Cecil County History & Genealogy Archive

On this page, you will find the Cecil County genealogy and history archive for a Window on Cecil County’s past.

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• Gas in Elkton: Illuminating the Town
• Gashouse Alley: A Street Opened and Closed
• The Rising Sun Train Station: The Final Chapter
• Hindenburg Airship Passed Over Cecil County
• Pure Oil Gas Station in Elkton
• Prison for Runaways on Bohemia Manor
• A Summer Heatwave in 1969
• Trouble on Route 40 — Library Talk
• Historic Union Bethel AME Church Recognized by the National Park Service
• James Bell, a Wealthy Conowingo Landowner
• Bell Manor at Conowingo
• The Elkton & Middletown Railroad
• From Providence Corner to Kenmore
• Toll for the Undertaker at the Susquehanna River Bridge
• The Enduring Mystery of an 1891 Cecil County Murder
• My Last Byline: Dot Clark Recalls Journey as a Reporter
• Covering Breaking News: Pan Am Flight 214 Crash
• Nuclear Attack Command Center Originally was the Scout Building
• A Final Goodbye to Chief Frank Muller
• Moving an Elkton Cemetery
• Airmail Plane Stopped at Elk Landing
• The Rising Sun Theatre — The Curtain Went Up
• The Underground Railroad in Cecil County – A Walking Tour in Cecilton
• Singerly Cottage
• Summer White House: Elkton & Georgetown Proposed
• Cecil Whig Building in Downtown Elkton
• Pleasant Hill, a Village in Northeastern Cecil County
• Mason-Dixon Line: WITF Interview
• The Last Blacksmith
• African American Newspaper Chronicled Cecil County’s News
• Historical Society Rededicates the Duke Log House
• Bald Friar Railroad Station
• Last Train to the Conowingo Railroad Station
• St. Basil’s Ukrainian Church
• The Constable is a Woman
• Rusty Brandon — Watching the Night & Waiting for the Dawn at Union Hospital
• Oblate Farthers of St. Francis de Sales Purchased Farm.
• Mason Dixon Line Creates Peculiar Prohibition Case
• Remembering Bob Phillips, Charlestown Community Leader
• Train Wreck Gives Halloween a Frightening Start
• Vietnam Draft Creates a Buzz in Elkton
• Elkton weddings talk explores Marriage Business Here
• 135 E. Main Street Serves as Hub for Arts & Culture
• George Reynolds Reflects on Passage of 100 Years
• Circus Park — The Elk River Indian Reservation
• North East Under Mayor Jack Johnson
• Remembering Skip Mahan’s Contributions to Emergency Services
• The Telephone Operators in Elkton
• Jacob Tome Mansion
• Army Jet Plane Crash Near Port Deposit
• Water Witch Fire Company
• Jackson Hall School
• Early African American Schools in Elkton
• Port Deposit Police Chief Horace Boddy
• Escaping the Heat in Cecil County
• Election Districts in Cecil County
• Howard’s Pond in Elkton
• On D-Day People Waited Anxiously for News
• COVID-19 Cases in Cecil County Compared to Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19
• The Cecilton Theatre
• The Warwick Hotel Operated by Samuel Gillespie
• Bay View – A Brief History
• C & D Canal Talk
• Life in the Past Lane at Rodgers Tavern & Perryville
• President Roosevelt’s Funeral Train
• Ellen Garrison Jackson, A Teacher at a Freedmen’s Bureau School
• First Women Serve on Cecil County Jury in 1947
• Elkton Television Station Broadcasts From Cecil County for First Time
• Women Voters Turn Charlestown Election
• Presidents’ Day — Many Came to Cecil County
• Cecil County Freedmen’s Bureau Teacher Stands Up for Civil Rights in 1866
• Cecilton Electric Light & Power Company
• Railroad Tracks on Ice on the Susquehanna River
• The Rising Sun Hotel
• North East Theatre
• Pivot Bridge, a Lost Cecil County Village
• Pinkerton Detectives Investigated Chesapeake City Murder in 1886
• Opposition to Daylight Savings Time in Cecil County
• The Firemen’s Plot at the Elkton Cemetery
• The Port Deposit Pool
• Camp Meeting, a Summertime Event
• Rising Sun, a Summer Resort
• Remembering Singerly Firefighter Roger McCardell
• Singerly Fire Company Painting — Call to Alarm — Centennial Painting
• Chesapeake City Elementary School – A Final Goodbye
• Tropical Storm Agnes Won’t be Forgotten in Cecil Countyy
• On Nov. 1, 1864, Enslaved Emancipated in Cecil County
• Crystal Beach Made Headlines Every Week in 1939
• The Last Two Civil War Soldiers
• Governor Hogan Pardons Victims of Lynching in Cecil County
• Saying a Final Goodbye to Chief Larry Storke
• Elkton Drive-in Hit by Blue Laws
• The Whistle Didn’t Blow for the Last Train to Rising Sun?
• Nurse Rose Suter, a Victim of the Spanish Flu
• Mary Maloney First Woman to Serve as County Commissioner in Maryland
• Remembering Claude “Zeke” Cornett
• Observing Thanksgiving During the Civil War
• Stealing an Election Was the Charge
• The Cecil County Lynching Memorial Blog
• An Octagonal School at Carter’s Mill.
