A special thanks to Dwight Shores for emailing the Talbot Historical Society this image this past year. Dwight’s Great Uncle Marion Buck Sharp owned the original Oak Hill Diner pictured, which was located on Creamery Lane and North Washington Street in the 1940’s! Dwight found this picture in his Mother’s basement! Besides Dwight’s Great Uncle, his Father Jack Shores, Mother Peggy Mullikin Shores, Grandmother Madge Mullikin, and his Aunt Dolly Mullikin Bramble all worked at the Oak Hill Diner. A second Oak Hill Diner was later on Dover Street near the railroad tracks.

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This beautiful fleet of mostly Skipjacks and maybe seven two-masted Bugeyes was dredging for oysters near Poplar Island c. 1930. Soon after the skipjack was introduced to the Chesapeake Bay in the 1890’s it became the preferred oyster dredge boat. It has been estimated nearly two thousand skipjacks were built to dredge for oysters from the Chesapeake Bay. The peake building years were from the 1890’s through the first decade of the 1900’s. Facts: “ Maryland Historical Trust.”

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!

Happy New Year’s Eve from the Talbot Historical Society! The pictured Talbot County Court House in Easton, Maryland was decorated for Christmas about 100 years ago and a light covering of snow makes this Talbot Historical Society Collection photo even more beautiful!

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Anyone remember the Bennett Motor Co. and the pictured Gulf Station? They have tentatively been identified as being on the Dover St. Talbot Lane block next to the Post Office in Easton, Md. Star Democrat research states that on Friday Oct. 21, 1938 J.N. Bennett accepted an award Dodge Automobile Co. gave to the Bennett Motor Co. for it’s efforts to ensure uninterrupted satisfactory performance of the motor vehicles sold to the public! Later Star Democrat articles state in 1949 William Henry Bennett was the general manager and that in 1950 James Bennett of Bennett Motor Company was the chairman of Easton’s National Automobile Dealer Week Committee. Does anyone know what happened to this successful Company?

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

This picture was added to the Talbot Historical Society photo Collections in 2010 and at that time there was no way of knowing the Hill’s Drug Store Cafe would be just a memory by 2025. There were many other Easton, Maryland pictures entered into our Collections at the same time. So grateful we have this photo of a past favorite lunch spot in town! This building is now part of Shore United Bank.

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The construction work on our new Easton Memorial Hospital on Longwoods Road , Easton, Maryland is impressive to see! This Talbot Historical Society H. Robins Hollyday Collection picture, taken in 1955, shows the construction of the south wing of the present Easton Memorial Hospital.

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This Talbot Historical Society H. Robins Hollyday Collection photo of a Boys’ Youth Football Team has no identifications in our Past Perfect database! Do you recognize anyone in this picture? The spires in the background may offer a clue as to the town where the picture was taken? The spire to the right does not exactly match the Talbot County Court House building’s spire?

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Can you help identify the location of this Talbot Historical Society H. Robins Hollyday Collection aerial photo? Seeing it has brought back 1950s memories for me of a fenced-in, large junk yard that was on Route 50 in Easton, Maryland, near the intersection of Matthewstown Road and Route 50. The Easton Diner and Fisher Auto Parts are now in that location? Perhaps the White House, located far to the right, is the one that is currently behind Garden Treasures? Is that Dairy Queen across Route 50 from the junk yard? Are there any auto salvage yards in Talbot County today?

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Locust Grove on Peachblossom Creek off of Baileys Neck Road was built c. 1865 by Frank Johnston, who married Anna Goldsborough. When comparing this photo with a more recent one of Locust Grove, the 1940s colonial design remodeling is visible. The first-floor porch was removed, as was the third-floor window and its small roof. A two-story Doric portico with four columns now covers the center of Locust Grove—facts: “ Where Land and Water Intertwine” by Christopher Weeks, 1984.

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