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  • Abstracts from the Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser, Volume 5
    Roberta J. Wearmouth / Roberta JWearmouth
    Volume 5 describes the decline of old Port Tobacco, which happened so quickly that in 1909 the Baltimore Sun newspaper described it as a ghost town. After about two decades of political and social strife marked by great bitterness, the promoters of La Plata as the new county seat brought victory to their cause. The Charles County courthouse in Port Tobacco was destroyed in a se...
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    36,93 €

  • Abstracts from the Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser, Volume 3
    Roberta J. Wearmouth / Roberta JWearmouth
    Volume 3 of the Abstracts re-opens a door long considered or thought shut on the years that saw the beginning of events that led to the destruction of the town of Port Tobacco. Just before Christmas of 1872 the tracks of southern Maryland’s first railroad finally reached the sleepy shore of the Potomac River. Studding the right-of-way of the new rail line from the main road sev...
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    32,76 €

  • Abstracts from the Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser, Volume 1
    Roberta J. Wearmouth / Roberta JWearmouth
    Life in Charles County was marked by currents of change that would lead to two major events before 1900: completion of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in late 1872 led to the founding of La Plata, and the continuing effort to move the county seat from its two-century-old site on Port Tobacco Creek to La Plata’s more promising location on the Pope’s Creek Branch of the railro...
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    30,34 €

  • Abstracts from the Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser, Volume 2
    Roberta J. Wearmouth / Roberta JWearmouth
    Although many issues of the newspaper are missing, especially during the Civil War years, Mrs. Wearmouth nonetheless provides a second volume packed with information. The articles abstracted in this work provide the reader with a glimpse of many aspects of daily life in the county. Typical newspaper accounts of marriages, births, deaths, court cases, executions of wills and est...
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    30,34 €

  • Abstracts from the Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser, Volume 4
    Roberta J. Wearmouth / Roberta JWearmouth
    During the years covered by this volume, life in Charles County was marked by currents of change that would lead to two major events before 1900. As indicated in Volume 3, the completion of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in late 1872 led to the founding of the new town of La Plata astride the railroad. The Volume 4 years also reveal an unbroken political, social and economi...
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    35,19 €

  • Abstracts from the Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser, Volume 6
    Roberta J. Wearmouth / Roberta JWearmouth
    In 1898, The Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser merged with the La Plata Crescent, providing county democrats with a steady and vigorous expression of their business and social views and tendencies for another 93 years. This volume of abstracts, the last in a series, takes the original Times newspaper up to the date of its consolidation with the Crescent. The merg...
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    33,38 €