This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...that it can hold its own with waterprivileged towns, if it is located inland, and inland in Talbot does not get one far from tidal shores. Two hundred years ago, you see I am constantly looking backward a couple of centuries in this land of tradition and Legendary Lore, Trappe was almost the centre of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...that it can hold its own with waterprivileged towns, if it is located inland, and inland in Talbot does not get one far from tidal shores. Two hundred years ago, you see I am constantly looking backward a couple of centuries in this land of tradition and Legendary Lore, Trappe was almost the centre of the Talbot settlements. White Marsh was its church, Oxford was its port, and from tobacco and grain fields about it, its revenues were drawn. About Trappe there are some fine old homes, and though proud of its age, it keeps up with the times, has good stores, is prosperous and growing. It boasts of a handsome Episcopal Church and rectory, a fine M. E. Church, pretty residences and the best of schools, those for colored as well as white children. Talbot takes especial care that the negro has the best of education. One striking feature of Trappe, and which is often passed by unnoticed, is a grave in the centre of the pavement of one of its streets. The grave lies parallel with the walk, its head and foot stones are well preserved, though dating far back, but I could not learn how it was that this grave came there in the public thoroughfare. Not far from Trappe lies the village, also inland, of Manasses, where there is a church, stores and school house, and where a good highway leads to a landing on the Choptank. The winding course of this river, whence it derives its name, Choptank, may be thus well illustrated: Any one in Eastern desiring a delightful afternoon and evening sail ou the steamer, can drive to Dover bridge, four miles distant on the Choptank, take one of the several steamboats, sail around the river and laud at Easton at nine o'clock the same night, having had a run of over seventy miles. At Dover is the drawbridge over which the people...
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