• Cecil County Death Certificates Now Available Online
• Principal Helen Harris Opens the Levi Coppin School
• Effort to Save Levi Coppin School Continues as State Reopens Review Process
• Ice was a Summer Luxury
• The Birthplace of Confederate General William Whann Mackall: Correcting the Record, Again
• Remembering Cecil Whig Editor Don Herring
• Cecil County’s Oldest Firehouse
• Pharmacists and Drug Store Clerks Were Essential When the Spanish Flu Hit
• Guest Editorial: Cecilton’s Levi Coppin School Should be Saved
• Nurses were the Heroes of the Day When Spanish Flu Hit
• Public Health Officer Led County’s Fight Against the Spanish Flu
• Women Were the Caregivers During the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918
• Not the First Time Cecil County was Shut Down
• Cecil Grappled With the Spanish Influenza of 1918
• Pandemic of 1918 Shutdown Cecil County
• Horror at Childs Railroad Station
• Elkton’s First Police Car
• Dr. Richards’ Port Deposit Hospital
• Times Passes at the Cecil County Courthouse Corner in Elkton
• A Troubled Civil War Soldier — His Story
• A Fallen Mason Dixon Monument
• Remembering Chief McIntire
• The Pilot Town School
• Cecil County Canning Companies
• Red Point Beach
• Women in the Fire Service
• Martha Finley Joined the Singerly Fire Company in 1892
• The Fireman’s Lot at the Elkton Cemetery
• Bobby Kennedy’s Funeral Train in Cecil County
• Working to End Segregated Hospitals
• WSER — Playing the Tunes on Elkton’s Radio Station
• Historic Buildings in Cecil County
• End of Watch: Dispatcher Keith Sinclair Laid to Rest
• Labor Day Observed in Cecil County for the First Time
• Woodlawn Camp Meeting
• Sheriff Thomas Mogle
• Adams Floating Theatre Visited Cecil County
• Archaeologists Unearthed Free Black Community near Port Deposit
• Frenchtown Tavern
• Frenchtown, a Lost Village on the Elk River
• The Cecil County Fair in Elkton
• Cecil County and the Moon Landing
• The Elkton Doughboy Monument
• A Patriotic Fourth of July in Cecil County
• Here’s the Scoop for These Hot July Days: Ice Cream Goes Way Back in Cecil County
• Recalling Schools Days at George Washington Carver School
• Freedom Riders on Route 40
• George Potts, Elkton’s First Police Chief
• Cecil County’s Octagonal School
• The Cecil County Almshouse — A Place to Care for the Poor & Needy
• Country Roads in Cecil County
• Fallen North East Firefighter Remembered
• Singerly Fire Station – The First One
• William M. Singerly’s Elkton Stock Farm
• Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Show Airs on Maryland Public Television.
• Trojan Boat Company on the Elk River
• When Television Came to Cecil County
• Griffith AUMP Church and Cedar Hill
• Eva Muse Contributed to Understanding of County’s Past
• African American History of Cecilton
• George Washington Traveled Our Roads
• Anna Murray Douglass Visits Cecil County
• St. Basil’s Ukrainian Church in Chesapeake City
• Votes for Women
• Rising Sun Herald Ceases Publication
• Cecil County Postcards
• Cecil Whig Christmas Edition – 1905
• Zion, a 19th Century Village, in Northern Cecil County
• Cecil County History on Facebook
• Cecilton Chronicles by Mary Haggerty
• Rising Sun — A New Day is Dawning
• Cecil County Map – 1794
• Remembering Rebecca Phillips, a Preservationist and Civic Leader
• Preserving the Past in Charlestown
• J. J Newberry Department Store Brought Shoppers to Elkton
• Route 40 Opens in Cecil County
• Tokens for Your Work on the C & D Canal
• St. Augustine School
• President Kennedy Unveiled Mason Dixon Marker
• Union Hospital Nurses Served on the Battlefield During World War I
• Calvert, an Old Village near the Mason Dixon Line
• A Halloween Prankster’s Tradition in Rising Sun — The Outhouse
• Haunted Nights at the Cecil County Detention Center
• SAM GOLDWATER NAMED TO NATIONAL FIRE HERITAGE CENTER
• Mount Zoar, an African American Community Near Conowingo
• North East Firefighter to be added Memorial Wall
• Cecil County Lynchings – A Dark Chapter in the Past
• Labor Day in Cecil County
• St. Patrick’s Bicentennial Celebration Begins
• Cecil County’s Advantages in the Late 1920s
• First National Bank of North East Enhances Town in 1904
• Cecil County History
• The Last B & O Railroad Stationmaster At Childs
• World War II Refugees from Ukraine Arrived in Cecil County
• Jackson Hall School
• Lighthouses of the C & D Canal
• The Turkey Point Light Station
• Chesapeake City Dry
• Rodeo Earl Smith, a Legendary Cecil County Cowboy
• The Elkton Town Hall
• Elkton Was Proud of its Two Fire Engines, Hand-Pumpers Bought in Baltimore & Philadelphia
• Mease Adds to Understanding of United States Colored Troops in Cecil County
• When the Civil War Started – A Vital Civil War Crossroads
• Civil War Days on the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
• Cecil County School Desegregation
• Cecil County’s First Newspaper
• Remembering Triumph’s Home Front Defense Workers Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
• The Day the Railroad Bridge Crashed into the Susquehanna River
• Koterski Talks About An Early Pottery at Saint Mary Anne’s
• Cecil County’s First Newspaper
• Muller Led Cecil County Emergency Services into the Modern Era
• Senator Robert Kennedy’s Funeral Train Passes Elkton
• Cecil County History
• A 1927 Accident Takes Life of Harford County Fire Chief
• Eder on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
• The Great Rising Sun Train Robbery
• The Cecil County History Conversation Continues on Facebook
• History Lecture – “What Does Archaeology Tell Us About the Lenape?” by Dr. Jay Custer
• When Ice and Water Overflowed the Susquehanna River, the Media Descended on Port Deposit
• When Ice Jammed the Susquehanna River and Threatened Port Deposit Photographers Were Quick to Respond.
• When Ice Gorges Terrorized Port Deposit and the Susquehanna.
• On Labor Day: Remembering Those Who Died While Building the Conowingo Dam
• Remembering the Service of Sheriff Sam du Pont
• Hack’s Point: A Natural Spot for Summer Visitors
• The Boulden Ford Building Hummed With Activity of Auto Trade For Most of the 20th Century
• Stately Building Anchors Part of Downtown Elkton
• “Operation of 1865 – 1912” by Stella Graves, R.N.
