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Green Hill Methodist Church CemeteryLocated on Senkbeil Road, which jogs off of and back into the northwest side of Whitehaven Road and north side of Green Hill Creek (between Head Of The Creek Rd. and Nebo Rd.) There is no church building in the area, but Jacobs' book identifies it as Green Hill Methodist Church cemetery. This photo was taken during CemTrek 2002. Also has been identified as the Taylor Family Burying Ground.
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Hebron - Hauling Logs in about 1900
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Hebron - Old Spring Hill ChurchAlso known as St. Paul's Episcopal Church, this historic Episcopal church on Rt 50 near Hebron was built in 1773 and was a chapel of ease for Stepney Parish. Fire destroyed the wooden church on July 22, 2014, months after it celebrated its 240th anniversary. Nearly 100 firefighters from numerous fire departments, including Wicomico and Sussex Counties, responded to the fire. This photo is from the U.S. HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey).
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Hebron - St. Paul's Methodist Church, about 1940
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Hebron - Walnut Street about 1900
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Jacksonville (presently part of Crisfield) - Maryland State Bounty Claim of Col Isaac H. Handy of the U.S. Colored Troops, Civil WarMaryland Civil War Bounty Papers of Corporal Isaac H. Handy, 1866 — State bounty claim and supporting certification papers for Isaac H. Handy, Company K, 9th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops, dated December 18, 1866. The document appears to identify Jacksonville, Somerset County, Maryland, and was executed shortly after Handy completed three years of Civil War service.
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Manokin - Elizabeth Anne Stewart c. 1805 portraitElizabeth Anne Stewart was born in Somerset County, MD in 1790. She married into the prominent Sudler family of Somerset County, becoming the wife of Tubman Waters "Tubby" Sudler on November 5, 1817. She died in 1863, and was buried at the family's estate, Sudler's Conclusion on Back Creek.
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Manokin - Sudler's ConclusionLocated on Hood Road north of Route 361, the original Flemish-bond brick portion of the structure was built around 1725. The property, then called "Barnaby's Lott" was purchased by Thomas Seon in 1747. His grandson, Thomas Seon Sudler had the property and surrounding property resurveyed as Sudler's Conclusion in 1789. The 2-story clapboard portion was added by a later owner about 1840.
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Manokin - Sudler's ConclusionSudler’s Conclusion, near Manokin in Somerset County, is one of the county’s notable surviving early houses. The original Flemish-bond brick section dates to the early 18th century, with a frame addition added about 1840. Long associated with the Sudler family, the property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is an important example of early Somerset County architecture.
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Mardela SpringsBoy fishing in Barren Creek
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Mardela Springs - Main Street, 1906
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Ocean City - Boardwalk and Beach from the Atlantic Hotel
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Ocean City - Dolle's Candyland Boardwalk at Wicomico Street, near the pier in Ocean City, about 1920
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Ocean City - Interior of the Pier Ball Room
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Ocean City - Life Saving Crew (Surfmen) in Surf Boat
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Ocean City - Lifesaving Station, 1915Captain Carson and his Surfmen
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Ocean City - Plimhimmon Hotel,Ocean City, 1922
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Ocean City - Seaside HotelThis hotel, located on Wicomico Street at Baltimore Avenue, was built in 1876 and destroyed in a 1925 fire that also consumed the original pier building, the original Atlantic Hotel, and several blocks of the boardwalk.
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Ocean City - St. Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic Church
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Ocean City - The Ocean Promenade Looking South from the New Atlantic Casino
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Ocean City - U.S. Lifesaving Station
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Ocean City - Windsor Resortprecursor to Trimper's in Ocean City
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Ocean City: Historic, hand-carved 1912 Herschell-Spillman menagerie carousel located at Trimper Rides on the boardwalk
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Ocean City: The Atlantic HotelOpening July 4, 1875, the Atlantic Hotel on the Boardwalk between Wicomico and Somerset Streets was originally owned by the Atlantic Hotel Company until it was purchased 15 years later by the Sinepuxent Beach Company and finally purchased by Dr. Charles W. Purnell in 1923. It is still family owned and operated today by the Purnell family.
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Old Somerset Hundredsincluding the areas of present-day Wicomico, Somerset, and Worcester Counties
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Oriole - AlmodingtonAlmodington stands out as one of the most elaborate plantation houses erected in Somerset County during the mid eighteenth century. The original 1000-acre tract of Almodington, known to the Indians as Portoback, was officially surveyed for John Elzey on November 10, 1663 on the north side of the Manokin River. Almodington was probably built by his son, Arnold, or Arnold's son John in the 1720s or 1730s.
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Oriole Street Scene
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Parsonsburg - Methodist Camp MeetingA typical camp meeting lasted 8-10 days, sometimes longer. In early camp meetings, families would pitch a tent on the grounds and attend preaching, Bible studies, and class meetings throughout the day, and sometimes long into the night. Later, "tents" were permanent wooden structures.
As the nineteenth century wore on, camp meetings gradually fell into disuse. After the Civil War, they enjoyed a resurgence. This photo shows the Parsonsburg Camp Meeting in that time period.
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Pittsville Central School, Pittsville about 1905Built in 1905. Educated elementary through high school aged children until 1936, when a new school was built.
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Pocomoke City - Front and Market Streets
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Pocomoke City - View Along the Pocomoke River
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Pocomoke City, 1906
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Princess Anne - 1940s street scene in front of the Washington Hotel
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Princess Anne - Beckford Avenue
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Princess Anne - Beckford Avenue South
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Princess Anne - Beechwood, ancestral home of the Waters family
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Princess Anne - FSA ClientRoger Spence, a client of the Farm Service Agency (FSA), and three of his sons in their home about two miles outside of Princess Anne. Spence's home had burned down and his family were living in a makeshift shack. The FSA was a New Deal program established in 1935 to help poor farming families in a number of ways.
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Princess Anne - Gentleman with an ox cart, 1908
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Princess Anne - J. T. Taylor on his buggy with horses Rock and RyeRock and rye was a liqueur made by combining rock candy and rye whiskey.
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Princess Anne - Manokin Presbyterian ChurchThe Manokin Presbyterian Church in Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland, is one of the oldest Presbyterian churches in America, having existed continuously as a congregation for more than three hundred years on or near the same plot of ground. The walls of the main section were built in 1765, and the tower was added in 1888. Its location is about fifty to seventy-five yards north of the stream which was once the navigable Manokin River. The church took its name from that of the river.
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Princess Anne - Manokin Presbyterian Church
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Princess Anne - Memorial Bridge, built 1921
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