Saturday, March 28, 2015

Twelve Old Houses West of Chesapeake Bay


Twelve Old Houses West of Chesapeake Bay






"Almost from the beginning the Marylanders and Virginians were lovers of the soil. Towns as centers of social and political life were few. Indians as a rule had been friendly, and it was safe for settlers to take up grants along the innumerable rivers, where land was most fertile and where tobacco could be shipped off so readily from private wharves."



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