The Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church South was built on the North East corner of Goldsborough and Harrison Streets in Easton, Maryland between 1875-1876! It was such an interesting looking church and was later demolished in the 1950’s when St. Mark’s United Methodist Church was built to unite all of Easton’s Methodist churches! Do you have memories of this church?

Photo from the Talbot Historical Society’s Laird Wise Collection. Contact: Cathy Hill [email protected] to share your old photos and purchase our collections photos. Comment, Like our page and join the Talbot Historical Society!

Maybe they are headed out for a July 4th party cruise? This Talbot Historical Society found photo location features men and ladies who are not identified, but the apparel suggests that the picture was taken in the late 1800s or early 1900s. Do you recognize any of the buildings in the background?

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A special thanks to Elizabeth Swaine for sharing this June 6, 1942 photo of her father John Swaine Jr. and her grandfather John Swaine Sr. taking up hay on the Swaine farm in Royal Oak, Maryland! Farming techniques have certainly changed since then! That is quite an interesting-looking piece of equipment!

Photo from the Elizabeth Swaine Collection at the Talbot Historical Society. Contact: Cathy Hill [email protected] to share your old photos and purchase our collections photos. Comment, Like our page and join the Talbot Historical Society!

It’s that end of the school time of the year!! Summertime has arrived and this group of children were having fun attending a Farm Bureau Picnic at an unknown location in 1951! Can you help identify any of these children? Or the location? Photo from the Talbot Historical Society’s Laird Wise Collection.

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This part of Easton, Maryland looked so different in 1969!! There were so many wide open spaces back then!! Saints Peter and Paul Elementary and High School were located on the corner of High Street and Choptank Ave. and now it’s just the Elementary School since the new church and Saints Peter and Paul High School complex have been built at the south end of Easton. The motel with the pool off of High Street has been replaced by the Hampton Inn. Wasn’t there a restaurant somewhere near the north end of that motel? There was no Idlewild Avenue or Bayleigh Chase at that time!! Dutchman’s Lane is in the far distance to the south!!

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There are a few pictures of this plant in the Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection of photographs from the 1920’s through the 1960’s. Though the location was not identified this appears to be the Hillsboro and Queen Anne, Maryland area on Tuckahoe Creek? Can you share any history about this massive business? What is in this location today?

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Do you have any memories of the very popular Adkins building supply store that was off of Brookletts and East Avenues in Easton, Maryland ? Maybe you remember what year it closed? Are any of the many buildings that were part of that business still being used?

Photo from the Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection. Contact: Cathy Hill [email protected] to share your old photos and purchase our collections photos. Comment, Like our page and join the Talbot Historical Society’s!

Saint Aubins, 105 Willis Avenue, Easton, MD. Have you ever driven back in the neighborhood across the street from the 7/11 on North Washington St. and seen this lovely home?? “The 1803 farm was founded by Nicholas Hammond, a state senator and the first president of the Farmers Bank of Maryland, Eastern Shore branch, who named it after his ancestral home on the Isle of Jersey.” Facts: “Where Land and Water Intertwine” by Christopher Weeks.

Photo from the H. Robins Hollyday Collection at THS. Contact: Cathy Hill [email protected] to share your old photos. Comment, Like our page and join THS

The question is what were a group of men and seven donkeys doing on the baseball field at Easton, Maryland’s Federal Park? Possibly Donkey Baseball?? Donkey Baseball gained popularity during the Depression years in the mid-1930’s. The players, except for the pitcher and the batter, rode donkeys. The fielders often had to dismount to catch the ball and then remount to throw it! Have you heard stories that you can share proving donkey baseball was played in Easton? Can you identify any of these men? Seven of the men have the same hats on. Perhaps they belonged to the same organization in Talbot County?

Photo from the Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection. Contact: Cathy Hill [email protected] to share your old photos and purchase our Collections photos. Comment, Like our page and join the Talbot Historical Society!