• Thoroughly Modern Early 20th Century Nurses Meet the Old Civil War Surgeon
• The Graduates of the Union Hospital of Cecil County School of Nursing 1914 – 1926
• Nursing Careers for Young Ladies Offered by Union Hospital in 1911
• 94-Year-Old Relative of Officer Francis Tierney Killed in Line of Duty in 1915 Attends Wilmington Police Ceremony
• Dr. Helen Tierney Published Highly Acclaimed Women’s Studies Encyclopedia
• For Resisting Pennsylvania Liquor Agents, Sheriff Mogle Receives Gold Badge
• Citizens Kept Informed About Lincoln Assassination, In the Age of Instant Communications
• Border War Flares Up Over Cheap Maryland Booze
• An Orphanage on a Chesapeake City Hilltop Once Took Care of Dependent Children
• General Jones and the Suffragists Occupy Cecil County
• In Historic Election in Rising Sun, Women Vote for the First Time in Cecil County
• Remembering a Rising Sun Sailor Lost on the USS Maine
• The 1960s, a Decade of Protest — the Local Perspective
• Taking a Stand for Equal Treatment on the Mason Dixon Line in 1904
• A Susquehanna River Village That Vanished — Conowingo
• Perryville Railroad Site Accepted Into the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
• Sharing the Story — Remembering World War II, a Program at the Cecilton Library
• Halley’s Comet & Northern Lights Stimulated Interest in Astronomy for a Young Lady From Iron Hill
• Iron Hill was once a thriving village.
• On the Railroad to Providence
• Christmas Eve Stories from the Cecil County Police Blotter
• Meet Rosie the Riveter as History Comes Alive at Chesapeake City Library, Jan. 12
• Chang Woo Opens Chinese Laundry in Rising Sun
• Charlestown Volunteer Fire Company Deployed Two Boats in 1958
• It was a “once in a life-time” scene in Port Deposit – four Navy aircraft coming down the street.
• Chief Thomas McIntire Guided Elkton Police into the Modern Era
• A Snowy Day in Late Autumn – A Perfect Time for Photographs in Cecil County
• The Age of the Automobile Arrives in Cecil: 1st License Issued to Port Deposit Resident
• Sharing Cecil County’s Past
• Memorial Obituaries Moore, Tech. Sgt. Hugh F.
• Cecil County Airman Hugh Moore To Be Returned to Family and Buried With Full Military Honors
• On Borrowed Time: Solving a Cecil County Genealogical Mystery
• Steamer Carmania Served Elkton in 1916
• Insurance Survey Maps From Philadelphia Free LIbrary Show Details on Many of Cecil County’s 19th Century Mills
• Spotlight on the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
• President Taft Speaks to Crowd From Porch of Howard Hotel in Elkton
• Adding Cecil Kirk, a County Lawman, to the Sheriff’s Wall
• Rising Sun Historic Preservation Commission Hosts Civil War Weekend, Oct 3 – 5, 2014
• An Old House Research Question: When did the Pennsylvania Railroad Move the Dwellings
• Elkton Police Arrest of Ambassador From Iran Causes International Incident in 1935
• Cecil County Atlas of 1877 & Other Maps Available from Sheridan Library
• Station Agent at Childs Recalls 50 Years on the B & O Railroad
• Confederate General From Cecil County Featured in Jeff Shaara’s Latest Novel
• Harford and Cecil counties Described in 1807 Publication
• Become a Photo Historian: Learn to Identify and Preserve Your Family Treasures
• H. W. Cheyney, Cecilton’s Chevy Dealer
• Need an Ambulance in Cecil County in 1953, Call Ernie’s Cab Company
• John Denver, a Past President of the Maryland State Firemen’s Associaton, Talks to the Singerly Listening Station
• Singerly Firefighter Robert McKinney
• Links to High Quality Digital Content for Local & Family History Research in Cecil & Harford counties
• Diggins Works With National Park Service to Nominate Two Sites For Underground Railroad Listing
• Photographing an Execution
• CAB Accident Investigation Reports for Eastern and Pan American Airlines Crashes in Cecil County Available Online
• Singerly Listening Station Continues: An Interview With Chief John Turnbull (retired).
• Singerly Junior Officer Recalls Fire Company Working a Presidential Detail
• Singerly Listening Station Opens as Senior Fire Service Members Share Memories
• Video Overview Demonstrates Use of Helpful Cecil County Government Product, Cecil Maps
• Large Collection of Topographic Maps of Harford & Cecil County Available on USGS Historical Map Explorer
• Port Herman: An Annual Gathering Place for Vacationers
• Fire & Police Protective Services at Perry Point – The Early Decades
• Writing About the Slave Era, “The Unwritten History” Discusses Slavery, Emancipation, USCT & More
• An Old Schoolhouse Served Warwick’s African-American Community
• Chiefs Past and Present: 13th Commander Assumes Leadership Role in Elkton
• A Cecil History Short: Recalling Youthful Days Growing up in Elkton and the Family Business, the Howard Hotel.
• Marshall Purner Went From Big City Policing to Keeping the Peace in Cecil County
• Lee Wing, Elkton’s First Asian Resident, Opens Chinese Laundry
• In the Middle of Spring, it’s Cecil County Tourism & History Month
• Old 1919 Map and AAA Travel Directory Show the Route Through Elkton
• Spring Arrives at Lower Susquehanna Ferry and Rodgers Tavern
• Perryville Railroad Museum Volunteer Was Talking Railroading Today
• Final Patrol Boat on the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
• Theatre Newsreel Footage of 1947 Crash of Eastern Airlines Flight Outside Port Deposit
• The Elkton Banking and Trust Company
• Doodling in the Elkton Police Blotter as Nation Turns 200-Years-Old
• Doodling While Maintaining Cecil County’s Colonial Tax Records
• Remembering the Work of Cecil County’s Public Safety Communicators During National Public Safety Telecommunications Week
• Springtime at Rev. Duke’s Log House
• Conowingo State Police Patrolled Northeastern Maryland
• Video From This Afternoon’s Bootlegger’s Ball
• Duck & Cover at the Perryville LIbrary – April 8th — Cecil County prepared for Armageddon
• Columbia University Professor Talks About Biography of John Randel, Jr., Chief Engineer of the C & D Canal Comany April 12
• Chesapeake City Library Talk Examines Historical Evolution of Crime, Punishment, and Police Work in Cecil County – March 24
• Recalling an Elkton Landmark, the Howard Hotel
• Genealogical Research Guide for Cecil County
• Bootleggers’ Ball and Talk on Temperance and Prohibition in Cecil County April 5th
• Water Witch EMS Prepares to Mark 50 Years of Service
• To Drink or Not Drink: Program Examines Colorful Days of Prohibition, Speakeasies, Bootleggers and Bathtub Gin
• Severe Thunderstorm Moving In on Rev. Duke’s Log House
• Archeological Society of the Northern Chesapeake to Present the War of 1812 Battle of Caulk’s Field on March 12
• Conveyances, Metes & Bounds, Deeds, Mortgages and Much More Discussed at Old House Research Workshop
• William Singerly Brought Prosperity To Cecil
• Singerly Pumper, a New Hale
• In New Talk Kilby Examines Additional Aspects of The 19th Century Fair Hill
• Cecil County Curious?
