Vanished house on the island Holland Bashny.Net

Holland Island is located in the Chesapeake Bay between the island and the island Bladsvors Smith, six miles west of Wenona, Maryland. When he was about 5 miles long and 1.5 miles wide, inhabited by fishermen and farmers, and was a thriving fishing center. Decades later, rising sea levels and erosion in the Gulf island is almost completely absorbed, leaving nothing but a small piece of land in the sea. The very last house on the island Holland stood there for more than a century, until finally collapsed in October 2010.

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Holland Island was inhabited in the 1600s and was named after the first landlord Daniel Holland.



By 1850 the island already had a whole community of farmers and fishermen. In 1910, the island lived 360 people, thereby making the island one of the most densely populated islands of the Bay of Chesapeake.



In the heyday, the island had 70 houses, a few shops, a post office, a school with two teachers, church and cultural center. The island had its own baseball team and the doctor. Residents of the island lived off fishing oysters, herring and crabs.



By 1920 the island from the bay began to be exposed to wind and tidal erosion. Like other Chesapeake Bay island, island Holland consists mainly of clay and silt, not stone, so it is prone to erosion.



Residents of the island were trying to bring the stones to build a wall along the coast to stop the erosion, but because of the lack of necessary equipment and experience of their efforts ended in failure.



Most of the inhabitants of the island were forced to leave Holland Island, some dismantled their homes and transported them to the coast.



In August 1918 tropical storm swept over the island, virtually destroying the church and drove past the family in 1922. More and more houses disappeared under the water until there is only one of them.



Holland Island was abandoned and empty until 1995, when Stephen White, a Methodist minister and a former sailor, who grew up on the island, bought the house for $ 70, 000 and tried to keep his legacy by creating Conservation Society Islands Holland.



Over the next 15 years, White has spent about $ 150, 000 in an attempt to save the island by building walls of sandbags, wood and old barges.



Attempts by Stephen White passed in vain. In mid-October 2010 the house completely collapsed and turned into a heap of ruins.



For several months the water engulfed the ruins, and a year later the water is almost completely covered the island Holland.

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