The town of Trappe, Maryland started as a hamlet at a cross roads between 1750 and 1760! One road traveled from Island Creek to Abbott’s grist mill on Miles Creek and the other road ran from the ferry landing on Chancellor’s Point on the Choptank River to the Talbot Court House! Facts: “Trappe The Story of An Old Fashioned Town” by Dickson Preston 1996. Photo of Trappe, Maryland from the Talbot Historical Society’s Laird Wise Collection.
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Dan Watson says
Some remains of Abbot’s grist mill are still ther, just off the road at the headwaters of pristine Miles Creek. It’s about 200 yards from where Lakeside’s new spray irrigation drain field is situated….runoff heading right to that spot.
DW