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Georgetown (Del.)

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The Year Smallpox Ruined Christmas in Sussex County, Delaware Way Back Machine

The Year Smallpox Ruined Christmas in Sussex County, Delaware

The people of Sussex County did not have a very merry Christmas in 1919. Their holidays that year were filled instead with fear, distrust, and contention, culminating in a near riot in mid-January at the historic town circle of Georgetown, the county seat. The story begins in early December when reports surfaced that a contagious infection had popped up near Millsboro. At first, everyone thought…
December 10, 2019
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“The most beautiful place on the Peninsula,” 1872 Quote of the DayWay Back Machine

“The most beautiful place on the Peninsula,” 1872

In an article for Scribner’s Monthly magazine, the 19th-century writer George Alfred Townsend shared his impressions after a bit of wandering around Maryland's Eastern Shore. The article included the description below of what it was like to come up the Choptank River into Cambridge, Md. in 1872, just a few short years after the Civil War. When you come to the part about the shady…
April 5, 2018