You searched for City|State: salisbury, md
Page 3 of 5 — Showing results 21 to 30 of 45
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQNF_the-peculiar-institution-at-pemberton-plantation_Salisbury-MD.html
Like most 18th-century plantations in the Chesapeake region, Pemberton Hall Plantation depended on slave labor. Between 1700 and 1740, some 54,000 slaves were brought to the Chesapeake region. When Isaac Handy died in 1762, records show that he ow…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQNE_a-show-of-wealth_Salisbury-MD.html
Isaac Handy designed Pemberton Hall to impress his neighbors. At the time, over 90 percent of people in the Chesapeake region lived in small, low, clapboard houses, about half the size of the Great Room of Pemberton Hall. Building a brick, gambrel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQND_an-apple-a-day_Salisbury-MD.html
The apple trees you see here are a reminder that fruit orchards were an essential part of Chesapeake Bay plantation life in the 18th century. Apples, peaches, and pears were on the daily menu for plantation residents. The abundant fruit was also u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQNC_a-water-connection_Salisbury-MD.html
Beneath these waters lie the buried timbers of the oldest documented wharf of its kind in the United States. The timbers date back to 1746 when Colonel Isaac Handy built a 200-food bulkhead wharf here at Mulberry Landing. Colonel Handy had a perso…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQNB_the-original-residents_Salisbury-MD.html
For millennia before Europeans arrived, the Chesapeake region was home to Native Americans and to a rich diversity of wildlife. Black bears and wolves roamed the woods while beaver, muskrat and otters foraged the wetlands. Schools of sturgeon, per…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQNA_wicomico-wetlands_Salisbury-MD.html
Wetlands, interspersed with sections of high ground, mark the banks of the Wicomico River as it flows into Chesapeake Bay. These wetlands are vital to the ecosystem, providing habitat for a host of organisms. Wetlands help to filter pollutants fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQN9_natures-pasture_Salisbury-MD.html
If you had stood here 250 years ago, you would likely have seen cattle grazing in the tidal marshlands. The area between the mainland and Bell Island was known as "Handy's Meadow." Following Colonel Handy's death in 1762, his three sons continued …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQN8_the-road-to-salisbury-town_Salisbury-MD.html
This road connected Pemberton Hall Plantation to two places of interest to Colonel Isaac Handy. It led to Handy Hall, the neighboring plantation which Isaac gave to his son George in 1750, and to Salisbury Town, which Colonel Handy helped to estab…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQN6_a-drop-to-drink_Salisbury-MD.html
In the colonial period, the safety of drinking water was uncertain, so people drank cider, wine, and distilled spirits instead. Each plantation made its own beverages. A cider press extracted juice from fruit. The cider could be consumed as is or …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQLP_wicomico-county-war-memorial_Salisbury-MD.html
In honor of all those from Wicomico County who lost their lives in the service of their country.