to Discuss New Book: Havre de Grace in the War of 1812: Fire on the Chesapeake
• Digitized Somerset County Newspapers a Great Help to Genealogists and Historians
• The C & D Canal During the Civil War – A Talk at New Castle Public Library
• Harford Hero of the Civil War: Alfred B. Hilton, Medal of Honor Recipient
• NPS Workshop Examines How to Tell the Untold Stories of the War of 1812
• Nabb Research Center Digitizes Old Newspapers from Lower Delaware & the Eastern Shore of Maryland
• Digital University Collections For Researching Delaware History
• Symposium on 18th Century Abolitonist at Hale-Byrnes House
• A Preservation Success Story: 150 Year-Old Jail Saved in Princess Anne
• Productive Day Doing Genealogical Research at Somerset County Courthouse
• Research Treasures Reside in Delmar Public Library Collection
• Getting Ready to Act Out Some High Drama on the Upper Chesapeake, During Two War of 1812 Historical Theatre Productions
• Blogging Shore History on Reflections on Delmarva’s Past — 2012 in review
• Delaware Humanities Program on Saving Family Treasures at Woodlawn Library on Jan 7th.
• Revolutionary War Reenactors Provide History Lesson on Christmas Day: Washington Crosses the Delaware Again
• The War of 1812 in Delaware: A Helpful Digital Resource from the State Archives.
• The Crime and the Time — A History of Delaware’s Criminal Justice System Subject of Talk at Georgetown Historical Society
• An Old Harford County House of Worship, Watters Meeting House, Catches a Few Rays of Sun
• Historical Content of Wilmington Newspaper, The Sunday Morning Star, Available for Free on Google
• The March of Progress in Glasgow
• Cecil College Offers New Continuing Education Course: Maryland and the War of 1812
• Living History Units Portrays Gettysburg Vol. Fire Department During Civil War Era
• Gettysburg Remembrance Weekend Parade – 2012
• Gettysburg Remembrance Weekend and Illumination
• Maryland Archives Workshop: Identifying Slave Owners in Maryland
• Interest in History of the Mason Dixon Line Grows as 250th Anniversary Nears
• Learning about Delaware history at Old Court House Museum
• Archaeologist to Speak on the Rumsey/Polk Site at Middletown Historical Society
• Delaware City Talk Explores History of the C & D Canal, Oct. 25th
• War of 1812 Weekend in Kent County Brings Series of Activities to Chestertown
• Historian Syl Woolford on WILM Sunday, Sept. 30th
• Those Little Delaware Traveling Libraries
• Many Research Treasures Reside in Delmarva History Collection at Odessa Library
• Delmar Celebrates its Past With Heritage Pride Day 2012
• Series of War of 1812 Lectures Offered in Kent County in October
• Eager to Start Digging Up Roots, A Hundred People Pack Genealogy Workshop
• Remembering Kent County’s Battle of Caulks Field During the War of 1812
• Name That Ghost — A program at the Berlin Library on Oct. 29
• That Nest of Priates on the Chesapeake — The War of 1812, Sept. 13.
• Pin Some History: New Collaborative Picture Archive Opens a Virtual Window on the Past
• Crossing the Nanticoke River From 1740 to the Present at Woodland DE
• Healey to Speak About Heroes & Villians of War of 1812 at Harford Community College on Sept. 6th
• Kidnappers on the Edge
• CARDIN, MIKULSKI ANNOUNCE ALMOST $200,000 IN FEDERAL FUNDING FOR HARRIET TUBMAN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD BYWAY
• Old Church in Pondtown Basks in Summer Sun
• Four Kiosks Delve into the War of 1812 Story on the Upper Chesapeake
• Rev. Clarence Hawkins to Speak About Kent County Abolitionist During History Happy Hour in Chestertown
• Historic Digital Maps of Maryland and Delaware Are Just a Click Away on New Website
• Havre de Grace and the War of 1812: Kiosk Has the Story
• Listening to Journey Stories on a Tour Through Berkely, A Small Place With Big History
• Remembering Agnes: ‘We really took a hit’
• Learning About Slavery and Freedom in Delaware’s Urban Park Without Boundaries
• Learning About Slavery and Freedom in Delaware’s Urban Park Without Boundaries
• Damned If You Do; Damned If You Don’t – Lecture on the History of the Conowingo Dam
• Journey Stories Bring National Historian, Fergus Bordewich, To Bel Air
• Historic Hosanna School Museum Website Opens
• Lost & Found: The Forgotten Communities of Aberdeen Proving Ground, An Exhibit at Hosanna
• The War of 1812: 200th Anniversary Commemoration: Preview
• Focusing on War of 1812, Delaware 2012 Chautauqua Features Andrew Jackson, Dolly Madison, Francis Scott Key, & Mary Pickersgill
• Fort Delaware Video From Delaware State Parks
• Delaware Civil War Soldier, an Enlisted Man With the United States Colored Troops, Visits Dover