• Cecil and Harford County Newspapers Available Online at Maryland State Archives
• Reed’s A.U.M.P. Church in North East on a February Day
• Snowman Greets Hospital Visitors As Major Winter Storm Clears Out
• Milt Diggins Talks About the Underground Railroad at Cecilton LIbrary on Feb. 18h
• Researching the History of an Old House in Cecil County presented on March 1st.
• Society Genealogist Curates the Flight 214 Remembrance Archives
• Catching a Few Rays of Sun on a Short Winter Day in Elkton
• Lesniak Promotional Video Promotes Historical Society Services
• More Historic Cecil County Newspapers Available from Maryland Archives
• History Comes Alive in February at Cecil County Public Library Branches
• New System Hastens Response of Perryville Volunteer Fire Company, in 1953
• Spring is Just Around the Corner in Elkton
• Singerly Replaces Horse-Drawn Units With Motorized Fire Trucks
• The January Freeze in Elkton
• Deep Freeze on the Susquehanna River
• Jo Ann Examines the Bitterly Cold Winter of 1852 in this Video Presentation
• Chief Speck Slaughter Commanded Major Incidents
• On a Long Ago Snow Patrol, Collaring the Snowman
• Freight Train Rumbles Past Quiet Elkton Station During January Snow Storm
• Doughboy and Historic Old Armory Have Seen Many Wintry Blast
• A Snowy January Day in Elkton
• Communist Might Have Infiltrated Cecil County Law Enforcement, Congressman Suspects in 1947
• Early Black Methodism on Delmarva Subject of Talk on Feb. 1st.
• Cecil County Historic District Commission Works to Protect Historic and Architectural Resources
• Old Postcards, Photographs, Newspapers, and Books Available at 2014 Paper Americana Show
• Archeological Society of the Northern Chesapeake Sponsors Kilby Talk on Fair Hill on Jan. 8th.
• Emily Kilby Talks About Tracking Down Local History at Fair Hill
• Elkton Digs Out From Early January Snowstorm
• Last Class Graduates from George Washington Carver High School
• Undergraduate Thesis Examines the Cecil County School Integration, 1954-1965
• Remembering a Civil War Veteran from Cecilton, George Douglass of the USCT
• The Lost Histories of Long Abandoned Properties Examined in January 4th Lecture
• On the Longest Night of the Year, Lights on the Conowingo Dam Glow in Gathering Darkness.
• Water Witch Fire Company’s Station 7 Sparkled With Holiday LIghts on the Weekend Before Christmas
• Attractive Trade Cards Advertised Cecil County Products in the Late 19th Century
• PowerPoint: Pan Am Flight 214 Memorial Presentation
• Centuries Old Houses Wait on Winter at the top of the Elk River
• Flowers, Notes and Wreaths Placed at Crash Site
• The Holly Tree by the Tracks, A Maryland Christmas Tradition
• Singerly Remembers the Family Members of Flight 214
• Flight 214 Remembrance Program Goes on at Fire Station Despite Surprise Wintry Blast of Snow and Ice
• Historical Society & Singerly Fire Company Greet the Families of Flight 214
• Morning Call: “Remembering the Souls of Flight 214”
• NBC 10 News: Plane Crash Half A Century Ago
• Oral Historians to Record Generation of Memories About Crash of Flight 214 in Elkton.
• Details Announced for Flight 214 Remembrance Program on Dec 8, 2013
• Society Talks History and Economic Development at Chamber of Commerce Meeting
• Cartographer Applies Modern Methods to Examine the Philadelphia Campaign in Dec. 7th Talk
• Remembering the Fallen: Three Cecil County Firefighters Made Ultimate Sacrifice
• Fifty Years Ago Cecil County Joined the Nation In Expressing Shock and Sadness at News of the Assassination of President Kennedy
• Kennedy Highway Changed Cecil County
• A Firefighters Final Call: Captain David Barr Laid to Rest With Full Fire Department Honors
• Saying Farewell to a Fallen Cecil County Firefighter
• Images from the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of Cecil County
• Autumn Beauty in Cecil County
• Autumn in the northeastern corner of Maryland on the Pennsylvania and Delaware Lines
• Annual Historical Society Meeting Honors Lucia Demond & Audience Gets Involved In Living History Program
• WDEL Radio News Journalist Covers Breaking News about Elkton Plane Crash
• Last Survivor of the Battle of Baltimore Was From Cecil County
• History on Demand: New Audio Tour Gives Modern Access to Port Deposit History
• Additional Arrangements Announced for Flight 214 Remembrance Program
• Maintaining Water Access to the Head of Navigation at North East
• After Nearly A Half-Century on the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, Retiree Mulls Over Changes
• Trains Are Gone on the Octoraro Branch, But Relics of the Railroad Age Remain
• Sprecher Shared Elkton’s 1960s Story in an Engaging Talk
• Remembering Dr. James Johnson, a respected Cecil County Physician
• Mapping the Elk River and Other Waterways
• Big Elk Creek Once Thrived With Activity in Elkton
• They Say There Are Ghosts in the Old Cecil County Jail
• The Old Perryville Railroad Station Still Bustles With Activity As Conductors Shout All Aboard and Fast Acela’s Rush Past
• Historical Society Digitizes Cecil County Civil War Bounty Payment Ledger
• Harvest Moon Rising Over the C & D Canal
• The Flickr Commons Has Old Maryland Postcards
• Vietnam Mailbag at the Rising Sun Library Sept. 17th
• Enjoying the Past in Charlestown’s Historic District
• Sprecher Takes Audience Back to a Special Time and Place – Elkton & Cecil County in the 1960s
• New Exhibit and Programs Recall Cecil County in the 1960s
