The Traveler’s B & O Christmas Tree, a Holiday Tradition

(WoCCP) The tradition for kicking off the Christmas Season in Cecil County is the annual lighting of the “Holly Tree by-the-tracks.” The Baltimore & Ohio held the first public ceremony in 1948 when thousands of people gathered to ring in the season as lights from thousands of colorful bulbs on the evergreen softly illuminated the Jackson [Station], MD hillside. Continued

Link to the Cecil County Holly Tree Website.

Photos: MDRails