• The War of 1812 on the Chesapeake
• Searching for the First Draft of History: Lessons About the War of 1812 in Stacks of Old Newspapers
• Marking the 145th Memorial Day in Gettysburg and at the National Cemetery
• Historical Society of Delaware Tour Explores C & D Canal History on June 16
• Middletown Historical Society Makes Searching the Town’s Newspaper Easy
• Havre de Grace and the War of 1812 – A Lecture, May 17
• New Interpretive Map Shows Start of Philadelphia Campaign, From Head of Elk to Cooch’s Bridge in Revolutionary War
• Experience the Civil War on Mother’s Day at Greenbank Mills and Philips Farm
• 60-year-old fire truck returns to Singerly
• An Old Man Recalled the British Attack on Fredericktown and Georgetown During War of 1812
• Hosanna School Museum Presents Journey Stories Exhibit, African American Genealogy Workshop and Tour Through Berkely
• Diocese of Wilmington Puts Burial Database, Along With Pre-1900 Baptism and Marriage Records Online
• Battle of Cooch’s Bridge Interpretive Map Opens for First Showing on May 6
• Wilmington Fire Engine Rushed on Special Train to Fight Blaze in Havre de Grace
• Big Read Author Tim O’Brien Visits the Eastern Shore to Talk About His Book “The Things They Carried”
• Listening in on the War of 1812: Lockhouse Museum Adds Audio Theater to Enhance Visitor Experience
• Searching for the First Draft of History: Lessons About the War of 1812 in Stacks of Old Newspapers
• Ice on the Susquehanna and War of 1812 on Exhibit As Lock House Reopens for Season
• Pulitzer-Winning Historian Alan Taylor to Speak April 12 at Washington College About African Americans and the War of 1812 on the Chesapeake
• Sharing Stories About An Old Kent County Sheriff and His Faithful Horse
• Hosanna School Partners with Library to Present Lost and Found: The Forgotten Communities of APG as Part of Smithsonian Journey Stories
• Smithsonian’s Journey Stories Coming to Harford County Public Library
• Delaware History Connections: Thomas Garrett and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Searching for Your Family Roots In the 1940 Census: A Program at the Delaware Archives
• Chestertown GAR Post and Country Store in Still Pond Make List of Endangered Historic Properties in Maryland for 2012
• Delmarva History: The Eastern Shore and the War of 1812 at Salisbury University on March 29
• Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace Celebrates 100 Years of Healthcare Delivery
• Historic Aerial Maps From 1930s Forward Aid Delaware Researchers
• Havre de Grace in the 1930s From the Eye of Herbert McCommons — a talk by David Craig
• Crossing the Line in a Border Town
• Become Youth Curator as Part of Exciting Smithsonian Project Coming to Harford County
• The Battle For Women’s Right To Vote Was on Today at the First State Heritage Park
• Waiting for the Train on a Snow Day in Newark in 1899
• Delaware Archives Creates Virtual Exhibit on the Storm of March 1962
• Chestertown Newsstands!
• Researching Somerset, Worcester, & Other Eastern Shore Counties: It’s a New Ball Game as Free Websites Provide Digital Copies of Wills, Maps, Newspapers, and Photos
• Researcher Fills in Important Gaps in Delaware’s History, While Uncovering the Story of African American Communities
• Researcher Alert: Middletown Historical Society Digitized Middletown Transcript
• Archaeology of the War of 1812 to be Presented Feb. 23.
• Delaware Civil War African American Program Feb. 21 2012
• Unraveling the Mystery of Centuries Old Buildings and Houses
• Railroad Helped Make Crisfield “Seafood Capital of the World”
• Travers Tours offers “Experience New Castle Now” Walking Tours
• Scale Model Takes Havre de Grace Back to the Day Before the British Savagely Attacked Town During War of 1812
• War of 1812 Bicentennial Observance Exhibit Opens Feb. 1st With Period Music & Stories Performed by Costumed Interpreters
• Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War – A Reading & Discussion Series
• The Betterton Fire Company
• Ellsworth Shank Havre de Grace History Lecture Series Announced For 2012
• January Lecture: Heroes and Villains of 1812: A Look at the Personalities in the War of the Chesapeake
• Baltimore City Paper Names Online Collection of Photographs at MD Historical Society One of the Best in 2011
• The Evolution of Energy on the Cheseapeake: From Indian Settlements to the Present
• Along the C & D Canal: St. Georges Delaware About 1912
• 2012 Paper Americana Show in Elkton Features Over 30 Collectibles Dealers
• Christmas Greetings From One Hundred Years Ago
• Over the Hill to the Kent County Poorhouse in Wyoming, DE
• The MA & PA Railroad, Examined in a New Book.