• 911 Sure Makes It Easy: Phone Book in 1950s Lists 11 Cecil Co. Numbers for Reporting an Emergency
• Hagley Digital Archives Contains Digital Text & Image to Help Cecil County Researchers
• The British Are Coming to Cecil County Again: Revolutionary War Re-enactment at Mount Harmon
• Society Volunteers Release Schedule for Free Humanities Programs of County-Wide Interest for 2013-14 Season
• President Kennedy’s Visit to Dedicate Interstate Highway Wasn’t His First Trip to Cecil
• Remembering President Kennedy in Cecil County in Nov. 1963
• Now that the ’60s Are History . . . A Video Slideshow From that Decade on the Cecil History Youtube Channel
• Society’s Final Schedule for Winter Speakers’ Series Includes Many New and Exciting Talks
• Nightly Shows at the Cecil Theatre in Cecilton
• Old Cecil County Books for Family & Local History Research Available Online from Free Digital Libraries
• Society Prepares Winter Speakers Series: Elkton in the 1960s, the Past that is All Around Us, Prohibition and More
• Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collection Contains Rare Cecil County B & O Railroad Images
• Juicy Kaplan for Sheriff
• The “Howl Prowl” on a Saturday Evening At Fair Hill NRMA
• At the Milk Bar: A 1960 Advertisement
• The Cecil Farmers Telephone Company Was Expanding
• Eight New School Buses for Cecil County
• The Oldest & Newest Firefighting Apparatus in Elkton in 1966
• Serving the Long Distance Line in Elkton
• The Attractions of Summertime: The Port and Frenchtown Pools
• Governor Dedicates Augustine Herman Highway
• Chesapeake City Town Commissioners & Mayor in 1956
• Online Historical Maps of Cecil County Help Researchers
• Galena Fire Company Launches Ambulance to Provide Quick Service in Cecilton and Galena Area.
• An Ideal Day for Visiting Interesting Spots Along the C & D Canal
• Calamity Jane Arrives in Cecil in 1953.
• Someone Asked: What is the History of the Building in Back of the Old Jail
• County Building Basks in Glow of Evening Sun on a Friday Night in August
• Twenty Year Old Elkton Radio Station’s News Special Examined the Crash of Flight 214
• Freedom Riders Arrive on Route 40 in Northeastern MD as CORE Works to Integrate Route 40
• Chesaeake City Announces Plans to Double Size of Fire Station in 1966
• Freedom Seeker & USCT from Cecilton’s Final Resting Place in Woodstown
• For The Elkton Drive-In Theatre’s 3rd Anniversary, Dusk to Dawn Shows in 1961
• Additional Plans Announced for Remembrance Program on 50th Anniversary of Elkton Plane Crash
• Video on President Kennedy Dedicating I-95 on Nov. 14, 1963
• The Drive-in Theatre Comes to Elkton
• The George Washington Carver Graduating Class of 1961
• Curator Asks for Help in Getting Back to the 1960s in Cecil County
• The Heat Was on in Elkton Today
• An All too Real Nightmare — A Halloween to Remember in 1962
• Cecil County Civil Defense Prepared for Doomsday
• Cecil’s History & Genealogy Library Helps Media Outlets Covering the County
• Storm Clouds Over Elkton
• Four Dispatchers Juggle Emergency Calls at Fire Headquarters in 1967
• Volunteers Hard at Work in the Cecil County History and Genealogy Library This Weekend Waiting on Patrons & Preparing Talk About Elkton in 1960s
• Society Seeks Information on Civil War Chaplain Detained at Libby Prison
• An Old Elkton Weathervane Knows Which Way the Wind is Blowing
• The Gilpin Building Anchors a Corner in Downtown Elkton
• The Cecil County “Library on Wheels”
• Cecil County New Deal History Found on WPA Today
• Singerly Station 14 Shines on the Last Day of Spring 2013
• St. John’s United Methodist Church Shines on a Fine Day As Spring Fades to Summer
• Meet Local Auithors at Elkton Central Library , June 22
• The Sassafras River Drawbridge in 1968
• Passage of Centuries Transforms the Land at Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area
• Cecil County Public Safety Oral History Project Continues With Additional Interviews
• Washington Post: 45 Years After RFK’s Death, Recalling the Kennedy Funeral Train in Cecil County
• Story of Former Cecil County Slave Who Escaped on Underground Railroad Told in New Program in Salem County, NJ
• Evening Arrives at Singerly Fire Co., Sta., 13 in Elkton
• Amish Carriage-Maker Restored Two Hand Pumpers Nearly 30 Years Ago For Fire Company
• Cecil County Sheriff’s Office Staff Lines Up For Inspection in July 1967
• Sheriff Mogle Outlines the Minimum Needs for Cecil County Law Enforcement in 1967
• Welcome to Chesapeake City
• Cecil County’s First Aerial Unit Arrived in Elkton in 1892
• Cecil County Monument Honors Law Enforcement Officers Killed in the Line of Duty
• Elkton Police Are Doing a Fine Job But Could Use Some Equipment
• A Substantial 19th Century Brick Building Anchors a Corner in Downtown Elkton
• Spring Time at the Lower Susquehanna Ferry & Rodgers Tavern
• Footsteps in History — War of 1812 Walking Tour This Sunday in Charlestown
• North East’s American La France
• In An Old Fire Service Tradition, Singerly Dedicates New Station with Housing Ceremony
• All is Quiet at Retired Fire Station
• Singerly’s Listening Station to Tap into Stories About the Past Today
• Port Deposit Heritage Hosts An Evening With Dr. Beanes – A War of 1812 Living History Presentaton
• Robert M. Walmsley Elected Sheriff
• Era Ends in 1963 as Rising Sun Unplugs Telephone Switchboard
• Relics From Another Age of Firefighting Getting Ready for Station Dedication
