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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

AN AMBULANCE FOR NEW CASTLE COUNTY IN 1916 — If someone needed an ambulance outside the City before 1916, word had to be telephoned to the Phoenix Fire Company in Wilmington. But constant calls to the New Castle County Hospital … Continue reading →

NEWARK — DAR PRESENTS AMBULANCE TO COLLEGE — Newark’s first ambulance, a gift from the Daughters of the American Revolution to the Delaware College, went in service on October 4, 1917. Manufactured by the White Ambulance Company, it was the … Continue reading →

The Harford County Lynching Memorial Committee had prepared to hold a remembrance and soil collection event at the end of March , but the the pandemic disrupted outreach plans. And with community engagement put on hold for an undetermined period, … Continue reading →