Jason Morgan Rhodes

Somerset County in Vintage Postcards

Crisfield, (Md): The First Century

National Hard Crab Derby, (MD)

Somerset County (Images of America)

The southernmost county in Maryland, Somerset was established in 1666 by Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, and named in honor of his wife's sister, Lady Mary Somerset. The county originally included the area of what today is the adjacent counties of Worcester and Wicomico as well as a portio...

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Somerset 350: A Pictorial Treasury

From the municipalities of Crisfield and Princess Anne to the shores of Deal Island and the former strawberry fields of Marion Station, Somerset County has a history all its own. Author Jason Rhodes celebrates the county’s rich heritage over the past three and a half centuries in “Somerset 350: A Pi...

National Hard Crab Derby (MD) (Images of America)

In 1947, The Crisfield Times published an editorial prompting an annual crab derby, a sort of Kentucky Derby spotlighting one of Crisfield’s greatest natural resources: the Chesapeake Bay blue crab. The next year, the National Hard Crab Derby began. Since that brief crab race in front of the Crisfie...

Salisbury (Images of America)

In 1732, Salisbury Towne was founded on the eastern coast of Maryland on 15 acres, which belonged to William Winder. The town flourished, and upon the founding of Wicomico County in 1867, its county seat was declared Salisbury. Both the town and the county grew rapidly, earning Salisbury the nicknam...

Somerset County in Vintage Postcards (MD) (Postcard History Series)

When Somerset County, named in honor of Lord Baltimore's sister Lady Mary Somerset, was first established by the Colony of Maryland in 1666, it encompassed more than 16,000 square miles on the Eastern Shore, including what are today's Worcester and Wicomico Counties and part of lower Delaware. By th...

Somerset County, Maryland:: A Brief History

From its first sighting by European explorers in 1498, Somerset County on Maryland's Eastern Shore has played a significant role in America's heritage. Set on the beautiful backdrop of the Tangier Sound, its story is a tale of Native Americans, naval battles, Confederate generals, buried treasure, o...

Maryland's Amusement Parks (MD) (Images of America)

From Ferris wheels to roller coasters to tunnels of love, everyone has a favorite amusement park memory. For nearly 130 years, many of those memories have been made at Maryland’s amusement parks. Today, only five exist, but throughout history, nearly three dozen have been part of Maryland’s landscap...