Fri, 9/25: walked 2.2 miles; total miles to date, 55.58
Today our walk takes us through Denton, Md, population about 4000, located on the Choptank River. It’s the county seat of Caroline County, MD. Highlights include the Tuckahoe Neck Meetinghouse, built in the 1700s by a tiny and short-lived Christian sect called the Nicolites. It was eventually taken over by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), who absorbed most of the sect’s followers after the death of their founder Joseph Nicol in 1770. Like the Quakers the Nicolites were fiercely opposed to slavery, and the Tuckahoe Neck meetinghouse was a center of Underground Railroad activity.
This week’s news in Denton: the town council is going to slash the town budget by $280,000 for 2010, however they have approved a project to renovate Fifth Avenue, from the Royal Farms store at Market St, to the Food Lion Shopping Center along state route 404. They voted down a proposal to renovate the town hall or to build a new one.
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