Thanks to Genevieve Townsend we have this wonderful photo. Does anyone remember when bananas were a treat? “Steamboat “Dorchester” that stopped at wharf in Windy Hill, MD to pick up apples and peaches from local orchards. Remember my grandmother bought bananas when the boat came down.

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The Wye Oak at Wye Mills, Maryland was believed to have germinated in the 1500’s! The Wye Oak held the title of the largest white oak in the United States since the American Forestry Association began it’s contest in 1940! On June 6, 2002 the Wye Oak’s massive trunk collapsed during a severe thunderstorm! Facts: dnr.Maryland.gov. This Talbot Historical Society Collection photo was taken shortly after it had fallen!

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The Chesapeake Bay Ferries ran from 1919 to 1952! This Talbot Historical Society H. Robins Hollyday Collection photo is of a ferry arriving at the dock in Claiborne, Maryland with a Mom and two children watching! Did you ever ride on one of the Chesapeake Bay Ferries? Contact:

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Hard to believe this Ford automobile and tractor Dealership was on Dover Street in Easton, Maryland where Hill’s Drug Store recently was! Now the building is being renovated by Shore United Bank. This July 5, 1920 Talbot Historical Society photo shows a Fordson tractor in the middle of the front room and shelves filled with parts. The Fordson Tractor was very successful in North America and Europe from 1917 to 1928 when Ford of the U. S. left the tractor business. The first genuine Ford tractor was called Fordson because there was also a Ford Tractor Company at that time that was not related to Henry Ford! Facts:”Ford N-series tractor” Wikipedia.

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The Judith Goldsborough Oates photo Collection is from a c.1910-1923 Goldsborough Photograph album that was donated in 2004 to the Talbot Historical Society. The captions in the album identify this photo as being taken near 203 Dover Street in Easton, Maryland which is catty-corner to Easton’s present Post Office. It’s amazing to only see a horse named “Lulu” and a buggy on the streets of Easton! Judith and David are perfectly dressed for a ride!

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This Talbot Historical Society Laird Wise Collection photo is of the Tidewater Motor Company on Goldsborough Street Easton, Maryland. Maybe you can identify the year and makes of the automobiles that were sold there? Do you have any memories of this dealership? The building is now Easton Cycle and Sport where you can purchase Bicycles, kayaks, and other sporting goods!

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There is more to this idyllic dairy farm scene than appears! Maryland Governor William Preston Lane, Jr. was responsible for 1947 legislation authorizing the building of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and with that project came a $175 million plus bridge-highway bond package. In 1953 this beautiful Planson family farm near Chapel Road Easton, Maryland was divided forever by the new Route 50 dual highway headed to Ocean City, Maryland! Facts: “ Easton Album” 1986. Photo from the Talbot Historical Society’s Laird Wise Collection.

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What an amazing 1929 aerial view of Easton, Maryland looking north from Idlewild Park and the Five Corners area of town! Note the dirt streets! The oval tree line lower right shows where the Idlewild Fairgrounds Racetrack used to be! Idlewild Easton High School opened in 1929 and you can see the new small shrubs and tree plantings around the school. To the right you can see where the Claiborne, Maryland to Ocean City, Maryland line and the Clayton, Delaware to Oxford, Maryland train lines intersected! To the left note the way the old Easton Emergency Hospital looked before it’s many additions! Professional Photographer H. Robins Hollyday and his aviator friend Malcolm Hathaway left Talbot County a wonderful documentation of our area in the late 1920’s!

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This Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection Easton, Maryland Easton Point photo was recently scanned in from a group of 1929-1935 8”x6” glass plate negatives!! So many things have changed in this area, many houses have disappeared! Love the schooner on the left! The Steamboat wharf on the dock at the end of Port Street was very active with Steamboat travel from the 1820’s to the 1920’s! Facts: “ Easton Album” by Norman Harrington 1986.

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