Celebrating the Nation’s Semiquincentennial in

Talbot County, MD

Learn how Talbot250’s core themes and monthly topics will guide our yearlong celebration and shape how Talbot County’s history is explored and shared.

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Find upcoming talks, exhibitions, celebrations, and community gatherings happening throughout the year as part of Talbot250’s commemorations.

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Discover ways to participate in Talbot250—whether you’re an artist, organization, educator, or resident—and learn how to connect, collaborate, and share your own story.

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Talbot250 at the Avalon Summer Concert Series: U.S. Navy Band Sea Chanters
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Talbot250 at the Avalon Summer Concert Series: U.S. Navy Band Sea Chanters

Join Talbot250 at select Avalon Summer Concert Series performances throughout the summer. Stop by our table for family-friendly activities, learn about upcoming Talbot250 events, and enjoy outstanding performances from some of the nation's premier military bands.

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Bear Me Into Freedom Showing

Bear Me Into Freedom: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for America’s Promise is a tribute to Talbot County’s native son, Frederick Douglass, made more poignant during America’s Semiquincentennial.

The exhibition is a 60-minute immersive experience, a video installation portraying the odyssey of Frederick Douglass from his birth and enslavement in the Eastern Shore’s Talbot County to his life’s work championing abolition, emancipation, and equal rights, and his triumphal return to the county as an elder statesman having become one of the most consequential figures of the 19th century.

Talbot250 at the Avalon Summer Concert Series: U.S. Air Force Band's Singing Sergeants

Join Talbot250 at select Avalon Summer Concert Series performances throughout the summer. Stop by our table for family-friendly activities, learn about upcoming Talbot250 events, and enjoy outstanding performances from some of the nation's premier military bands.

Watermen's Appreciation Day

Held in partnership with the Talbot Watermen Association since 2010, this annual celebration by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum honors the hardworking men and women who bring the Bay’s bounty to our tables.

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View fullsize The Tilghman family experienced deep divisions during the Revolutionary War, with members scattered globally and politically. Tench Tilghman served as George Washington’s trusted aide, while his Loyalist father, James, endured arrest and fami
View fullsize ICYMI - The SAR’s Colonel Tench Tilghman Chapter honored its namesake after receiving proclamations from Easton and Talbot County for the inaugural Tench Tilghman Week from Oct. 19 to 24. #PeopleofTalbot #TalbotHistory 📸 Courtesy of Maryland
View fullsize October 24, 1784 📅 Colonel Tench Tilghman arrives in Philadelphia, carrying news to Congress about the surrender of Charles Lord Cornwallis of the British Army. This signified a major turning point in the war. #Talbot250 #RevolutionaryWar
View fullsize People of Talbot 📖 Born on Christmas Day in 1744, Tench Tilghman was the first child of James and Anna Tilghman of Talbot County, Maryland. After a beginning a career as a mercantile, he joined the military effort as tensions rose against Great Br
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View fullsize More for #TenchTilghmanWeek The National Park Service writes that Tilghman was even sick during his ride from Yorktown to Philadelphia "with chills and fever" and that he left the army in 1783 with failing health. After Tilghman's death,
View fullsize ICYMI Col Tench Tilghman Chapter of the Sons of the Revolution came before Talbot County Council to provide a brief history on the significance of their namesake, Tench Tilghman. #Talbot250 #PeopleofTalbot
View fullsize July 30, 1952 📅 The Chesapeake Bay Bridge was opened to traffic. “The main effect of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, then, was not to produce a rush of shoppers east-west, but a rush of tourists, vacationers, and other travelers west-east. Baltim