Editing Talbot County, Maryland (section)

===St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church===
St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, which still holds weekly masses, is recognized as the oldest [[Roman Catholic Church]] on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weeks |first=Chsristopher |url=https://archive.org/details/wherelandwaterin00week/page/41 |title=Where Land and Water Intertwine |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |year=1984 |isbn=0-8018-3165-2 |location=Baltimore |page=[https://archive.org/details/wherelandwaterin00week/page/41 41]}}</ref> Father Joseph Mosely, a [[Jesuit]], established the church in 1765 on a farm north of Easton in [[Cordova, Maryland|Cordova]]. St. Joseph Church was the second Catholic Church in Talbot County; a chapel at [[Doncaster Town Site|Doncaster]] was the first.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weeks |first=Christopher |url=https://archive.org/details/wherelandwaterin00week/page/42 |title=Where Land and Water Intertwine |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |year=1984 |isbn=0-8018-3165-2 |location=Baltimore, MD |page=[https://archive.org/details/wherelandwaterin00week/page/42 42]}}</ref>

The church had additions built in 1845 and in 1903 (the cloverleaf apse at the left where the altar is now). Father Mosley and other priests are buried under the church floor.

St. Joseph Church hosts an annual jousting tournament on the first Wednesday of August. The event has been held at St. Joseph for the past 142 years. The only time the event was canceled was in 1918, due to many of the riders' involvement in World War I.