• Lecture on How to Do Oral Histories at Havre de Grace Library, Dec. 6, 2011
• Thanksgiving Greeting From Cordova in 1911
• An Old Newark Covered Bridge
• Waiting for the Train at the Centreville Depot
• Dan Rodricks’ Program Features a Recorded Interview With H.L. Mencken
• Havre de Grace Kicks Off Bicentennial of War of 1812 Celebration With Community History Day
• Community History Day in Havre de Grace, Oct. 29.
• War of 1812 Commemoration Kicks Off With Community History Day in Havre de Grace, Oct. 29th
• Delaware Public Archives, One of the Best Around
• Susquehanna Hose Company Talk Examines History of the Havre de Grace Fire Dept.
• The Historical Society of Kent County announces publication of The Great Explosion, Kent Manufacturing, July 16, 1954
• Eastern Shore Farm Glows in Afternoon Summer Sun
• A Fragmented Nation, A Divided State, a Program at the Delaware Archives, Oct. 1, 2011
• Chestertown Spy: Digging Through the Delmarva to get to the Sea
• Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of an unforgettable manhunt in Havre de Grace
• Sailor’s Delight on the Corsica River as Red Sky Fades to Night
• Flooding Early Friday Morning Around the Old Lockhouse in Havre de Grace
• Governor Martin O’Malley Announces Funding For Harriet Tubman Visitor Center
• You’re Leaving The Business District of Downtown Goldsboro
• Kent County voter records shed light on local history
• Somerset County Wills Digitized
• Aug 6 Delaware Archives Talk Explores How Geography Shaped History of the First State
• The History of Aberdeen Proving Ground, a Talk at the Havre de Grace Maritime Museum July 27
• Red Star Lines Bus for Claiborne, Tolchester, Chestertown, Cambridge, Salisbury and Other Points on the Delmarva
• Downtown Millington in 1940
• Summer Time at Kent County Beaches
• Small Museum Serving as Sudlersville’s Legacy Keeper, Has Expansion Plans
• Pirate Fest ’11 in Havre De Grace July 9th & 10th, 2011
• WYPR’s Maryland Morning: A Token For A Buck
• Cruising Dorchester County Waters on Skipjack Nathan to Learn About Choptank’s Role in Underground Railroad
• WEDNESDAY EVENT IN CHESTERTOWN EXPLORES CULTURAL DIVERSITY VIA COMMUNITY DIALOGUE
• 144th Memorial Day Observance in Gettysburg Includes Parade and Program in National Cemetery
• The Trolley Connects Middletown and Odessa
• To Hell and Back: The First State in Blue and Gray a Program at the Delaware Archives, June 4, 2011
• Chautauqua 2011: The American Civil War – A House Divided
• An Evening Walk at Adkins Arboretum Explores Underground Railroad on the Eastern Shore
• Re-live the War of 1812 Attack on Havre de Grace May 7 & 8, 2011
• Magazine Lists Milton As One of the Best Old House Neighborhoods for 2011
• WJZ 13: Mason-Dixon Mystery Solved By Pa. College Students
• The Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route: Lecture April 15, 2011 at Maritime Museum in Havre de Grace
• Lock House Museum Opens With 1840s Working Model of Lower End of Susquehanna & Tidewater Canal
• Delaware Archives Makes Death, Birth & Marriage Certificates Available Online
• Havre de Grace 1812 Project Launches Blog
• Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture Launches Blog
• Exploring Tangible History In Superb Program at Adkins Arboretum
• The Key to Kent County History: MD Historical Society Rolls Out Resdesigned Website With Digital Resources
• Nature’s Role in the Underground Railroad at Adkins Arboretium March 20, 2011
• Washington Post: Harriet Tubman vs. John Hanson: Statuary Hall smackdown
• Hearn Oil Company Filling Station in Seaford in 1926
• Havre de Grace Patch: Prohibition: A City Along a River, Dry as a Bone?
