Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Trappe, MD

Trappe is an incorporated town in Talbot County, Maryland, on the state's Eastern Shore.

Trappe was incorporated in 1827, and its name may have come either from the wolf traps once set in the area or from a Trappist monastery.

The town's motto is "19th Century Charm - 21st Century Progress."

Founding Father John Dickinson, known as the "Penman of the Revolution," was born in Trappe in 1732.

Trappe is also the birthplace of Frank "Home Run" Baker, the Hall of Fame third baseman of the Philadelphia Athletics.

Actor Robert Mitchum lived in Trappe from 1959 to 1965, and Army Brigadier General and military historian John S. D. Eisenhower lived there until his death in 2013.

Nathan "Uncle Nace" Hopkins, born in Trappe in 1831, organized the town's first Emancipation Day celebration in 1867 and led its parade until his death in 1900, founding a tradition honoring Maryland's emancipation of enslaved people on November 1, 1864.

Two historic houses in Trappe, Compton and The Wilderness, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

U.S. Route 50 runs through Trappe, linking it north to Easton, the Talbot County seat, and beyond to Washington, D.C., and Ocean City; Maryland Route 565 follows the old alignment of U.S. 50 through town.

White Marsh Elementary School, a Talbot County Public Schools campus on Lovers Lane in Trappe, serves the town's elementary students.