Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . MARYLAND towns and well kept farms. These German settlers weresober, industrious and frugal. They built up a trade withBaltimore that steadily grew, and flourishes to this goods were carried at first on strings of six or eightpack-horses, and later in the large covered carts calledConestoga wagons. They gave very queer names to their settlements and. CONESTOGA WAGON farms. The Englishmen in the eastern part of the colonycalled their manors by such names as Evelinton, KentFort, or White Hall. Some of the names which the Ger-mans gav
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . MARYLAND towns and well kept farms. These German settlers weresober, industrious and frugal. They built up a trade withBaltimore that steadily grew, and flourishes to this goods were carried at first on strings of six or eightpack-horses, and later in the large covered carts calledConestoga wagons. They gave very queer names to their settlements and. CONESTOGA WAGON farms. The Englishmen in the eastern part of the colonycalled their manors by such names as Evelinton, KentFort, or White Hall. Some of the names which the Ger-mans gave are Hagars Delight, Small Bit, Jacobs Lossand Found It Out. These names bring to mind the name Acadia, anothercountry whose persecuted people came to Maryland. 94 GERMANS AND FRENCH The poet Longfellow has told the story of the Acaclians inhis poem Evangeline.* AVhen you are older I hope youwill read this poem for yourselves. Acadia w^as a part of Nova Scotia, and the people wereFrench. But France had been compelled to give up NovaScotia to the English. France and England were at warfor a long time, but the Acadians for the most part tookno part in the war. But they did not like their Englishrulers and gave them some trouble. So the Englishdetermined that the Acadians must leave their country. Thousands of them were driven on board of ships to besent away. They were not allowed to take their propertywi
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