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Choptank: wharves (three steamboat lines served With the death on January 31, 1984, of
the town), two churches and a school, Lloyd F. Price, a long-time waterman of
From Fishing stores and several industries. Choptank, another link with the past
thriving waterfront town was broken.
to Boating Today the county-owned marina, new
slips and a completed dredging project, Price, a waterman for 57 years, was
thanks to the state, may pump some life instrumental in the establishment of the
This very interesting article

back into the community. present Choptank Marina, now owned
about Choptank is from
by the county, and acted as its manager
the March 1984 issue of It was considered one of the prime until 1982 when the county phased out

the Caroline Review. fishing villages on the Choptank River his job.
years ago with watermen reported to
The large grey metal Maryland state have landed as many as 6,000 shad and It is operated through the Department
historic road sign says there were herring in a single day. of Recreation and Parks today.
Indians in the Choptank area of Caroline
County in 1679, and that the tiny fi shing We are told that industry moved in such
community even had a post office in as a tomato cannery, a shirt factory, a
1883. box crate and basket factory, and even
a sawmill.

The late 1880s may have been a boom
time for the town that overlooks the But the advent of the railroads to the
broad reaches of the Choptank River a Eastern Shore, while bringing prosperity
few miles south of Preston, but it sleeps to other small towns, signaled the demise

quietly now. However, there is a prospect of Choptank. The modern highways and

of seeing increased traffic with its newly the automobile sent people everywhere.
improved marina. Choptank settled into a sleepy village of
few fishermen and less boaters.

Before the turn of the century, this was
a thriving town with bustling steamship

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