Local History

Offers free public computers with internet access, free wifi, color printing for $.25 a page, black & white and color copies for $.25 a page, free scanning, free access to databases, books by mail, faxing for $1 per fax, and free access to books, ebooks, audiobooks, DVD’s, magazines, and newspapers. The meeting room adjacent to the Greensboro Branch is managed by Maryland Rural Development Center. It is available at no cost for free meetings that are open to the public with a capacity of 45-50 people. Call 410.482.2173 for more information. tags: copies, copying, fax, photocopy, printing, Wifi[…]

Offers free public computers with internet access, free wifi, color printing for $.25 a page, black & white, and color copies for $.25 a page, free scanning, free access to databases, books by mail, free meeting rooms for qualified groups, faxing for $1 per fax, and free access to books, ebooks, audiobooks, DVD’s, magazines, and newspapers. Call 410-754-8397 for more information. tags: copies, copy, copying, fax, meeting room, photocopying, Wifi[…]

Offers free public computers with internet access, free wifi, color printing for $.25 a page, black & white, and color copies for $.25 a page, free scanning, free access to databases, books by mail, faxing for $1.00 per fax, and free access to books, ebooks, audiobooks, DVD’s, magazines, and newspapers. Offers a MakerSpace with 3D printers, Virtual Reality, gaming stations, and more. Call 410-479-1343 for more information. tags: copies, copying, fax, photocopies, Wifi[…]

The Caroline County Historical Society is dedicated to preserving and restoring historical artifacts and buildings, as well as educating the public about the history of the County.[…]

CRH documents historic places, people, and events in the Choptank River watershed, with a focus on Caroline County. We share stories of Choptank River heritage sites through blogs and other social media publications. Geographic research about places, placenames, and natural and man-made features forms the basis of our storytelling. We help neighbors and visitors Stand in the Place.[…]

The Museum of Rural Life offers visitors a rare glimpse into this world through historic dwellings. Highlights include an exhibit of all or a portion of four historic houses:• Painter’s Range, an entire log cabin home of a tenant or subsistence farmer, circa 1824• Chance’s Desire, home of a “middling planter,” circa 1787• Skillington’s Right, home of the Fraziers, a wealthy planter family, circa 1795• Taylor-Brown House, built for merchant-broker Solomon Brown in 1819 and later owned by the Taylors, an African American family. This house was moved twice by mule cart and survived the fire that leveled most[…]

Founded in 1973, the USGS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization run by volunteers and covers Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s and Talbot Counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.The Upper Shore Genealogical Society goal to discover, collect and disseminate data and records significant to history and family research, much of which reveals links between community and the land, as well as the education of its members and others in the techniques of genealogical research. tags: geneaology[…]

To record and preserve the history of Ridgely.[…]

The United States Daughters of 1812, founded in 1892, is a women’s volunteer service organization dedicated to:–Promoting patriotism, preserving and increasing knowledge of the history of the American people by the preservation of documents and relics,–Marking of historic spots,–Recording of family histories and traditions,–Celebration of patriotic anniversaries,–Teaching and emphasizing the heroic deeds of the civil, military, and naval life of those who molded this Government between the close of the American Revolution and the close of the War of 1812,–To urge Congress to compile and publish authentic records of men in civil, military, and naval service from 1784 to[…]