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TRAPPE,
AREA ARTIFACTS, OLD PHOTOS, &
MAPS , A collection
of dozens of historical photographs
depicting Trappe, Trappe area business,
industry, churches, schools, black
heritage, interesting people and
places, and much more. [
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TRAPPE, MD. AREA
POSTCARDS, By James
Dawson; A compilation of cards (60 total)
from several collections. Approximately 19 of
the Trappe cards are known by one copy only.
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THE FIRST EASTERN SHORE OF MD. VOL. INFANTRY
AT THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG by John H. Shane from the Nov. 27, 1924 National Tribune.
Dickson Preston’s Trappe The Story of an Old Fashioned Town states that Gov. Hicks summoned James C. Mullikin of Trappe, Md. to organize a company of Union volunteers in Cambridge. Charles R. Mullikin, a leading Trappe merchant, was named captain of Company H, which was Talbot Co.’s unit in the newly formed First Eastern Shore Regiment commanded by Col. James Wallace of Dorchester Co. Argalus G. Hennissee, James Mullikin and Solomon Colburn, were lieutenants, and Robert W. Ross was first sergeant. All were from the Trappe area, as were most of the 12 other non-commissioned officers and 64 privates.
At Gettysburg, Trappe men faced off against other Trappe men. Color sergeant Sgt. Robert W. Ross was the cousin of P. M. Moore who was the color sergeant of the First Maryland Confederate Regiment. Sgt. Moore was captured during the battle and died of his injuries a few days later. The 1st Md. Confederate Regiment also included several men from Trappe.
Ten men from Company H were wounded and one, Andrew Satterfield died soon afterwards.
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FIRST PUBLISHED
HISTORY OF TRAPPE, 1874
Originally printed in April 1874 issue of
The Index, Trappe's first newspaper,
reprinted nine years later in the April 11,
1883 issue of the Trappe Enterprise.
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IRREGULARITIES IN ABUNDANCE, An Anecdotal History of Trappe District in Talbot Co., Md., edited and with Commentary by James Dawson, 2010.
Everything you always wanted to known about Trappe district ... and more!
This is the third history of Trappe that has
been published. It differs from the previous two in that it is an anecdotal collection
of material gleaned from old documents, diaries, newspaper articles, personal
recollections and other sources with commentary interspersed.
Here is the good, the bad, the ugly and the humorous about Trappe and
Trappe District as witnessed by the people who lived it.
Also included is an extensive study of how Trappe got its
name.
272 pages illustrated with photos and maps and with a complete
index. $18.50 plus tax
[Available from Unicorn
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NEW ITEM
JUST PUBLISHED OCTOBER 2010 NOW AVAILABLE
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!!
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TRAPPE THE
STORY OF AN OLD-FASHONED
TOWN by Dickson
Preston; Trappe Bicentennial Committee;
1996, 2nd printing of the original 1976
edition; 6 x 9; 157 pages plus ads; many
illustrations; an excellent and highly
readable history of the town where some
said "nothing ever happened in 300
years". Actually, it is surprising
what was going on in Trappe: read all
about it here. softbound; new;
$7.50
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THE DAY IT
RAINED FROGS, By James
Dawson; ....."There was no clue at all
that in a few short hours, an event would
occur so horrendous as to send the very watch
dogs howling for shelter." [
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TWO BOYS AND A
NEWSPAPER, The Saga of the
Trappe Enterprise, by James Dawson
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A TRAPPE
ENTERPRISE SAMPLER 1883-1885 edited
and with glossary by James Dawson;
Unicorn Bookshop 2004; 37 pp with an
appendix and notes and glossary; 8 1/2
x 11; illustrated with rare
photographs; Excerpts from the locals
column of the Trappe Enterprise a
newspaper established by two teenagers
17 year old Charles Kemp and 16 year
old Percy Mullikin from Trappe, MD. Its
take on local news is refreshing and
sometimes hilarious; wraps; new;
$9.75
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TRAPPE, TALBOT
COUNTY, Brief Description
of an ancient town on the Eastern Shore,
Baltimore Herald, June 3, 1881. [
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TRAPPE HAS A
LARGE AND PROSPEROUS SECTION WITH WHICH TO DO
BUSINESS
Mr. Chaplain's store was noted for its
excellent whiskey....., Star Democrat
March 17, 1923 [
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TRAPPE'S
1828 INCORPORATION
Trappe's first incorporation dated from
1828. Appartently it was forgotten since the
town was incorporated again in 1856. Archives
of Maryland, Vol. 474, p. 105
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TRADITIONS,
LEGENDS, AND HISTORY OF
TRAPPE by W.W. Webster,
Star Democrat June 21, 1940
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ADS FROM THE
TRAPPE ENTERPRISE The
Trappe Enterprise, January 05, 1883 [
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TRAPPE'S
BY-LAWS AS PRINTED IN 1860
The Maryland Code : Public General Laws and
Public Local Laws, 1860 Volume 145, Volume 2,
Page 870 TALBOT COUNTY. ART. 20. TRAPPE.
"....No person shall vote or be eligible
to office at any such election, unless he be
a white male citizen, twenty-one years of
age,....."
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BY-LAWS AND
REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF
TRAPPE (1884) from the
Trappe Enterprise, July 30, 1884
"....No Geese shall run at large in the
streets of Trappe, and a fine of Ten cents a
head shall be paid for every violation of
this Law......"
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LA TRAPPE RIVER
DREDGING ETC. From the May
7, 1884 issue of the Trappe Enterprise
on dredging what would later be named La
Trappe River.
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TO LA
TRAPPE Robert Linck
Folwell publishes a poem about Trappe in his
book The Mystic Atlantic City, Morro
Castle and Other Poems, [N.Y., James
Stewart, Publisher, p. 101]: 1903
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HOW DID TRAPPE, MD. GET ITS NAME? by James Dawson, 2008. Was Trappe founded by Trappist monks from France? Or did it get its name from a tavern called The Partridge Trap? The answer may surprise you. It was none of the above. Read all about it here.
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HISTORIES OF TRAPPE
DISTRICT NECKS In the late
1920s, Wilson M. Tyler wrote a series of
histories about Talbot County's several
Neck "districts" for the Easton
Star Democrat. Tyler, a local historian and
former editor and publisher of the Easton
Gazette, knew the county well. Trappe
District was completely represented with
Island Creek Neck on Oct. 1, Grubin Neck on
Oct. 15, Cambridge Ferry Neck on Oct. 22,
Bolingbroke Neck on Oct. 29, Bambury on Nov.
5, and Landing Neck on Nov. 12, 1927. Also
included is an auto tour of Bolingbroke Neck
he made in 1915, and an article on Windy Hill
and Bruceville from 1927.
Despite
the author's sometimes flowery writing
style, these delightful articles present an
intimate and invaluable look at a time long
past. Most of the articles were accompanied
by hand drawn maps and photos which are
included here. The photos are of poor
quality, but they are better than none at
all. Sadly, all of the original photographs
were lost in a basement flood decades
ago.
These
transcriptions have been made from microfilms
of poor quality original newspapers which are
often difficult to read. The article on
Bambury Neck is unreadable and would have
been completely lost, but for the chance
survival of an original clipping preserved by
a Trappe resident.
It
is hoped that these transcriptions will give
Tyler's histories some new readers in the
21st century.
