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Caroline County, Maryland From Its Beginning 1920 |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
 Title
Page |
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| Introduction |
xi |
| Sources
and References |
xiii |
| Formation
of Caroline County |
1 |
| Organization
of the County |
3 |
| Caroline
County Courts |
7 |
| The Hundred-Election
Districts |
18 |
| Land Grants |
23 |
| The Mason
and Dixon Line |
25 |
| Roads,
Ferries, Bridges, Fences and Gates |
28 |
| Indians
of the Eastern Shore |
35 |
| When Indians
Lived in Our Land |
41 |
| Foreword
to the Trial of Poh Poh Caquis |
45 |
| Erection
of the Court House and Jail |
50 |
| Revolutionary
Period |
54 |
| Caroline's
Military Activities |
70 |
| Colonel
William Richardson |
76 |
| Colonel
William Whiteley |
80 |
| Matthew
Driver |
82 |
| The Potters
of Potters Landing |
85 |
| Life in
Caroline Following the Revolution |
88 |
| Early Brick
Dwellings in Caroline |
94 |
| The Hughletts |
100 |
| William
Frazier - Methodist Organizer |
103 |
| Early Churches
and Societies |
105 |
| Caroline
County Alms Houses |
120 |
| When Tobacco
Was King |
123 |
| The Duel
Between Dickinson and Jackson |
126 |
| War of
1812 |
129 |
| Captain
Joseph Richardson |
133 |
| Thomas
Culbreth |
134 |
| Early Postal
Service |
137 |
| The Plantation |
139 |
| Slavery |
141 |
| An Old
Time Maryland School (1838) |
152 |
| The Public
Schools |
156 |
| Early Factories |
165 |
| The Civil
War |
168 |
| Marydel
Vicinity
The Marydel Duel, Edinburg |
175 |
| Henderson
Locality |
181 |
| Goldsboro
(Old Town)
Bridgetown, Bee Tree, Barcus |
187 |
| Moore's |
191 |
| Greensboro
(Choptank Bridge)
Whiteley's and Lowe's, Dr. Henry Rousset |
194 |
| Burrsville
(Punch Hall, Union Corner)
Central, Camp Grove |
218 |
| Denton
(Pig Point, Edenton)
Garey's Oaks, Willoughby's, Andersontown Lidens, Hickman, Williston, Williamson's The Bureau |
224 |
| Harmony
(Fowling Creek)
Grove, Laurel Grove, Friendship |
251 |
| Preston
(Snow Hill)
Linchester, Choptank |
256 |
| Bethlehem
Smithson, Hubbard's |
263 |
| Federalsburg
(North West Fork Bridge)
Hickory Hill, Nichols, Houston's Branch |
267 |
| Concord
Howard's, American Corners |
281 |
| Smithville
and Community
Chestnut Grove, Nabb's |
284 |
| Hillsboro
(Tuckahoe Bridge)
Thawley's, Tuckahoe Neck |
289 |
| Ridgely
Furman's Grove, The Plains |
299 |
| Spanish-American
War |
314 |
| County
Newspapers |
316 |
| The World
War |
320 |
| The Floods
of 1919 |
347 |
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