Carpenters Island (St. Mary's County, Maryland)

This article is about the island in St. Mary's County, Maryland. For the island in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, see Carpenter Island (Maryland).

38°18′N 76°43′W / 38.30°N 76.72°W / 38.30; -76.72

Carpenters Island was an island located at the head of St. Clement's Bay in St. Mary's County, Maryland, patented in 1847 to Susan E. Carpenter, Amanda Carpenter, Rebecca Carpenter, and Matilda Carpenter and certified in the name of William Carpenter. The land patented included surrounding waters and measured one and three quarter acres.[1][2] In 2005, the island was included in a list of "lost islands" of Chesapeake Bay,[3] which is situated between Maryland and Virginia in the United States.

  1. ^ Linda Davis Reno: St. Mary's County Patent Records 1635-1946, St. Mary's County Historical Society, Leonardtown, Md., c2002, p. 17.
  2. ^ "MSA Guide to Government Records". Maryland State Archives. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  3. ^ William B. Cronin: The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 2005, p. 165.