[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 18209-18210]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                            EASTON, MARYLAND

 Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, today I ask my colleagues to join 
me in congratulating the Eastern Shore town of Easton, MD, which is 
concluding its 300th anniversary celebration.
  In 1710, the Assembly of the Province of Maryland chose Easton as the 
site for a new court house to serve the pre-Revolution population of 
sea merchants and farmers. Easton was incorporated as a town in Talbot 
County, MD, in 1790 and serves as the county seat.
  Easton is located on the shore of the Tred Avon River that flows into 
the Chesapeake Bay. It was a bustling port for Eastern Shore 
agricultural products and seafood for much of its first

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200 years. Many of the farms on the Eastern Shore of Maryland had 
slaves, and it was in Talbot County where Frederick Douglass, the 
abolitionist, was raised. Because of his national leadership in the 
abolitionist movement, a statue of Mr. Douglass will soon be erected on 
the court house lawn in Easton.
  Easton remains a cultural and community center for merchants, 
lawyers, bankers, trades people, farmers, and watermen. Weekend 
visitors, sailors and retirees have been added to the mix and continue 
to enrich the community.
  Today, Easton is a country town with urbane sensibilities. A 1786 
survey of the town showed that Easton was barely 95 acres, a tiny 
collection of government offices, residences, and shops surrounded by 
wide expanses of farms and forests. Today, Easton is comprised of 6,866 
acres, home to an airport, medical centers, schools, museums, music, 
art competitions, the young Chesapeake Film Festival, and the 
celebrated annual Waterfowl Festival, which fills the closed downtown 
streets with thousands of bird and art lovers.
  I ask my colleagues to join me in saluting the town of Easton, MD, on 
its 300th birthday.

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