Sharps Island Remembered: Tilghman Watermen’s Museum Reopens with New Exhibit

The following excerpt is from Chesapeake Bay Museum.

When the Tilghman Watermen’s Museum reopens for the season this weekend, it will debut a new exhibit that tells the story of long-gone Sharps Island.

The only sign of Sharps Island today is a noticeably leaning, sparkplug-style lighthouse. It marks the shoals at the mouth of the Choptank River off Poplar Island and Black Walnut Point. It’s hard to imagine that the area near Sharps Island light was once an island up to 700-acres large, but some people in Tilghman still remember when there was some island left to see.

The Tilghman Watermen’s Museum, which records the lifestyle of watermen and the things they do, was founded by Hall and Mary Kellogg in 2008 because the couple saw the old Tilghman Island way of life disappearing.