• University of Delaware Library digitizes Iron Hill oral histories
• Havre de Grace History: the Prohibition Era – Havre de Grace Underground
• It’s Not the End of the Line for Old Goldsboro Railroad Station
• Middletown’s 150th Anniversary Ball, Feb. 12, 2011
• Havre de Grace Patch: Bicentennial of War of 1812 Attack on Havre de Grace Will Be Marked With Special Events
• Welcome to Delaware: 93 Miles to the Delaware Memorial Bridge
• 2011 Ellsworth Shank Lecture Series at Lock House Museum in Havre de Grace Announced
• Havre de Grace Patch, a New Media Outlet, Launches Local History Column
• New Blog Focuses on History of Havre de Grace
• Chautauqua 2011 From the MD Humanities Council: The American Civil War: A House Divided
• Happy New Year from a Century Ago: Old Postcard Greetings
• Disastrous Railroad Accident Takes Seven Lives in Delmar in 1909
• Downtown Salisbury After World War II
• “Wishing You a Very Merry Christmas:” Old Season’s Greetings From The Past
• Mudd House Opens for Victorian Christmas Celebration
• First State Heritage Park Produces Fine Production About Becoming the First State
• A Candlelit Historical Theater Event: “Fully, Freely and Entirely” – Becoming the First State, An Excellent Program This Weekend
• Let Your Fingers Do the Walking in Those Old Phone Books While Researching Delmarva
• Remembrance Illumination at Soldiers’ National Cemetery
• Between Fences Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit Comes to Havre de Grace November 12, 2010 – December 31, 2010
• Postcard: City Hall & Fire Station, Princess Ann, MD.
• Main Street Havre de Grace Sponsors Graw Days Festival This Weekend
• First Friday Includes Lecture by War of 1812 Expert & Release of Our Stories, Our Songs
• Lots of Maryland Lore in Local Author’s Newest Book
• Baltimore Sun: Family of Baltimore Sun’s Poet, Folger McKinsey, Gather for 100th Reunion
• Celebrate Release of 2009 “Our Stories: Our Songs” on Oct 1st.
• Enjoying Labor Day at Betterton Beach in 1906
• Havre de Grace Launches Walking Tours of Historic Town
• War of 1812 Program Examines the Archeology of British Raids at Frenchtown, Havre de Grace & Fredericktown
• NPR Airs Series on I-95, Including Segment on Delaware Travel Plaza
• “History Happy Hour” Hears About Peter Parker & Terror on the Chesapeake in Two War of 1812 Programs
• Dover Post: Smithsonian Scientist to Examine Kidnapper Patty Cannon’s Remains
• Discover the Legends, Lore and Secrets of Delmarva
• Delaware Public Archives Not Resting on Its Legacy: It’s Firmly Planted in the Digital Age
• Downtown Pocomoke City at the Top of the 20th Century
• Written in Stone: Unusual Tombstones Have Stories
• Pencader Presbyterian Church Prepares to Celebrate 300th Anniversary
• Havre de Grace & Perryville Receive Grants as MD Tourism Agency Focuses on War of 1812
• Steam Fire Engine at the Academy Fire in Cambridge
• Fine Meals on Baltimore Steam Packet Ships While Sailing Down Chesaepake Bay
• Newark History Museum to Open Sundays in Old Railroad Depot
• Chestertown Spy: Before the War: The Faces of Chestertown in 1940
• Maryland Humanities Brings Thurgood Marshall to Easton
• Mill Creek Hundred History Blog Focuses on the Past in Heart of New Castle County
• Chautauqua to Visit Easton July 12, 13 & 14
• Celebrate Independence Day In Dover With Loyalists, Revolutionaries and Other Characters From the Past
• John Barth, Literary Pioneer From Cambridge Honored
• Salisbury Soapbox Covers the Past
• The Murder of Wilmington Officer Charles Schultz Still Unsolved
• Remembering Kent County’s African American Civil War Soldiers on Memorial Day
• Slide Show: Celebrating the Tradition of African American Civil War Veterans in Kent County
• Popular Fish Fry to Support African American Schoolhouse Museum Returns on June 19
• A Treasure Trove of Maryland History Moves Online
• Delmarva Now: Delaware State Parks Historian Lee Jennings Will be Missed
• Senator Mikulski Announces Funds for Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Dorchester County
• A New Title by David Healey: Legends and Lore of Delmarva
• Happy Hour Brings Talk About Oyster Wars as Two Aging “Oyster Policemen” Meet
• War of 1812 Cannon Monument Rededicated at Havre de Grace
• British Overrun Havre de Grace Again as Hundreds of People Watch
• War of 1812 Re-enactment in Havre de Grace This Weekend — Sat. May 1
• Monthly Discussion Group Explores Harriet Tubman-Underground Railroad History
• Experience Life in the 1860s at the Hannah More Academy for Young Ladies
• Tales From the Crypt: Excavations at Historic St. Mary’s City
• Attractive Blog Publishing News, Art & History on the Upper Bay
• Salisbury Daily Times: Book Explores the Shores Great Pastime
• Susquehanna Museum Reopening, April 10th
• Chestertown Spy: The Prince’s Evening of Reconciliation
• Harford Dagger: The Trial That Never Was: The Back Story Why H. Rap Brown Fizzled, Even A Car Explosion Backfired In A Masterpiece Of Ineptitude
• Theatre Reconciliation Celebration Recalls Time When All the Seats Weren’t Open to All Movie-Goers
• History Happy Hour Brings Author of “The War of 1812 in Chesapeake” to Chestertown
• ‘Glory’ March 13th at the Norman James Theater at Washington College
• Worton Point Colored School No. 2: Former Students Recall Their School Days
• Theatre Reconiliation/Blessing – Chestertown
• During Midnight Raid on Freight Car in 1900, Clayton Police Officer Slain
• Betterton: No Undertaker, Bailiff, Cemetery, Lawyer, Doctor or Preacher
• New Chesapeake City Virtual Exhibit Opens on Web
• To and From the Eastern Shore: The Chesapeake Bay Bridge
• New Blog, “DelMar History” Focuses on Sussex Co & Nearby Areas in MD & Delaware.
