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Photograph of two men duck hunting on the Nanticoke River

Photograph of a muskrat trapper with his catch on a wharf

Muskrat season opens the first of January. This trapper, Stanley Bennett of Mardela, works the marsh of the Nanticoke River. Trapping muskrats is dangerous business - it is easy to step in an unseen hole. Despite this hazard, most trappers work…

Hoopers Island Map, Illustrated Atlas of Talbot and Dorchester Counties, Maryland, Lake Griffing and Stevenson, 1877, marked with “x” to show duck blinds on the shoreline.

Twenty-eight fugitives escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland

Portrait of Harriet Tubman

Indentured Servant contract for the colony of Maryland, June 5, 1683

Deed, J. William Somers Venables to John Nelms -1775- Somerset County, MD

Map of Virginia