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Without Readers there is no News and no challenge to find Truth.
For those of you who never heard of Coltons Point, Maryland,
which is about 99% last check, I wanted to mention our town as part of a
tribute to you. From November of 2016 until October of 2017, a twelve-month period, the
CPT broke through the ONE MILLION readers barrier with 1,003,681 according to
Google statistics.
The latest count on readers since we started was over 3.5
million last time we checked. However,
one million in twelve months is not bad.
This only counts identifiable web sites and earlier statistical analysis
showed there could be an additional 40% from unidentified readers.
What makes this interesting is that to this day we have
never allow an advertisement to run in the newspaper, never collected a single
email address to sell to the world, and we allow anonymous comments to protect
the readers.
As for Coltons Point, it is a village of about 300 people on
the banks of the Potomac River about ten miles from the Chesapeake Bay. The Potomac is almost seven miles wide at
this point. Just offshore sits St.
Clement’s Island, the third landing site for colonists to America after
Jamestown and Plymouth Rock.
Here they landed in 1634, 384 years ago, but unlike the
other landings, this area did not disappear into obscurity by the end of the 1600’s. So today Coltons Point is the oldest continually occupied chartered
community in the history of Colonial America.
It was the first territory in the world to guarantee
religious freedom, the first landing of Catholics in America, the first Jesuits
in America, and the only colonial settlement to never fight with the Native
Americans.
The charter granted to the Calvert family by the King of
England gave them all the land from Southern Maryland to Philadelphia, and
nearly to New York City. So vast were
the holdings that the land for our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., was
given to the fledgling nation by the St. Clement’s manor owners.
Today it seems little has changed over time though we are
just 60 miles from the nation’s capital.
We have no street lights, no stop lights, no schools, no government of
any kind, no cops, no churches, no sidewalks, no sewers, no water, no road
drainage, no mall, no fast food, no diners, no hotels, no EMS, no fire company,
no gas stations, and no fiber optics.
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| Many Bald Eagles live in Coltons Point |
Most cell phones do not work because the only cell phone
tower several miles away was completed just a couple of years ago. Our phone system was installed in the 1950’s. For most of 400 years the people here were
watermen harvesting the fresh oysters, crabs, eels, and fresh and saltwater
fish since we are part of the Atlantic Ocean tidal basin with ocean tides and
salt water mixing with the fresh water.
The Potomac River is seven miles wide and nearly 100 feet
deep meaning it flows both directions at once during high tide. Sharks, submarines, and aircraft carriers
have passed by and British troops have captured this area a couple of times. This is the area where John Wilkes Booth
disappeared for a week after killing Lincoln and it is a place of miracles, mysteries,
and survival. From the riverbank you can
see across to Virginia to the birthplace of George Washington and birthplace of
Robert E. Lee.
In fact, you should read the articles I have written about
the mysterious past of Coltons Point and St. Clement’s Island (links at end of
this story).
Ironically, not a single reader of the Coltons Point Times
comes from Coltons Point. However, the
thousands of readers do come from the USA, United Kingdom, France, Russia,
China, India, Italy, Australia, Germany, Israel, Saudi Arabia, a total of over
100 countries of the world.
So, thank you and I hope you tell your friends about the
Coltons Point Times somewhere in America because we do not allow advertising
nor do we advertise.
Jim Putnam, Publisher
Google numbers for the recent twelve months.
Coltons Point Times Readers
November 2016
Pageviews: 39,590
December 2016
Pageviews: 31,076
January 2017
Pageviews: 122,125
February 2017
Pageviews: 87,047
March 2017
Pageviews: 114,094
April 2017
Pageviews: 88,289
May 2017
Pageviews: 100,146
June 2017
Pageviews: 119,442
July 2017
Pageviews: 52,623
August 2017
Pageviews: 93,873
September 2017
Pageviews: 99,862
October 2017
Pageviews: 55,514
Total 12 months 1,003,681
(November – October)
Article links about Southern Maryland history.
Southern Maryland and St. Clements Island History
Histories Mysteries - The Voyage of the Ark and the Dove
Histories Mysteries - The
Landing at St. Clements Island in 1634
https://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2015/06/histories-mysteries-landing-at-st.html
St. Clements Island and Manor - Four Centuries of
Interrupted History
St. Clements Prehistory Part 1 American Colonial History
St. Clements Prehistory Part 2 American Colonial History
Scenes from Coltons Point
The Miracle of St. Clements Island
Histories Mysteries - A Lighthearted View of the Pilgrims
Progress in Coltons Point
CPT Monarch Factoid - King's
Stuff Headlines
Histories Mysteries - The Story
of John Wilkes Booth, the Black Diamond, and St. Clement's Island
Histories Mysteries - St.
Clements Island - Coltons Point - and the mysterious 7th District in Maryland
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