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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20QE_the-joshua-pruitt-house_Tangier-VA.html
The Joshua Pruitt House is one of the oldest on Tangier.
Joshua Pruitt (1866-1949) and his wife Amanda took in boarders, teachers, and held worship services in their front yard.
Pruitt traveled to Washington, DC, during the Great Depression,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20QD_tangier-history-museum-and-interpretive-cultural-center-thmicc_Tangier-VA.html
This is the site of the former Lewis Crockett Store. It is also the site where in 1936, the Goodyear Blimp arrived with provisions to feed the islanders, who had been frozen in for over two months during a record freeze.
The Visitors Center and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20QB_peter-crockett-store_Tangier-VA.html
The new house on the corner of Garman Road and Main Ridge is the site of the former Peter S. Crockett Store, later Daughtery & Ward, and then Haynie Grocery.
It had a two-story front porch and was featured in many old photographs.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20QA_gravestones_Tangier-VA.html
Many people ask about the gravestones in front yards. While not unique to Tangier Island and seen throughout the Eastern Shore of Virginia, these are more obvious on such a small island. A number of reasons have been given for these burial sites:
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20Q9_new-testament-congregation_Tangier-VA.html
The New Testament Congregation was dedicated on Easter Sunday, 1957, and occupies the same site used for the Chautauqua tent in the 1920's.
The New Testament Mission House was once the home of teacher Alfred Benson (1893-1963) who taught at the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20Q7_the-patrick-benson-house_Tangier-VA.html
Patrick Benson, a ship's captain from Dublin, Ireland, purchased this land in 1879. The middle section of house was completed in 1889. The front section with porch and back section with kitchen and outbuilding were added over the years, but comple…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20PZ_welcome-to-historic-tangier-island_Tangier-VA.html
For almost 250 years the people of Tangier have wrested a living and a lifestyle from the waters that surround them. Most of their days have been occupied with family, work, church, and the other normal pursuits in which we all engage. But they ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20PU_parks-marina_Tangier-VA.html
Owner Milton Parks has provided warm hospitality to boaters for decades. His marina serves local watermen, commercial and recreational boat traffic.
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Milton Parks on his scooter - Kaye, 2005
Oyster Buy Boats at Park's Marina - Kaye,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UFQ_lees-bethel-historical_Tangier-VA.html
This cemetery is the possible site of Lee's Bethel, the island's first church. Next to the cemetery is the last of the island's once plentiful garden farms.
Tangiermen were famous for growing melons, filling their boats until just the gunnels w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UE5_dr-copter-flying-medicine-to-tangier-historical_Tangier-VA.html
Every week for more than thirty years Dr. David Buell Nichols made the voyage from Hummel Field in Middlesex County to Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay to administer health care to those in need. For an island with no resident doctor, the soun…