• Perry Point Contains Architectural Gems From 18th Century
• Tradition and Technology Converge in Civil War Exhibit
• Cecil Guardian: Civil War Comes to Life at Society
• U of DE History Majors Crowdsource a Civil War Chaplain’s Diary
• Sold Out War of 1812 Walking Tour Returns to Charlestown in May
• War of 1812 Celebration at Elk Landing Includes Living History Programs & Candle Light Tours
• The First Alarm: Singerly Oil Painting Shows Elkton Firefighters Answering the Call in 1892
• Old Elkton Log House Looks Fine on an Early April Morning
• SHA Archaeologist’s Blog About War of 1812 Shares Reports on Fort Hollingsworth at Elk Landing
• Exhibit Examining the Civil War in Your Backyard Opens April 6th
• Waiting for Spring on the C & D Canal
• A Snowy Spring Monday in Cecil County
• Historical Society Aids Columbia University Professor Writing Book About John Randel, Jr., the Chief Engineer of the C & D Canal
• Civil War Diary Goes Digital as Historical Society Teams Up With University of Delaware
• Cecil County Recognizes Historical Society as Tourism Partner of Year at Annual Awards Breakfast
• “Choose Ye This Day!” Cecil County & The Civil War Exhibit Opens April 6
• Lecture at Mount Harmon: Black Patriots & Loyalists & War of 1812
• Rising Sun Library Hosts Local History Program: The Skirt and Stocking Clad Soldier: Women Join the Military in World War II
• Fire Towers Once Provided Early Warnings in Cecil
• Helping With HBO Video Documenting Passage of RFK’s Funeral Train
• Cecil County Genealogists Can Aid Family History Research Even If You Trail Takes You Far Beyond the County
• Phase I Underwater Archaeology Survey: The British Incursion into the Upper Elk River
• State Underwater Archaeologist to Discuss War of 1812 Maritime Archaeology at Historical Society on April 13.
• Remembering 1963 in Cecil County
• Meet the First Ladies in a Program at Cecilton Library on March 5th.
• Singerly Acquires New Cadillac Ambulance in 1952
• Kilby to Talk About Forgotten Fair Hill on March 9th
• Remembering Cecil County Civil Rights Leader McKinley Scott
• Water Witch Firefighters Graduate From Basic Fire Training Course in 1952
• Whig Asks – Do You Remember the Rising Sun Baseball Team in 1904
• McKinley Scott; Cecil County Civil Rights Leader: A program at the Library on Feb. 12th
• Stealing Freedom on the Line to be examined in Talk at Society on March 2nd.
• Elkton’s Early Police Chiefs
• Singerly Replaces Horse-Drawn Units With Motorized Fire Trucks
• Snow Blankets Scotchman Creek & Hacks Point
• Dr. Langley to Discuss War of 1812 Maritime Archaeology at Society on April 13.
• Vietnam Mailbag, a Program at the Historical Society on Feb 2nd.
• Historical Society Lecture on Mason Dixon Line Draws Overflow Crowd
• Bob Hazel Shares Local History & Creative Works on the Blog Whimsical Tales & Honorable Tributes
• Winterfest of Lights Beautifully Illuminates Chesapeake City and the C & D Canal
• Snowy Saturday Amplifies the Beauty of the Big Elk Creek
• A Wintery, Snowy Saturday Along the Mason Dixon Line
• Bishop Levi J. Coppin’s Autobiography Details Life in Cecil County Around the Time of the Civil War
• Society Members to Receive First 2013 Issue of Inkwell Soon
• Papers of Cecil County School Supt. Morris W. Rannels Available at McDaniel College
• Snow Falls on Cecil County on Christmas Eve
• The Church Spires of Elkton, Silent Sentries of Time
• Cecil Co. Civil Rights Leader McKinley Scott Subject of Program at Perryville Library
• Notes from The Elkton Police Blotter
• From Weather to Crimes, Police Blotters Give Glimpse of Bygone Elkton
• Holiday Open House at 18th Century Perry Point Mansion Continues Saturday Evening
• Society Launches Digitization Campaign to “Save Our Newspapers”
• Remembrance Program Planned to Mark Fiftieth Anniversary of Elkton Plane Crash.
• On 250th Anniversary: Mason Dixon Line Talk Examines the Story of the Boundary
• Old Postcards, Photographs, Newspapers, and Books Available at Paper Americana Show on Jan. 26
• On An Old Pike That’s Seen The Passage of Many Frosty Seasons, Winter Is Coming On
• Civil War Living History Program Shares Story of Private Elbert of the United States Colored Troops
• Mease Presents Cecil College Course Examining County’s Role During Civil War
• Plan for old jail moves ahead as new proposal saves 1870’s structure
• Beer Is Back They Shouted as They Raised a Glass to Prohibition’s Death Knell
• George Reynolds Honored For Digging the Past
• Observance at North East United Methodist Church to remember devastating blaze from a century ago
• Bullfrog, A Lost Cecil County Village
• Historical Society’s Winter Speakers Series Continues With Vietnam Mailbag, a USCT Living History Program and More
• Elkton Police Oral History Project Gets Underway
• Elkton Police Officers Get Together — Share Stories of Nearly a Half-Century
• Mt. Harmon Program: The Architecture of Taste: Building & Cooking in 18th Century Kitchens
• Memorial Remembers Victims of Pan American Plane Crash in Elkton
• Private Elbert of the USCT Shares Stories of Civil War Struggles During Living History Program Dec. 1.
• Tales the Tombstones Whisper, A Talk Saturday at the Historical Society.
• As Dark Clouds From Hurricane Sandy Slowly Clear Out, Old Fixtures in Elkton’s Skyline Stand Tall After Storm
• Society’s Annual Meeting to Honor Archaeologist George Reynolds and Hear Talk About Baseball.
