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This oyster shucking stand is similar to those in the images from Rock Point, Maryland, (Charles County) used by workers as they shucked cans upon cans of oysters.

Turtle pot, which was converted from a crab trap, Oyster Tongs, a tool used to gather/harvest oysters, Eelpot, a wicker trap used to catch eel, often used as food and bait, and a hickery oyster mop, used to sweep homes and scrub boats.

A rack, pitchfork/hayfork, corner sheller and barrel, used as tools for farming,

This oak desk was used by H. Fillmore Bounds at the Mt. Vernon steamboat wharf in Princess Anne, Maryland, during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Various homestead artifacts, ranging from cooking implements to furniture.

The linen press and corner cupboard are originally from the Eastern Shore of Virginia and were most likely made in the late 18th century

Desk owned by multiple generations of the Morris/Pollitt Family.

John Ogilby’s 1671 map of Maryland is oriented with north to the right, reflecting the purpose of chart design for ship captains approaching the entrance at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Ogilby’s map is significant because it is the first to name…

Map makers would have used drafting tools, like the ones displayed here, from the late 1700s to the early 1800s

Land patent for Gray’s Woodyard in Worcester County, Maryland, dated October 10, 1743. Land was purchased near St. Martins River by Joseph Gray from Joseph Scroggin and was located adjacent to James Stephen Bridell’s plantation. This land deed is…