Peninsula Enterprise, March 20, 1886

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Architecture -- Courthouses

Our court house is receiving the finishing touches of painter, plasterer and carpenter.

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Real estate

Peninsula Enterprise, November 13, 1886

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Weather -- Snow storms

The first snow of the season fell here last Saturday and ice was seen in several places the following morning.

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Migration

Belle Haven.

Peninsula Enterprise, May 29, 1886

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Fields -- Crops - StrawberriesFields -- Crops - Other vegetables

Large shipments of peas, and strawberries, are now being sent daily from every part of the Eastern Shore, and so far the prices received for them have been very satisfactory.

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Transportation -- Railroad - Freight

Peninsula Enterprise, October 16, 1886

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MigrationDisease

Jno. McClelland, a native of Ireland, employed as a laborer by Mr. Oswald J. Adams, near Accomac C. H., died Friday, 8th inst., of typhoid fever, aged 40 years.

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Infrastructure -- Public : Churches

Peninsula Enterprise, May 1, 1886

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - MillineriesWomen -- Work - Outside the home

Mrs. Walter J. Hall will occupy her handsome millinery establishment recently completed on Messongo, next Thursday -- at which time she returns from the city with everything neat and attractive in the millinery line. Mr. Hall also opens out on same day a full line of mercantile goods.

Peninsula Enterprise, January 23, 1886

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Moral -- Other violent crimeTourists and sportsmen -- Field sports - Trespass

George Finney, who was serving a term in our jail for an assault upon Major George P. Barnes, and escaped some weeks ago, delivered himself up to the sheriff on Wednesday and was remanded to jail.

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Moral -- Murder

Peninsula Enterprise, March 27, 1886

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Professionals -- Surveyors

Mr. W. R. Gunter through our columns to day offers his services as surveyor, to the public.

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Moral -- Property crime

Louis Downing, colored, who figured in the house breaking at Wagram in December last, heretofore mentioned in our columns, was sent to jail last Tuesday.

Peninsula Enterprise, April 17, 1886

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Watermen -- Personal injury

A justice of the peace of St. Mary's county, Md., reports to clerk of our court, that a man from our county was drowned in the Potomac river on the 9th inst. He did not give his name.

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Moral -- Alcohol

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