All Our Stories
Nettie Dean Carter – Ahead of Her Time
In an unusual twist of fate, the Ridgely native – and prominent teacher, suffragette, and businesswoman – received more attention from the Baltimore press than from local media during her remarkable lifetime.
Historic black schools since 1870. Eight are still standing.
This month, we complete our four-year survey of historic schools in Caroline County, 1820-1960.
We re-discovered 23 segregated black schools built since the 1870s.
Eight black schools are still there.
Stand in the Place.
Leverton the Quaker and Hubbard the free black were neighbors. And secret agents.
Find our how Hubbard and Leverton with worked with Harriet Tubman and others to move freedom seekers through Caroline County to safety
The Death of 2LT Louise Hollister “Somewhere in the Pacific”
Louise Hollister, Maryland School of Nursing, Class of 1939. Native of Hillsboro.
2LT Louise A. Hollister, RN, Army Nurse Corps, 1942-1943, was Maryland’s only Army Nurse casualty in WWII.
So Long, Southern States
Setting Sail from Denton
I know your name but can’t recall where we met.
“Tuckahoe” by Robert Durwood Madison
In observance of Black History Month, we’re publishing Tuckahoe, a cycle of poems which beckon us to learn more about Frederick Douglass’s life and times – and to Stand in the Place.
The town that sprawls across 3 counties, 2 states, and 3 centuries
1670 map of the Choptank – How good was it?
I knew Flora Price when she lived in Denton. But where is she now?
Where the Dead Rise Up
You might not see them from the road. You have to stop and get out. Walk around for a closer look. Crypts floating to the surface.
This is St. Paul AME Church. It’s one of dozens of segregated black churches that organized in Caroline County and throughout the Eastern Shore of Maryland after 1865.