In 1901, the government took land from the Tolson family through eminent domain to build the Queen Anne's Railroad along what is now Piney Creek Road beside the Cross Island Trail. Part of what remains of the Wells E. Tolson farm lies to the right of the road. Wells E. Tolson, born in 1850, became a well-known Kent Island Prohibitionist and ran a grocery store in the present-day Amalfi Coast building in downtown Stevensville, built around 1900. He died of typhoid fever on July 23, 1896, before knowing that the railroad would pass through his farm. The property also includes the lost Tolson family burial site, referenced in official documents. In 1992, archaeologists from the Maryland Historic Trust found a small cemetery from the 1800s near an old house site, and in May 2000, before the Four Seasons at Kent Island Development Project, they discovered 2,035 historic artifacts and fenced the cemetery for protection during construction. Like many other graveyards on Kent Island, however, the headstones and remains later disappeared; in 2001, stones found in a hedgerow on the property, including one dated 1829, also vanished. A historic farmhouse once stood here but was torn down in October 2022 to make room for the Kent Island Crossing development. The loss of the Tolsons' land and burial ground is presented as part of a continuing pattern in which Kent Island's history has been displaced by development and modern construction.