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Items associated with name 'Mardela Springs (Md.)'
Amy Crittenden papers
by Crittenden, Amy (1820 – 1991)
2 cartons, 1 oversize folder (1.75 linear feet)
The Amy Crittenden papers documents the research that contributed to Amy Crittenden’s graduate thesis at Salisbury University. Amy Crittenden’s thesis entitled Southern sympathies: The Civil War on Maryland's Eastern Shore focuses on the Civil War in Dorchester and Worcester counties. The collection includes drafts of the thesis, biographies of local figures, newspapers, as well as ledgers from local businesses. In addition research related to the Confederate and Union armies. The Amy Crittenden Papers dates from 1820-1991, with the bulk of the material dating to her graduate research from 1990-1991
Barren Creek Springs Cemetery Book CD
by Barren Creek Cemetery (1868 – 1917)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains a CD-Rom of scans of Barren Creek Cemetery Book from 1868 to 1917. The original book is at the Adkins Historical Museum Complex in Mardela Springs, MD. The book contains the deceased's birth and death dates and place of birth and in most cases, cause of death as well as which plot that are buried.
Bounds Family Papers
by Bounds, George A.; Bounds, George C. (1747 – 1941)
4 boxes (4 linear feet)
This collection contains records from the Bounds family from 1807 to the late 1930s. Series 1 through 4 contains postcards, newspapers, and other documents from different members of the Bounds family from the early 1800s into the twentieth century. The rest of the collection consists of documents of George Bounds, a businessman in the Hebron and Wicomico County area. These materials include real estate transactions, business correspondence, and other related records.
Brattan Taylor Store Ledger
by Unknown (circa 1850)
7 folders (0.07 linear feet)
This collection is comprised of an inventory and day books of the Brattan Taylor Store located in Mardela Springs, Maryland also known as Barren Creek. The store was owned by the Adkins family. The records document the Brattan-Taylor Village Store and are a series of ledgers which have been microfilmed and document the store's economic activities.
Double Mills records
by Bradley, Sylvia (1988 – 2007)
1 box, 1 oversize folder (0.5 linear feet)
Double Mills records document the restoration and preservation of the historic mill located near Mardela Springs, Md. The materials date from 1988-1996, with the bulk of the material dating from 1988-1991. The records encompass the restoration activities and efforts of Double Mills, Inc., and the Double Mills Preservation Foundation. These efforts are documented through correspondence, fundraising records, architectural drawings, maps, easement agreements, newspaper clippings, and photographs. In addition to the Double Mill records are photographs of the Rewastico Mill located in Hebron, Maryland.
Edgar Bennett Collection
by Bennett, Edgar (1867 – 1997)
31 boxes (27 linear feet)
The Edgar Bennett Collection documents the personal and professional lives of Edgar T. Bennett and his wife, Margaret Truitt Bennett. Personal items from the collection include land grants, photographs, and correspondence. The bulk of the collection revolves around Edgar Bennett's professional life, mainly consisting of records from the former Red Star Motor Coaches, Inc. bus company, and Bennett's political career in the Republican Party, Maryland State Senate and Maryland State Roads Commission.
Folklife Collection - The Oral History of the Mardela Indian Spring
by Salisbury University Students (2001)
1 folder (0.1 linear feet)
In 2001, former Salisbury University student Stacey Mercer collected folk material. Her collection explores the folklife of the town of Mardela Springs, MD, most notably the town's once famous mineral water spring. Included is her essay, two cassette tapes with interviews (logs included), newspaper clipping photocopies, and color photographs.
Fred Bradley Family papers
by Bradley Family (1892 – 1983)
1 folder (0.25 linear feet)
The papers of Fred T. Bradley document the activities of his family members, including his Uncle Milton Bradley’s active service in World War I, a copy of Florence Bradley’s passport, and his father’s obituary. Political memorabilia include a ticket stub from the 1912 Democratic National Convention and a fob from the McKinley-Hobart Presidential campaign of 1896. Also included is a copy of the Kangaroo Komplete Kompound brochure circa 1892, a type of farmer’s manure almanac.
M. Drue Gillis papers
by Gillis, M. Drue (1943, 1994)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
The M. Drue Gillis papers contains autobiographical information on the life of M. Drue Gillis. Gillis was from Mardela Springs, Maryland. Gillis was a pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber during World War II, and had been shot down over Stettin, Germany. He spent the remainder of the war as a Prisoner of War (POW) in German camp Stalag 17B in Austria. He documented his survival in the camp with multiple diary entries, included in the collection.
Mardela Springs Brochure collection
by Unknown (1944 – 1990)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains pamphlets on the history of Mardela Springs, Maryland, the Roelma Chapter #113, Emmanuel Methodist Church, and the Snethen Chapel.
Mardela Springs Mill Photograph collection
by Unknown (1910)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This collection contains two black and white photographs of a mill built in Mardela Springs around the turn of the 20th Century (circa 1910). A caption provided for the photo indicates the lumber mill belonged to David Henry Adkins.
Taylor Family Correspondence
by Taylor, John B.; Taylor, Lizzie M. (1900 – 1937)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
Taylor Family Correspondence contains letters from both Lizzie M. Taylor, and John B. Taylor from 1900 to 1937. The subjects of the letters include Lizzie Taylor's career as an elementary teacher at the Savage school, an invitation to Myra Ann Bennett's wedding, property tax receipts from Salisbury, and a payment booklet from the Feldman Brothers located in Salisbury, Maryland. Also in the collection are postcards from Taylor's relatives, a newspaper clipping announcing the wedding of their daughter Kay Taylor, and photographs of Lizzie Taylor and unidentified family members.
Wilson Family House Photograph
by Unknown (1900s)
1 folder (0.01 linear feet)
This is a photograph of Margaret Virginia Bounds' house. On the back of the photograph it is written that the home was built in the late 18th or early 19th century and was known as the Thomas Wilson place until the Bounds family purchased it in the 1970s. It was located along route 50 east of Mardela Springs, Maryland.