Showing posts with label Cecil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cecil. Show all posts
Jan 26, 2025

Removal of old bridge piers completed at site of Amtrak’s new Susquehanna River Bridge

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  (Trains) An Amtrak contractor has completed the removal of 10 bridge piers dating to 1866 from the Susquehanna River, a required move in ...
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Dec 20, 2009

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

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(WoCCP) The tradition for kicking off the Christmas Season in Cecil County is the annual lighting of the “Holly Tree by-the-tracks.” The Bal...
Dec 14, 2009

The Honeymoon Express

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On Saturday, February 13th, the Historical Society of Cecil County will present a program titled "The Honeymoon Express: When the Marri...
Nov 11, 2009

Elkton Doughboy Monument

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(MDDVA) The World War I Doughboy Memorial stands in front of the Maryland National Guard Armory in Elkton. The Vermont marble memorial was d...
Oct 17, 2009

Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake

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Via Windows on Cecil County's Past (WoCCP)
Sep 27, 2009

Garrett Island area reopened to public

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(Baltimore Sun) - Part of Garrett Island is open to the public again. Suzanne Baird, the manager of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge,...
Sep 26, 2009

New Book About World War II Era Bainbridge Naval Football Team

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(WoCCP) - Wilbur D. Jones, Jr., the author of “Football! Navy! War! How Military ‘Lend-Lease’ Players Saved the College Game and Helped Win ...
Sep 21, 2009

George Read

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(Wikipedia) - George Read (September 18, 1733 – September 21, 1798) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle in New Castle Coun...
Sep 19, 2009

The Almighty Oyster

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See Window on Cecil County's Past for more information.
Aug 23, 2009

Old Jail Managed to Outlive Its Usefulness in Just 128 Years

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(WoCCP) - Twenty years ago, the old, shabby Cecil County Jail on North Street in Elkton was abandoned for the modern detention center that n...
Aug 15, 2009

August 15, 1790: John Carroll Becomes First Bishop of Baltimore

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(LoC) - On August 15, 1790, John Carroll became the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. The son of a wealthy Cat...
Aug 14, 2009

Mission to boost access to Garrett Island gaining

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(The Record) - Perryville's town commissioners are on a mission to get more public access to Garrett Island so people can see the island...
Aug 1, 2009

Cecil County Village of Sylmar Examined in New Book, "Edge Effects"

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(WoCCP) - A new title, Edge Effects: The Border-Name Place, by Dr. Robert D. Temple focuses on border towns. The author provides a fascinati...
Jul 5, 2009

Hold the mayo! When did crab cakes get so bland?

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There was a time in Harford County when corn on the cob came in two basic varieties: white or yellow. The yellow corn started disappearing f...
Jul 2, 2009

Chautauqua 2009 Coming to Cecil County in July

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(HSoCC) - ... On Friday the 10th, listen to Woody Guthrie celebrate the life of working people in his songs, poetry and prose. On Saturday t...
Jun 22, 2009

Live-in curators fix up historic, often run-down woodland houses

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(Baltimore Sun) - ... She is among 43 resident curators in an unusual program run by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources in partner...
Jun 16, 2009

Hearings begin on Conowingo Dam relicensing

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(Ægis) - The first local public meeting on the relicensing of Conowingo Hydroelectric Project drew a handful of people in Darlington Thursda...
May 30, 2009

May 30, 1947: Eastern Airlines Flight 605 Crashes Near Port Deposit

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(WoCCP) - Sixty-two years ago on a gorgeous Memorial Day, a DC-4 with 53-people on board suddenly plunged from the sky into a thick woods ou...
May 25, 2009

Austin Lane Crothers

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(Wikipedia) - Austin Lane Crothers (May 17, 1860 - May 25, 1912), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 46th Governor of M...
May 5, 2009

1918 Spanish flu epidemic killed more than 150 in Cecil County

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(Cecil Observer) - ... The Spanish flu that struck worldwide in 1918-19 is often cited as the deadliest outbreak of the disease in modern ti...