John M. Elliott,
Life Worth Living on the Chesapeake Bay and its Tributaries Locke
John M. Elliott
Life Worth Living on the Chesapeake Bay and its Tributaries, Talbot County, Maryland and the Thousand Opportunities of the Far Famed Beauties on the Eastern Shore. Tidewater and Inland Farms. Old Colonial Estates. Talbot County, The Venice of America.
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For people of color, life on the Chesapeake was much different from wealthy families who regarded the Eastern Shore as the “Venice of America.”
There are many resorts and cities on the seacoast of the United states which have been referred to as “The Venice of the New World.” But the one section of America to which the term can be applied with every justification is that delightful region along the Chesapeake Bay and extending eastward toward the Atlantic Ocean, known as “The Eastern Shore of Maryland.”
Labor is Reasonable. The ease of getting trained labor is one of the advantages of the Eastern Shore. A good laborer and his wife thus cost about twenty dollars a month, probably the cheapest good labor in the United States. Colored labor for harvest time, for wood chopping and other work about the home or farm is easily obtained at prices ranging from one dollar to one dollar and fifty cents a day. The wages paid housemaids, nurses, colored cooks and grooms is proportionately cheap, but faithful and efficient.