Princess Anne: Architecture, River Trade, and Manokin River Park

Explore Princess Anne through its architecture, trading history, and walking paths. Teackle Mansion is a striking brick mansion; river trade played a role in the town’s development into a trading center. Manokin River Park brings together a winding river and a walking path, while a spooky walking tour takes visitors through the historic district. These themes offer different points of interest: architectural form and brickwork, the history of trade, an outdoor stroll, or a storytelling tour. When planning your stay, you can decide which of these interests best suits you.

Teackle Mansion: Architecture and Brickwork

Teackle Mansion is a large, five-part Federal-style brick mansion featuring Flemish-bond brickwork. It is a roughly 200-year-old Neoclassical brick mansion. These different terms make its construction easy to understand from several angles: the five-part form describes its layout, Federal style identifies its architectural style, and Flemish bond describes the arrangement of the bricks in the masonry. Its approximate age adds a historical dimension to these architectural features. If you enjoy historic architecture, you can look at its form, style, and materials rather than simply classifying the building as an old mansion.

River Trade and Local History

River trade helped Princess Anne develop into a trading center in the mid-18th century. This development adds an economic perspective to the town’s architectural history: a building tells the story of the town through its form and construction, while its role as a trading center places it in the context of trade relations at the time. Two different scales of history sit side by side: one specific mansion and the town’s development over a longer period.

Institutional History

Institutional history offers another perspective on the past. The University of Maryland Eastern Shore opened its doors on September 13, 1886, as the Delaware Conference Academy. The university’s campus cemetery is the final resting place of three early educational leaders from the period when the institution was known as Princess Anne Academy.

Manokin River Park: River and Walking Path

The winding Manokin River borders Manokin River Park to the north, and the park also has a walking path. The river boundary and the path describe different aspects of the same place: a landscape feature and an opportunity to get around on foot. In contrast to Teackle Mansion and the history of trade, the focus here is on the landscape and movement. If a walk is one of your travel interests, you can consider the park an outdoor highlight.

Walking Tour of the Historic District

Princess Anne Ghost Tours: Punishment, Purgatory & Perdition offers a different kind of walk. The spooky tour takes visitors on foot through Princess Anne’s historic district. Unlike the walking path in the park, it has a storytelling focus: the spooky tour concept and the historic setting take center stage. The tour operator maintains the schedule on its website. If you want to include the tour in your travel plans, check the schedule there in advance and plan around the listed dates.

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