Talbot Historical Society

Past Exhibits

Past Exhibitions

The Talbot Historical Society has a rotating temporary exhibit in the
Lawrence Denton Extended Museum at
25 S. Washington Street.
These exhibits highlight the history and culture of Talbot County.


Talbot People – Photographs and book by Steve Lingeman – This photographic exhibit highlighted people of Talbot County – Easton, Oxford, St. Michaels Trappe and places in between. It’s about all of us and our families, ethnicities, ages, affiliations, religions and professions. This is a project of diversity and the extraordinary collective of people who live in and contribute to Talbot County. The book is also available for purchase at THS.

Made In Talbot County – June 2023 through December 2023

This special exhibit featured Talbot County artisans and craftsmen from centuries past to the early 2000’s. Some individuals featured included Robert Lambdin, Downes Curtis, Ruth Orrell, James and Joseph Neall, Thomas Bruff, Anna Maria Hammond and many more! View their talent and craftsmanship highlighted in this fun and informative exhibit by watching the video below.

Catching Shadows –  An exhibit featuring tintype portraits, recorded voices and local artifacts of Native Americans living in the 21st Century on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. 
  • January 2023 – May 2023

Bay From Above – An exhibit about change, featuring aerial views of Talbot County over 80 years.

  • May 2022 – December 2022

Retail Rewind – This was a highlight of the stores in Talbot county featuring over 50 historic photos, memorabilia and merchandise from shops in Talbot County’s past.

  • May 2021 – December 2021

Honoring WWII Veterans of Talbot County

  • May 4, 2019- September 2019

Historic Decoys of Talbot County

  • Dec 2018

Working Boats of Talbot County

  • Fall 2018

Harvesting Our Heritage

  • Summer 2018

Trains of Talbot County

  • 8-2017

Unionville

  • 7-2017

Historic Homes

  • 6-2017

Canning

  • 4-2017

Windows to the Past: Cordova Remembered

  • 2013
  • With Chapel District 4-H

Neavitt

  • October 2011
  • working with the Village of Neavitt and their main contact person, Karen Footner, on an exhibit about their community.  HSTC has embarked on a series of community-based exhibits.  Neavitt will be the third community to collaborate with us to develop an exhibit.

Easton A-Z

  • 2010
  • 300th anniversary of Easton

Trains, Ships, Planes and Automobiles

  • 2010

Farm Life

  • Rental from NEH Exhibits USA
  • Open: September 1, 2010
  • Close: October 5, 2010

Local Businesses

  • Open: January 31, 2010
  • Close August 1, 2010

NOAA Oyster

  • 2009
  • with NOAA Cooperative Oxford Lab
  • Received NOAA Preserve America Initiative Grant

My Historic Home

  • September 2009

Disease, Medicine, and Epidemics

  • Open: September 1, 2009
  • Close July 31, 2010

Trappe: Changing Town

  • Open: July 1, 2009
  • Close: December 31, 2009

Talbot County Supports the Allies (WWII)

  • Open: February 1, 2009
  • Close: May 31, 2009

Tunis Mills

  • Open: October 1, 2008
  • Close: December 31, 2008

Changing Technology in Everyday Life

  • Open: September 1, 2008
  • Close: July 31, 2009

Voices of American Farm Women (rental from Exhibits USA)

  • Open: July 1, 2008
  • Close: August 31, 2008

Food?

  • Open: October 1, 2007
  • Close: 2008

One Room Schoolhouses

  • Open: September 1, 2007
  • Close: July 31, 2008

Talbot Tails: Pets of the Chesapeake

  • Open: August 1, 2007
  • Close: May 31, 2008

Vanishing Landscapes

  • Shirley Hampton Hunt (rental)
  • Open: May 1, 2007
  • Close: June 30, 2007 or October 31, 2007

1960-1970s

  • Open October 1, 2006
  • Close: July 31, 2007 or August 31, 2007

Federal Era and Saving the Neall House

  • Open June 1, 2006
  • Close: March 31, 2007

Needlework Samplers

  • Open: February 1, 2006
  • Close: April 30, 2006

Victoriana

  • Open: October 1, 2005
  • Close: August 31, 2006

Postcards

  • Open: April 1, 2005
  • Close: December 31, 2005

1954

  • 2003-2004
  • Closed October 2005
  • There was a sock hop event with this exhibit

Anna Matilda Groome

  • 2002

Mayor Martin M. Higgins:

  • The Second Time Around
  • 2002

Cedar Point maybe also called William Bartlett’s World: A Maryland Quaker in the New Republic or An-Opened Book: The Life and Times of William Bartlett, A Maryland Quaker in the New Republic

  • June (2001?)
  • or scheduled to open in Nov 2004
  • The exhibit will focus on the wonderful watercolors of Cedar Point done by the owner William E. Bartlett in 1843.

A Peaceable Haven

  • 1984
  • For the 300th anniversary of the Third Haven Meeting House

Exhibits of the past with unknown dates:
Baseball
Medicine
Gardens
Threshing
Railroad
Log Canoes
Snow Easton
Women’s Exhibit
Mystery Photo
African American Heritage
Changing the Exhibit
Collector’s Corner
Farm Life
Farm Women
Hallway Talbot
Hands On Area
Hollyday
Home Technology
Miles River Bridge Company
War of 1812
Ruth Starr Rose