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Initially known as Great Choptank Island, the island became identified with a series of local families. It was owned by Matthew Tilghman's family from 1752 and has been known as Tilghman Island ever since. During the War of 1812 the island was briefly occupied by the British, who obtained provisions for their military forces. The community of ...
These Islands are relatively permanent, although some are disappearing on the scale of a few centuries, like Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. There are also a number of unnamed islands in Maryland, many of which are very temporary in nature, lasting only a few years or decades, both in the tidal environment and also in Maryland's larger ...
The Tilghman Watermen's Museum (established 2008) [1] records the maritime traditions of the people of Tilghman Island and the unique way of life of the watermen who lived on the island. It is located on Tilghman Island, Talbot County, Maryland, United States. [2] Originally located in an old barbershop at 5778 Tilghman Island Road, [1] the ...
The Rebecca T. Ruark is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack built at Taylor's Island, Maryland. She is homeported at Tilghman Island, Maryland. Built in 1896, she is the oldest surviving skipjack in the Chesapeake Bay fleet. [3] She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003. [2]
Tilghman Island, Maryland MD 33 at Knapps Narrow Bridge, northwest side 38°43′16.06″N 76°19′52.41″W / 38.7211278°N 76.3312250°W / 38.7211278; -76.3312250 ( Chesapeake Bay Skipjack
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 ...
The Sharps Island Light is the third lighthouse to stand nearly 3 miles (5 km) south-southwest from the southern end of Tilghman Island in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. [2] The structure is best known today for evoking the Leaning Tower of Pisa , a condition caused by an ice floe in 1977.
The Paw Paw Cove Site is an archaeological site on the coast of Talbot County, Maryland.The site, first identified in 1979, is a complex of three locations on 500 metres (1,600 ft) of shoreline on Chesapeake Bay, at which stone artifacts with an estimated date of 11,500 to 10,500 BCE have been found.