Your Guide to Buying a Home in Easton, MD

Buying a Home in Easton, Maryland

Easton is located in Talbot County

Population: 10,000 Mythology and nostalgia have given us the All-American hometown that never was; a place where the sun is always bright, cookies are always coming out of the oven, the paint is always shiny, and the flowers are always in full bloom ...

Well! Easton is far more real than that!

Easton is a lively collection of about 10,000 individuals who love living in a small town that offers the best of many worlds; access to large metropolitan  areas like Baltimore, Washington, and Wilmington, good health care from a strong local hospital and medical community, the splendid Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries in their backyard, and an active local community that welcomes new ideas and enthusiasms.

Easton has deep historical roots; in 1711, the first courthouse for Talbot County established the site of the town and it has been the center of trade and government ever since. Since the earliest days, the town residents have been people who came to do business, participate in county government, and be a part of the community's future. Today's residents are no different; many have moved to Easton for the same mix of small town community life and economic opportunity that have been attracting people since the early eighteenth century. This is not a static, backwater group of people! Courtesy of Easton Business Management Association

Satellite photographs show an almost unbroken band of lights in an arc extending from Richmond, Virginia to Boston, Massachusetts. There are few places left to hide from the 70 Million residents of the Middle Atlantic States and the Northeast other than Maryland's fabulous Eastern Shore.

The Shore, as it is called by natives and newcomers alike, is the only rural, undeveloped enclave remaining in the urban northeast. The Chesapeake Bay and its many tidal tributaries defines the Shore with over 8,000 miles of pristine shoreline, quiet coves, and scenic bays. The Shore has been receiving ever increasing attention since the publication of James A. Michener's Chesapeake. The Chesapeake, which divides the Eastern Shore from the rest of the country, is the largest bay in the United States. The bay could well be described as dividing the "haves" from the "have-nots". Those fortunate enough to live on the Eastern Shore "have" a quality of life evocative of that of the 18th century, that those living elsewhere can only dream about.

The fortunate few who already live on the Shore are certainly not isolated from the pleasures of urban life. Talbot and Queen Anne's Counties, located in the mid-section of Maryland's Eastern Shore, are well known for the peace and tranquility afforded by their waterfront land and fine estates. The bright lights of the big city, however, are not far away: the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), the Inner Harbor (Baltimore), and the Hotel Dupont (Wilmington) are just a one and a half hour drive away over modern highways. Shore residents can shop in the Italian Market (Philadelphia) after a two hour fifteen minute drive or attend the Metropolitan Opera - just three and one-half hours drive away. There are few locations as central as the Eastern Shore.

Talbot County, Maryland is bounded on the west by the Chesapeake Bay; on the north by the Wye River and Queen Anne's County; on the east by the Tuckahoe River and Caroline County; and on the south by the Choptank River and Dorchester County. Access to Talbot Country is via US. Route 50, which runs north and south through Talbot County with Easton, the county seat, lying in the center of US. Route 50 between the county borders.

Talbot County
Today, Talbot County sets the pace for the life style and the social scene for the mid-shore area. A large nucleus of sophisticated property owners supports the well being of the Tidewater Inn, The Inn at Perry Cabin, the Memorial Hospital, the Talbot Country Club with excellent golfing greens and clubhouse, several fine yacht clubs, Hog Neck Golf Course (public), The Easton Club (Public), the YMCA, the Talbot County Community Center (including ice skating and curling rinks) the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, The Avalon Theater, the Academy Of the Arts, Tred Avon Properties, and many fine shops and restaurants.

Even more than the extensive social, cultural, and commercial infrastructure of Talbot County, the colonial village life style of Easton, Oxford, and St. Michaels has contributed to the constant influx of well heeled buyers of primary, vacation, and retirement homes. Talbot County real estate has always been in high demand.
Today, Talbot County is one of "the" addresses or places to live in the country. Oxford, a small town of 600, is regarded as one of the ten "best" places to live in the entire country. The county seat, Easton, is located in the central portion of the county near the head of the Tred Avon and Miles Rivers. Talbot County is bordered on the north by the Wye Rivers, the west by the Chesapeake Bay, the south by the Choptank River, and the east by the Tuckahoe River and Caroline and Queen Anne Counties. Talbot has an area of 261 square miles with over 600 miles of waterfront. This equates to over two miles of waterfront for every square mile of land. This extremely high ratio of water frontage has made Talbot highly desirable for waterfront living.

The principal towns are St. Michael's, 10 miles west of Easton on the Miles River, and Oxford, 10 miles southwest of Neavitt, Trappe, McDaniel, Claiborne, Sherwood, Wittman, Tilghman, and Cordova are small rural settlements that have not attained the residential status of Easton, St. Michael's, and Oxford. These three towns are located in a triangle with the central focal point being the Tred Avon River. It is on this river that the most expensive real estate is located and is the most desired location for residences.

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