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Moving - Smith Island, Maryland
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We've included here a brief history of
Smith Island, MD.
A Brief History of Smith Island, Maryland
Maryland's only inhabited offshore island
is home to 350 men, women, and children who are descended
from the original settlers who arrived in 1659. The original
English and Welsh settlers inhabit the three villages of
Smith Island, possibly Maryland's most isolated and intact
enclave of traditional culture. Families are said to be able
to trace their genealogy back 12 generations. Islanders
speak a distinctive dialect that they call a "backward
language" - they employ certain turns of phrase that only an
islander would understand correctly. Once an island of
farmers, today's inhabitants make a living crabbing and
oystering in the Chesapeake Bay. It is a hard occupation,
sometimes involving 12-hour days. No local government or
police maintain order on the island, but each community has
its own Methodist church where local decisions are made,
thus providing political as well as religious cohesion.

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