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Holland Island is a marshy, rapidly eroding island in the Chesapeake Bay, in Dorchester County, Maryland, west of Salisbury. The island was once inhabited by watermen and farmers but has since been abandoned due to sinking of the land's surface associated with isostatic subsidence and sea level rise .
The Holland Island Bar Light was a screw-pile lighthouse in the Chesapeake Bay which existed from 1889 to 1960. It is remembered for the unexplained death of one of its keepers, and for being "attacked" by United States Navy pilots during a training exercise.
The fertile soil [8] has long been a draw to the island. Attractions on the island include Holland House with an associated folk museum and the Knap of Howar Neolithic farmstead run by Historic Scotland. It is the ninth largest of the Orkney Islands with an area of 918 hectares (2,270 acres).
Holland Harbor Lighthouse† / Holland Harbor: South Pier, Holland Harbor, Holland State Park: Holland vicinity January 16, 1976: Holland Old City Hall and Fire Station† 106 Eighth Street Holland: November 7, 1977: Holland Post Office: 3110th Street Holland: July 17, 1997: Hope Church: 77 West 11th Street Holland: April 20, 1989: Hope College ...
These Islands are relatively permanent, although some are disappearing on the scale of a few centuries, like Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. There are also a number of unnamed islands in Maryland, many of which are very temporary in nature, lasting only a few years or decades, both in the tidal environment and also in Maryland's larger ...
Holland Farm is a historic farm complex located on the island of Papa Westray in Orkney, Scotland.The two-storey harled flagstone house with crow-stepped gables, was built by Thomas Traill as a laird's house in the early 1800s.
Holland House shown as "Earl of Hollands" on a 1675 map by John Ogilby. Cope commissioned the house in 1604 from the architect John Thorpe, [a] to preside over a 500 acres (200 ha; 0.78 sq mi) estate that, in modern terms, stretched from Holland Park Avenue almost to Fulham Road, [3] and contained exotic trees imported by John Tradescant the Younger. [4]
Lynn Tomlinson is an animator and artist. She is a professor at Towson University. [1] She lives in Baltimore, MD, with her husband, Craig J Saper, and her family.She has taught at Cornell University, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Delaware College of Art and Design, Richard Stockton College, and Tufts University.