Lost Towns of Tidewater Maryland

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In the years between 1668 and 1751, the government of Maryland -- first the Lord Proprietor and later the General Assembly -- attempted to establish a total of 130 towns or ports in the tidewater area, an urban development program unrivaled in scope by any other colony except Virginia. The framers of the early towns were unwilling to allow development to occur naturally, they tried to create towns despite natural, economic, social, and topographic realities that doomed most of them to short lives and ultimate obscurity. Today less than a score of the early towns survive, the others, the majority, shared a common end -- they slipped into oblivion.This is the story of ten lost towns, chosen to represent a cross-section of all. Each was unique in the manner in which it was given birth, flickered into existence against all odds, matured, and finally expired. This history of Maryland's early efforts at town and port development is not just a tale of the buildings and wharves, but also of the people, both freemen and slaves, who created them, lived and worked in them, defended them, and died with them.

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