This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Caroline County and its people.

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1920.

The History

of

Caroline County,

Maryland

From its Beginning

Material Largely Contributed by the teachers and Children of the County

Revised and Supplemented by

Laura C. Cochrane

D.L. Clark

Mrs. Wilsie S. Gibson

A.  May Thompson

M.Y. Adstolen

Of the Caroline County Schools

By T. H. S. Boyd,

1920

Printed By

The J. W. Stowell Printing Company

Federalsburg, MD

348 pages on 1 CD

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.

This book on CD is SEARCHABLE * 

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 - Formation of Caroline County
Chapter 2 - Organization of the County
Chapter 3 - Caroline County Courts
Chapter 4 - The Hundred - Election Districts
Chapter 5 - Land Grants
Chapter 6 - The Mason and Dixon Line
Chapter 7 - Roads, Ferries, Bridges, Fences and Gates
Chapter 8 - Indians of the Eastern Shore
Chapter 9 - When Indians Lived in Our Land
Chapter 10 - Foreword to the Trial of Poh Poh Caquis
Chapter 11 - Erection of the Court House and Jail
Chapter 12 - Revolutionary Period
Chapter 13 - Caroline's Military Activities (Contains Rooster of First Caroline Company of the Eastern Shore Battalion during the Revolutionary War)
Chapter 14 - Colonel William Richardson
Chapter 15 - Colonel William Whiteley
Chapter 16 - Matthew Driver
Chapter 17 - The Potters of Potters Landing
Chapter 18 - Life in Caroline Following the Revolution
Chapter 19 - Early Brick Dwellings in Caroline
Chapter 20 - The Hughletts
Chapter 21 - William Frazier - Methodist Organizer
Chapter 22 - Early Churches and Societies
Chapter 23 - Caroline County Almshouses
Chapter 24 - When Tobacco was King
Chapter 25 - The Duel Between Dickinson and Jackson
Chapter 26 - War of 1812 (Contains Roster Caroline’s 19^th Regiment)
Chapter 27 - Captain Joseph Richardson
Chapter 28 - Thomas Culbreth
Chapter 29 - Early Postal Service
Chapter 30 - The Plantation
Chapter 31 - Slavery
Chapter 32 - An Old Time Maryland School (1838)
Chapter 33 - The Public Schools
Chapter 34 - Early Factories
Chapter 35 - The Civil War (Contains Roster of Soldiers from Caroline County)
Chapter 36 - Marydel Vicinity
Chapter 37 - Henderson Locality
Chapter 38 - Goldsboro (Old Town)
Chapter 39 - Moore's
Chapter 40 - Greensboro (Choptank Bridge)
Chapter 41 - Burrsville (Punch Hall, Union Corner)
Chapter 42 - Denton (Pig Point, Edenton)
Chapter 43 - Harmony (Fowling Creek)
Chapter 44 - Preston (Snow Hill)
Chapter 45 - Bethlehem
Chapter 46 - Federalsburg (North West Fork Bridge)
Chapter 47 - Concord
Chapter 48 - Smithville and Community
Chapter 49 - Hillsboro (Tuckahoe Bridge)
Chapter 50 - Ridgely
Chapter 51 - Spanish American War
Chapter 52 - County Newspapers
Chapter 53 - The World War (Includes Complete List of Inducted and Enlisted men of Caroline County plus those that made the Supreme Sacrifice in WWI)
Chapter 54 - The Floods of 1919