Thank you Michael Henry for sharing this special 1922 family wheat harvesting photo taken at the Willis family Clora Dorsey Farm on Island Creek Neck near Trappe, Maryland. The picture is of the farm machinery being set into place for the harvest. Far left is Michael Henry’s great great grandfather Charles F. Willis, Sr. with his wife Laura Woodland Ross Willis and daughter Laura Catherine Willis!

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This photo is from the Talbot Historical Society’s 1907-1930 Starr Family photo album. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Starr purchased Hope House near Tunis Mills, Maryland in 1907 and remodeled the home. The pictured large sailing craft may have been on the Miles River near Hope House. The Starr’s daughter Ruth Starr Rose was a famous artist!

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Alumni of Oxford High School in Oxford, Maryland are holding cards that give the year that they graduated! Can you identify any of these Oxford High School reunion attendees? Photo from the Talbot Historical Society Laird Wise Collection.

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Research done in the Sept. 1925 and Nov. 1926 issues of “Motor Boating” Magazine show pictures of this famous 38 foot Hydroplane racing boat. Yankee Doodle was designed by John L. Hacker, owned by H. Alex Johnson and was powered with 3,000 h. p.! She could go 100 miles per hour!! The “Motor Boating” Magazine articles were about the Yankee Doodle racing in races on Manhasset Bay Long Island Sound in 1925 and at the Corinthian Yacht Club of Washington D. C. In 1926! This photo location is unidentified. The photo is from the Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection.

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Maple Hall was a Claiborne, Maryland inn originally built in the 1860’s as a farmhouse. John Cockey bought it and used the 10,000 square foot family home and boarding house to suit the needs of the Claiborne railroad boom era. The ferry service between the Western Shore and Claiborne brought vacationers to the resort community and the railroad service enabled some of them to continue on to the ocean resorts! Maple Hall was demolished in 2010. Do you have any memories of Maple Hall? Facts: claibornemd.org. Photo from Talbot Historical Society’s Laird Wise Collection.

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The first Easton, Md. baseball game was played on September 6, 1867! According to the “ Easton Album” by Norman Harrington the score was the Trappe Choptanks 85 and the Easton Fair Plays 47! Pictured is Easton’s Federal Park baseball field located between Federal and Bay Streets! Photo from the Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection.

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Can you help us identify the location of this beautiful property? The race track is so large and the many buildings and fields appear to be perfectly cared for! This Talbot Historical Society H. Robins Hollyday photo may have been taken in the 1930’s or 1940’s.

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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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Love this view of North Washington Street Easton, Maryland! Maybe the cars date this as the late 1950s? The visible A & P store is now the Good Will Super Store. Three of the four mid nineteenth century Langsdale Houses are visible on the right. The third one from the right is the only one remaining in that location. Two of the remaining three were moved to Bay Street and the center visible Langsdale House was demolished to make room for the present Town Parking Lot entrance! Photo from the Talbot Historical Society’s H. Robins Hollyday Collection.

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Have you noticed this c1888 fog bell tower at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland? This tower was originally built at Point Lookout where the Potomac River meets the Chesapeake Bay. Bell towers were placed next to Lighthouses and this tower’s 1,100 pound bell alerted sailors when fog was too thick to view the light! In 1965 the Coast Guard closed the Lighthouse and the fog bell tower at Point Lookout and in 1968 it was moved and became a permanent exhibit at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. Facts: CBMM.org. Photo of the bell tower’s installation at CBMM from the Talbot Historical Society’s Charles C. Harris Collection.

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