Located neatly between activities like boating on the Pocomoke and hiking the cypress trails, Delmarva Discovery Center is the newest educational interactive museum highlighting points in the peninsula's history. From ancient to modern days, this is the place to go to see the story of Delmarva. With explorations like their life-size beaver-lodge exhibit, replica Native American wigwam, bird carvings by world-famous Ernie Muehlmatt (see this man's work; it's phenomenal!), and a 6,000 gallon aquarium recreating the underwater environment of the Pocomoke River, you're sure to come out learning a lot about the peninsula we love so much.

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How many belongings in your home contain any amount of steel? Nails in furniture, metal stove tops, even the staples holding together the pages of that report. Steel, the distant result of a long road of tasks, has been an unquestioned necessity for the activities of daily (human) life. Demand for this coveted metal is centuries-old, leading to the formation of communities where raw ores could be converted into a workable state: iron.

Furnace Town was one such community, located outside of what is now Snow Hill, Maryland, nestled in the woods near the Pocomoke River. The town and its iron-smelting furnace operated at full potential from 1828 to 1850.

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Vienna Maryland is also known for possessing a rare mother of pearl button factory which is still in working order. Tom Bradshaw, curator of the Vienna Heritage Museum, demonstrates its operation:

If the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum were to be described in one word, it would be "immersive." The first thing you need to know is this museum isn't confined to buildings, like a museum of art might be. We're talking about an 18 acre campus featuring Chesapeake Bay past and present. The fact they have their own library is a telling sign that this is not just a tourist attraction, but a place of historic preservation. The Host Our Coast team more than readily dove into the vast exhibits available at the CBMM.

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