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December 9, 2023

Talbot Spy

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Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Heading Off to Oakland Mills

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What used to be known as Oakland Mills became Tunis Mills, Maryland in 1879 when the town’s Post Office opened. The Mill, owned by W. W. Tunis started running circa 1865 and became the largest Mill on the Eastern Shore of Maryland! By 1900, 276 people lived in Tunis Mills and there was a daily stage to Easton, Maryland! Facts: “ From Pot Pie to Hell & Damnation” by Laurence G. Claggett 2004. This Talbot Historical Society photo of the old Tunis Mill Bridge was taken before 1925.

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Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Catching at Flight at Newnam Field

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Love this picture of a model airplane show that was held at Easton Airport/ Newnam Field in Easton, Maryland in 1960! Do you remember attending this event? Maybe you know someone who had one of these model airplanes from the past! Photo from the Talbot Historical Society’s Collections.

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Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Getting Down to Work

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This Talbot Historical Society H. Robins Hollyday photo presents a bit of a mystery! Do you recognize where this was taken? Maybe it’s Newcomb, Maryland next to the bridge? The water in the background looks like the Miles River but the buildings and gas station do not look familiar? The trucks and equipment that are next to the two railroad cars appear to be either for farming or road building? Notice the man standing in the railroad car, maybe he shoveled slag out into the trucks below?

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Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Making Sure to Meet the Train on Time

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What a great picture of a railroad car next to a small train station! The c. 1890’s photo features a man on a horse and a horse and carriage! This Talbot Historical Society found in collection photo was probably taken next to the Easton, Maryland Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railroad Station that is in the background. Perhaps some of our Eastern Shore expert Railroad followers can add more information about this special photo from the past!

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THS Hosts Dr. Clara Small for Lecture on African American Civil War Soldiers

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Dr. Small’s lecture will offer special emphasis on the Unionville Eighteen including their fight to serve in the war, their impact on the war, and their plight after the war.

Dr. Clara Small is a historian, a retired Salisbury University professor and an accomplished author having written books such as “Reality Check: Brief Biographies of African-Americans on Delmarva”, “Compass Points Volume: Profiles and Biographies of African Americans from the Delmarva Peninsula l, ll & lll”, “They Wore Blue and Their Hearts Were Loyal: The United States Colored Troops of Dorchester County, Maryland”. She has also served as a member of the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture.

Date: Wednesday November 8, 2023 at 1pm

Location: 25 S. Washington Street

$5 for THS Members and

$10 for non-members

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Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Taking the Houseboat to Claiborne

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A special thanks to Bill Spivey for sharing photos and a memoir his Dad Joel Spivey wrote before he passed on a few years ago. In the early 1930’s Joel Spivey’s parents lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania and found a remarkable way to enjoy spending time at the Maple Hall Inn in Claiborne, Maryland during the summer! Joel Spivey’s parents created this amazing house boat out of an old barge and used it as an inexpensive way to enjoy all of the wonderful things the Maple Hall Inn had to offer. At that time you could moor a boat nearby and pay a fee to dine at the Inn. The house boat had 3 bedrooms, a kitchen, living room and a bathroom with a screen porch on top! The family purchased a power boat to move the houseboat around. Joel Spivey’s memoir said that when the family stopped visiting the Eastern Shore the houseboat became a backyard guest house at their home!

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Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Saint Michaels High School Takes to the Field

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Saint Michaels High School was a soccer powerhouse in the mid/ late 1970’s and won several State Championships. The coach was the late Denver Leach. This picture is of the team’s trophy presentation after winning the 1975 Maryland State Soccer Championship! A special thanks to Elizabeth Swaine for sharing this picture and the facts about their record. Elizabeth also shared that there were two students from Belgium at that time that added greatly to the team’s victories. Do you have memories of those great soccer years at SMHS??

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Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Meet Me at the Federal Ball Park

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The professional baseball season for 2023 is winding down and the Baltimore Orioles won 100 games this year!! The Eastern Shore Baseball League was formed in 1922 and the pictured Easton, Maryland Federal Ball Park opened for the 1924 season on May 24, 1924. Facts: milb.com. Federal Ball Park was located between Federal and Bay Streets. Great Talbot Historical Society H. Robins Hollyday Collection photo with the parking lot full of c 1930’s or 1940’s ? automobiles!

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Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Catching a Flight at Easton Airport

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Do you remember this Easton Airport / Newnam Field Terminal? The photo was taken right before the building was demolished in 2002? This Airport Terminal was built as an auxiliary airfield by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. After World War II, it was turned over to the town of Easton and became Easton Municipal Airport. In May 1993 the Talbot County Council renamed it Easton Airport/ Newnam Field to honor William S. D. Newnam ( 1916-1991), who had served the County and the Airport for forty years! Facts: msa.maryland.gov . Photo from the Talbot Historical Society’s Collections.

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Local Author Unearths Maryland Civil War History

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Fake news, election fraud and the arrest of political opponents, When Democracy Fell is an exhaustively researched and extremely well documented account of the constitutional crisis faced by Maryland’s government and citizens during the early years of the Civil War.  This book shatters the long-believed myth that the Maryland Legislature and the government of Baltimore were imprisoned to prevent Maryland from seceding from the Union and provides overwhelming evidence that the imprisonments were to silence their dissent, to prevent the Maryland Legislature from taking their protests directly to the American public, and to take control and ensure the outcome of the upcoming elections in Maryland. 

When Democracy Fell unearths never before reported and long suppressed historical information pertaining to the significant events during the U.S. Civil War that shaped both Maryland and our Nation’s history.  The author, Paul Callahan, a Talbot County native, knew he had to write this book when he came across historical newspaper accounts in the papers of Europe that detailed how General Tench Tilghman of Oxford Maryland was to lead an army of rebels in an attack against the Capital and to support the Legislature’s secession from the Union.  Additional research uncovered a series of internationally disseminated articles, originated in Washington, that were assessed as “fake news” meant to inflame the passions of the North and to provide the public an acceptable reason to arrest the Maryland Legislature. 

When Democracy Fell unearths the actual motivation behind the arrest and imprisonment of Talbot County Judge Richard Bennett Carmichael along with Talbot’s District Attorney J.C.W. Powell.  This history took a completely unexpected twist in discovering the involvement of a powerful politician with a well-established family name in Talbot County. 

From the Union’s attack plan against Baltimore City, through the elections of 1863 and everything in between, When Democracy Fell is the Nation’s first book which comprehensively covers the constitutional crisis experienced in Maryland during the Civil War. 

A book lecture sponsored by the Talbot Historical Society will be held on Wednesday October 4, at 1 pm, please visit www.talbothistory.org for additional information.  Vintage Books located directly across from the courthouse in Easton will host a book signing on October 7 from 11 am to 4 pm.  For more information on this interesting new book and where to purchase, please visit www.whendemocracyfell.com.

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