• With Hurricane Sandy Knocking At Our Door, A Quick Look at Some Storms from the Past
• Triumph Fire Department Protected the Munitions Plant During World War II
• Tales the Tombstones Whisper Focus of Talk at Historical Society on Nov. 3rd.
• Cecil College Offers Genealogy Course For Those Just Starting on Family History
• Archaeological Society Presents Lecture: Little Guns on the Big Elk: Discovering Elkton’s War of 1812 Fort
• Pvt. Elbert of the USCT, Tales Tombstones Whisper, and Vietnam Mailbag Featured in 2012-13 Speakers Series
• Kilby to Speak on Forgotten Fair Hill on Nov. 10th
• Photos from Archeaological Society 2012 Fieldschool at Elk Landing
• Results of the 2012 Archaeological Investigation at Elk Landing — Presentation, Oct. 10th
• ECLIPSE WIN BACK STATE 19th CENTURY BASE BALL TITLE
• Great Day of 1864 Base Ball Promised as Maryland State Championship Comes to Cecil County on Sept. 30th
• Oct. 10th Meeting of Archaeological Society Presents Findings From Search for War of 1812 Fort at Elk Landing
• Bainbridge’s Impact on Cecil County Examined in Rising Sun Library Program, Oct. 3
• War of 1812, Mason-Dixon Line, Nature Walks, & Colonial Kitchens Featured in New Speakers Series at Mount Harmon This Fall
• Searching for Curators to Care for Historic Houses in Cecil and Harford Counties in Exchange for Lifetime Leases
• Celebrate 150th Anniversary of the Civil War as Battle Returns to Rising Sun, Oct. 6 & 7
• From Love to War – Cecil County and WWII at Rising Sun Library, Oct. 18th
• Two Presentations on Recent Archaeological Fieldwork at Elk Landing Scheduled
• 1st Annual Cecil County Genealogy Symposium: “A Toolkit for the 21st Century” — Oct. 6th
• Mother Nature Brews Up a Line of Thunderstorms as Dark Clouds Gather Over C & D Canal & Chesapeake City
• The Hundreds of Cecil County
• Pin Some History: New Collaborative Picture Archive Opens a Virtual Window on the Past
• Libby Prison Minstrels Perform Sept 22 at Big Elk Chapel
• Port Deposit Town Council Member Calls for Dissolution of Historic District Commission
• History & Nature Tour at the Landing on Sept. 22
• Cecil County Emergency Responders Say Goodbye to Rosemary Culley, One of Their Own
• Remembering Rosemary Culley’s Pioneering Contributions to Emergency Services
• CARDIN, MIKULSKI ANNOUNCE $2 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDS TO COMPLETE C&D WESTERN PORTION OF C& D TRAIL
• Photos From Popular War of 1812 Walking Tour
• Sold Out Tour Strolls Through War of 1812 History
• Acting Out History for Lantern-Lit War of 1812 Walking Tour in Charlestown
• Know Anyone Who Needs a Used Fire Engine?
• Mease Offers New Course on the Civil War at Cecil College
• Cecil Guardian Article Highlights 200th Anniversary of War of 1812 Walking Tour in Charlestown
• Cecil Guardian Article Highlights 200th Anniversary of War of 1812 Walking Tour in Charlestown
• Holt Collections Fills In Gaps in Cecil County History
• Cecil County’s Oldest Incorporated Town Has Well Maintained Historic District
• War of 1812 Walking Tour Steps Off From Wellwood Yacht Club in Charlestown on Aug. 12
• Walking Tour Shares Cecil County’s War of 1812 History
• The Cry of the British Are Coming Disrupts the Payment of Taxes in Charlestown in 1813
• An Old Elkton House of Worship Celebrates 150th Anniversary
• So What Do You Do With An Old Jail?
• While Debating Role of Historic Districts to Protect Old Buildings, Attempt to Change Regulation Fails in Vote After Vote.
• National Public Radio Show Sponsored by Virginia Foundation Humanities & U of VA. Visits Elkton For a Show
• Cecil County Arts Council Gala Makes Elkton’s Main Street a Destination for Hundreds As Museum On Main Street Exhibit Opens
• Was there a Cecil County Jail ghost? Some Deputies Thought So
• Developer Interested in Old Cecil County Jail Asks Elkton for Financial Considerations and Change in Zoning Ordinance
• “Footsteps From the Past: Cecil County During the War of 1812” Walking Tour Coming Aug. 12
• Lots of Laughter and Learning at Chautauqua This Afternoon as Rosalie Stier Calvert Delighted the Audience
• Francis Scott Key Talks to 250 People About the War of 1812; Programs Continue This Evening
• Elkton Officials to Hear Request on July 12 to Convert Old Jail into Apartments
• Cecil County remembers Hurricane Agnes
• Man Marries at Site of Pan American Plane Crash in Elkton
• The Marrying Clerk Replaces the Marrying Minister in Elkton
• Elkton & The War of 1812: The Sign Has the Story
• Cecil Whig Editorial: Elkton Is Fighting For its Future
• A Serene Mooring in Historic Anchorage Basin in Chesapeake City
• Journey Stories: A Musical Journey: The Life of Ola Belle Reed
• The Ukrainian Migration to Chesapeake City, July 17
• World’s Most Recorded Drummer, Bermard Purdie’s Musical Journey From Cecil County Childhood to International Fame
• Dream Big: Untold Stories of Cecil County — July 16, 2012
• From Russia to Cecil County: An Extraordinary Family Journey — July 16, 2012
• June Meeting of Elkton’s Historic and Architectural Review Board Cancelled
• As Search for War of 1812 Forts on Elk River Goes On, A Young Man Recalls Visiting the Place 100 Years Ago
• Affordable Housing Group to Present Plans for 140 Year Old Jail in Downtown Elkton
• Cecil County’s Last Civil War Soldier Passed Away 75 Years After Conflict Ended
• The Smithsonian’s Journey Stories Coming to Cecil County July 13
• Maryland and the War of 1812 – Living History Performances Coming to Cecil County in July
• Cecil County’s World War II Generation Remembered in Oral History Project
