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Talbot County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland.As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,526. [2] Its county seat is Easton. [3] The county was named for Lady Grace Talbot, the wife of Sir Robert Talbot, an Anglo-Irish statesman, and the sister of Lord Baltimore. [4]
Location of Talbot County in Maryland. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Talbot County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Talbot County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
This is a list of the Maryland state historical markers in Talbot County. This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Talbot County, Maryland by the Maryland Historical Trust (MHT). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the MHT's ...
Ratcliffe Manor is located in Talbot County's town of Easton, Maryland.The property is on a peninsula formed by the Tred Avon River and Dixon Creek. [1] [ Note 1] Henry Hollyday began accumulating materials for the construction of the Ratcliffe Manor house in 1755, and expected to start building in 1757. [3]
The history of Quakerism in Talbot County goes back as far as the earliest European settlements of the area in 1658 and 1659. By the early 1660s, at least four Friends meetings were in existence: Bayside, along the Chesapeake Bay; Choptank and Tuckahoe, along the rivers of those names; and Michael's River, along what is now known as the Miles River.
By 1669 one of the first houses was built for Innkeeper Francis Armstrong (see Talbot County Land Records, A 1, f. 10/11). [3] Oxford first appears on a map completed in 1670 and published in 1671. [4] In 1694, Oxford and a new town called Anne Arundel (now Annapolis) were
The Easton Historic District is a historic district that covers most of the core of the town of Easton, Maryland.The town is the county seat of Talbot County.The state of Maryland is nearly split by the Chesapeake Bay, and Easton is located on the east side of the bay that is known as Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Wye House is a historic residence and former headquarters of a historic plantation house northwest of Easton in rural Talbot County, Maryland. Built in 1781–1784, it is a high-quality and well-proportioned example of a wooden-frame Southern plantation house .