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Maryland’s only inhabited offshore island (American Folklife Center 2008). Smith Island is actually made up of several smaller islands which together are called Smith Island (Scheller 2000). The islands together comprise about 8,000 acres, of which only about 900 is habitable (Anon. 2005). There are...
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Summary: | Maryland’s only inhabited offshore island (American Folklife Center 2008). Smith Island is actually made up of several smaller islands which together are called Smith Island (Scheller 2000). The islands together comprise about 8,000 acres, of which only about 900 is habitable (Anon. 2005). There are three villages: “Ewell and Rhodes Point on one island, connected by a two-mile-long blacktop road sometimes underwater at high tide, and Tylerton, across Tyler Creek from Rhodes Point, on another island ” (Meyer 2008). |
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