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Talbot County was divided
into election districts in 1856 and again in 1707. The Trappe
District consists of roughly one-third of the county, although
the actual incorporated town of Trappe is a tiny portion of that
area, with only about 1,000 residents. The town became an
incorporated municipality in 1827 but did not actually function
as such until 1856.
The Trappe area produced two governors of Maryland within a
ten-year span—Samuel Stevens (three one-year terms, 1823–1825)
and Daniel Martin (1828–29 and 1830–31). In the early 1900s, it
produced a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame—“Home Run” Frank
Baker, a member of the Philadelphia Athletics team when he
produced his celebrated home runs against the New York Giants in
the 1911 and 1913 World Series.
Trappe has been described as a small town on the Eastern
Shore “where nothing has ever happened for 300 years.” That’s
not quite true, but the residents are happy to foster the image
and let travelers on their way to the beach pass them by.
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