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From: "David Kearney" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V00 #389
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:13:57 -0400
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This reminds me of seeing something recently either on TV, or in the
newspaper (Richmond, Virginia), or somewhere else recently about an eroding
island with one house left on it, that the owner was trying to save, out of
what had been a community through the middle of the 1900s. If I had any
brains, I would have saved the article (so maybe it was on TV?). I wonder
if it was Hollands? The name didn't ring a bell with me at the time.

Dave
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>
> Yes there is a Hollands Island. My father was born there in 1899. At
that
> time there were about 20 or 25 homes/ families living on the island.
ieroson
> has left a small strip of land with one building on it.
>
> The island was about 5 miles off Wenona, Md in the Chesapeake Bay,
south
> of Bloodsworth Island, north of Smith Island. I last flew over the island
> (it is in restricted air space opposit PAX River naval base) about a year
> ago. There was one building on a small strip of sand.
>
> Contact Gail Walczyk at E-Mail: She has
published a
> small booklet about Hollands Island.
>
> Clifford A Parks
>
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