• Eastern Haunted Shore Flies Off Bookshelves – WBOC-TV 16, Delmarvas News Leader
• “Fully, Freely, and Entirely – Becoming the First State,” an Outstanding Program
• The First State Heritage Park Presents Historical Theater Events at Old State House in Dover
• The National Day of Listening
• So What Was the Weather on That Day 80 Years Ago on Delmarva? The Weatherman Knows
• Chestertown’s First Annual Book Festival Pulls Them Downtown
• An Audio Journey into Chestertown’s Past
• New History of Chestertown by Joan Horsey & Carrie Schrieber
• Freight Train Plunges into the C & D Canal
• From Claiborne to Ocean City on the Red Star Coach
• Main Street Has Stories To Be Told
• Chestertown Remembers: The Day the Defense Plant Exploded
• September Jubilee at the Prince Theatre
• Delaware City Celebrates Fences – July 18
• Mardela Springs, Delmar, & Marydel Examined In New Title About Border Towns
• African-American Schoolhouse Musem Documents 20 Stories & Records 17 Performances
• A Rainy Saturday Doesn’t Dampen Program at One Room Schoolhouse in Worton Point
• African American School House Museum at Worton Point
• From Chestertown Spy: Glory & Hallujahs for GAR Hall on Friday
• Eastern Shore Police Association Honors 33 Fallen Officers from the Shore
• Three Fallen Crisfield Police Officers Added to Memorial During National Police Week
• Grand Army of the Republic, Charles Sumner Post # 25 Open House
• African American SchoolHouse Museum Sponsors Fish Fry on June 20
• Maryland Insurance Companies Must Disclose Slave Policies
• Queen Annes Group Works to Save Area’s Railroad History
• Slide Show on Delmarva Railroad History
• Terrible Railroad Calamity at the C & D Canal Drawbridge
• Queen Annes County 200 Years Behind in The Way of Prisons
• Blog on School Integration Posts Interesting Piece on Kent County School
• We’ll Check Out the Moonman Again This Evening
• Thanks Moonman For Making A Ride Down The Delaware Coast More Enjoyable
• Blog Site Focusing on Integration on Eastern Shore Enhanced
• The Peninsula Directory – Dagsboro & Frankford Delaware in 1882
• Dorchester County Communities in 1882 — Dailsville, Draw Bridge, & East New Market
• Beer, What Magic the Sound Held on the Eastern Shore in 1933
• Automobile Tales
• Shore Blogging
• Interviewing Around the Shore: Remembering Chief Jesse Carmine, Crisfield PD
• Kent County News (MD) urges commissioners to do more for preservation
• Uniquely Chincoteague, Radio WCTG
• Hill’s Jitney Service – Chesapeake City
• Eastern Shoreman Thomas Mogle, Cecil County Sheriff 1966-70 Died
• For the First Time in 70-Years an Andrew Isn’t Running the Caroline County Jail
• New Blog Examines School Integration in Cecil, Kent & Queen Anne’s counties
• Web Site Features Old Wilmington
• Shore History Offered to Stranger to Ensure Its Preservation
• Reading Old Diaries – Civil War Days on the C & D Canal
• WRNR Interviews C & D Canal staff for Voices of the Bay
• Badges of Honor: Tales of Eastern Shore Lawmen
• More Photos from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
• Opening the Modern Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
• Crime and Punishment – The Whipping Post
• Reflecting on Delmarva’s Past