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- Author: Walter E Arps
- Publisher: Heritage Books
- ISBN-10: 0788435019
- ISBN-13: 9780788435010
- Format: 21.6 x 27.9 x 0.2 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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Genealogical records are hard to find in this Dorchester County town on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, thanks to a mid-nineteenth century courthouse fire. This researcher was able to find microfilm copies of a few disparate issues of the local newspaper, thus filling in some of the gaps. These precious newspapers also shed a bright beam of light on nineteenth-century Dorchester County life: its economic ups and downs, politics, Methodism, dependence on the steamboat, and cultural aspirations.
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- Author: Walter E Arps
- Publisher: Heritage Books
- ISBN-10: 0788435019
- ISBN-13: 9780788435010
- Format: 21.6 x 27.9 x 0.2 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
Genealogical records are hard to find in this Dorchester County town on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, thanks to a mid-nineteenth century courthouse fire. This researcher was able to find microfilm copies of a few disparate issues of the local newspaper, thus filling in some of the gaps. These precious newspapers also shed a bright beam of light on nineteenth-century Dorchester County life: its economic ups and downs, politics, Methodism, dependence on the steamboat, and cultural aspirations.
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