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The Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance Inc. is a non-profit 501(c) 3, all volunteer organization that was formed in December of 2005 to purchase, study and restore the brick house at the Handsell plantation site and make it available for pub…
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A grand plantation home is destroyed and rebuilt. Early History1768-The Indian Reservation at Chicone was dissolved by the Maryland Colony. 484 acres of HANDSELL went to Ann Billings and her husband, Henry Steele. According to oral history the…
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Pre-History-For at least 2,500 years prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Eastern Woodland Indians inhabited a wide area in the eastern part of the United States including the vastly wooded area of the Delmarva Peninsula. This region is noted fo…
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"When I am homesick, I just call up rene in my dreams and I'am right back home in the Indian Town." Gloria Robinson Walter. It is clear that from the early days on both white and black families lived in the Indiantown as a plantation community…
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Captain John Smith explored the Chesapeake Bay in the early 1600s seeking metals and a passage to Asia. He traveled the James, Chickahominy, and York rivers in 1607, and led two major expeditions from Jamestown in 1608. Smith and his crew sailed a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1705_discover-vienna-heritage_Vienna-MD.html
Welcome to Vienna, Maryland. Situated on a bend in the Nanticoke River, Vienna has been a crossroads, a trading center, and a gateway to the Chesapeake Bay for centuries. Today Vienna is busily planning for its future while embracing its past. Wit…
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Lived (about 1677) at Chicacone, an ancient Indian town north of this point. The Nanticoke Indian Reservation was laid out by act of Assembly 1698, containing 5166 1/4 acres.
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