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    Easton
    Easton
    Easton
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    Easton

    By Mindie Burgoyne

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    Named Easton in 1788, the principal town on Maryland s Eastern Shore grew to be its center of government and commerce. These images chart Easton s transformation into Maryland s eastern hub for the arts, culture, and entertainment, revealing the town s treasure trove of Victorian and Colonial buildings, historic streetscapes, and the oldest Quaker meetinghouse in the United States.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateNov 21, 2007
    ISBN9781439619452
    Easton
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    Mindie Burgoyne

    Mindie Burgoyne is a travel writer and tour operator. She owns Chesapeake Ghost Walks, on the Eastern Shore, and Thin Places Mystical Tours focused on spiritual travel to Ireland. She is also the author of Haunted Eastern Shore and Haunted Ocean City and Berlin. Her work has been featured in many media platforms including the Baltimore Sun, CBS News and the National Geographic Television Network.

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      Easton - Mindie Burgoyne

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      INTRODUCTION

      Easton is currently the second largest town in the eight counties that comprise Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Located in the center of eastern Maryland, Easton is the Shore’s hub for culture and the arts, and it continues to thrive as a commercial center. There are 49 incorporated towns on the Eastern Shore, and most have quaint town centers that reveal residents’ enthusiasm for historic preservation. But those towns pale in comparison to Easton’s size and density of streets—both commercial and residential—that are lined with restored historic properties, projecting an authentic view of a thriving colonial town.

      Easton, now a county seat, lies in the center of Talbot County. Recently, a fellow Maryland enthusiast quizzed me as to why county seats were located in the center of most counties. His explanation was that the center of the county was often one-day’s horse ride, making it centrally convenient. While practical, being centrally located geographically was only part of the reason Easton became the county seat, and it was also the reason the town was so slow to grow at first.

      On the Eastern Shore, colonial Marylanders didn’t travel by horse; they traveled by boat, as waterways snake through the region, creating over 3,000 miles of shoreline. Seven of the eight county seats were assigned at active ports of call, such as Cambridge, Salisbury, and Snow Hill. Easton’s circumstances of assignment were a bit different. Though the town rests on the northern branch of the Tred Avon River, that location wasn’t a busy port at the time, and there were much larger, more active ports, including Oxford, Dover, andYork. The Easton location was chosen as a compromise. It was central, on a waterway, and not a player in the heated controversy about which town should be the county seat.

      Prior to 1680, general court on the Eastern Shore was held in private homes. In 1680, the first courthouse was built in Talbot County in the town ofYork, located near Skipton. In 1707, the county boundaries were redrawn and the York location became too far removed from the general population. The court relocated to the thriving town of Oxford, which was centrally located to most of Talbot County when traveling by boat. Oxford continued to act as the county seat with court held in private homes until 1710 when the Maryland General Assembly decided to purchase land in central Talbot County, known as Pitte his Bridge, and authorized the building of a

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