• Keep Up With Cecil County History on Twitter
• Archaeologist Search For War of 1812 Fort at Elk Landing
• Archaeologist Bring New Life to Elk Landing
• After Decades of Legal Wrangling Elkton Marriage Mill Started Grinding a Little Slower
• West Nottingham honors man who fought for kidnapped girls
• Wright’s A.M.E Has Been a Part of Elkton’s History Since the 19th century
• Archeological Society of Maryland Field School Opens at Elk Landing This Weekend
• Rochambeau in Elkton
• Historical Society of Delaware Tour Explores C & D Canal History on June 16
• The Samples Provide a Peek Into The Past — A Time When the Enemy Was On Our Shore During the War of 1812
• Cecilton Elects First Town Board in 1864
• Elkton and Port Deposit Issued Paper Money During the Civil War
• Clouds Break For Lunch Over Elkton
• Revisiting a Historic Moment As Colonial Spirit Hits Elkton for 200th Anniversary
• Elkton Prepares to Honor Its Roots For Its 225th Anniverary
• Reception Opening Important New Civil War Collection and Honoring the Donor, Dr. McCall, Takes Place June 2
• North East Police Pioneer Law Enforcement’s Involvement in Ambulance Service
• Let You Fingers Do The Walking Through The Phone Book When Doing Research
• Singerly Adds “Heavy-Duty Pumper” to Department in 1952
• Sixty Year Old Fire Truck Returns to Singerly
• Exploring the Past That’s All Around Us in Cecil County – Looking for Relics Along the Octoraro Line
• Defenders Day Returns to Elk Landing on April 28 as Judge Sample Reminisces About British Attack on Elkton
• Police Kept Busy Fielding Calls About Unidentified Flying Objects
• Port Deposit Steam Engine Rushed to Havre de Grace To Help Save City From Conflagration
• Elkton Eclipse Base Ball Team Opens 2012 Season at Terrapin Station Winery on April 22
• Talk Explores the Era When the Honeymoon Express Rolled Into Elkton, Bringing Cupid’s Wedding Business To Town
• Underground Railroad Conference to Feature Talk by Local Historian About Elkton Slave Catcher
• Elk Landing Opens 62-Acres of Park Land to Public
• Opening a Window on History: A Letter Provides a Personal Glimpse on the War of 1812
• As Gas Price Hits All Time High in Cecil County, 1970s Energy Crisis Recalled
• A Night on the Town: Upper Bay Museum Honors Its Founders on May 19
• Let the Research Begin — 1940 Census Available on the Web at a Number of Sites
• An Aged Citizen From Centuries Ago Still Promoting Cecil County Tourism & Heritage
• North East Lockup Helped Keep Wayward Types on Straight and Narrow
• Journeys: Telling Your Story – A Workshop on Oral History, Saturday, March 31
• Cooking on the Bay: Now and 300 Years Ago, a Program at the LIbrary March 31
• The Civil War Invades Perryville Library on April 14
• It Wasn’t Always Free to Cross the Susquehanna at Conowingo
• Hear About “Return to Hollingsworth Farm” In a Talk on Archaeology Wednesday
• Old 18th Century Buildings Prepare to Welcome Yet Another Spring
• ERICA JESONIS AND CECIL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS “MOVER AND SHAKER” AWARD FROM LIBRARY JOURNAL MAGAZINE
• County’s First Modern Aerial Truck Put in Service in 1966
• Historical Society Announces Addition of Civil War and 19th Century Manuscripts to Research LIbrary
• Archaeological Society of Northern Chesapeake to Sponsor Summer Field School in Cecil County
• Rachel Parker Kidnapping Case to be Examined in Chester County Parks Program
• Video Documentarian Examines Historical Society and the County’s Heritage
• “From Triumph and from Cecil County, Happy Landing Warrick,” A Pioneering Aviator Served With the Tuskegee Airmen
• Roses at the Door Outside Cecilton in 1966
• It’s Over and Out and 10-22 on Codes Found in Piece of Ephemera from Weaver’s Liquors.
• Board Struggles to Save Bainbridge Museum
• The McCool Armory, one of Elkton’s Historic Properties, Declared Surplus
• Digging Into the Past Before the Interstate Highway Moved In
• Smithsonian’s Journey Stories Brought to Cecil County by Arts Council, Library and Historical Society
• Historical Society Announces Online Finding Aid For Judge McCauley Diaries, a 47-Year Chronicle of 19th Century Cecil County
• High School Students Perform Scenes From the War of 1812
• When the Honeymoon Express Rolled Into Elkton, Bringing Cupid’s Wedding Business To Town
• Fire Station Addition Illuminates Damp Winter Night
• Frenchtown: April 29, 1813 – Cecil County
• Watching the Night And Waiting for the Dawn in Elkton
• Grand Day for Elkton, When 2nd Pumper Doubles Size of Firefighting Force
• Relic From 1818 Proudly Displayed at Fire Company Museum in Elkton
• Old Photograph, Postcard, Manuscript and Collectibles Dealers Swarmed Toward Elkton This Afternoon
• Preserving Your Family Heirlooms at the Perryville Library — Jan. 31st.
• To Keep Up With Local History Like the Cecil Co. Historical Society on Facebook
• At the Potters Field, a Snowy Day
• Research: It’s a New Ball Game as Free Websites Provide Digital Copies of Wills, Maps, Newspapers, and Photos
• Snow Days of Yesteryear: Horse Pulled Plow Struggles to Clear Elkton’s Main Street
• New Arcadia Title Tells History of Perryville Through Photographs
• Library Hosts Lecture on Cecil County African Americans in the Civil War
• The Civil War in Our Backyard – Programs at the Library in February
• Video Documentarian Examines the Work of Cecil County Waterman
• Sylmar Takes Its Name From Two States
• The Four Corners in Cecilton in the Late 1930s
• Waiting for the Snow to Fly
• The Civil War In Our Backyard
• 2012 Paper Americana Show in Elkton Features Over 30 Collectibles Dealers
• The Traveler’s B & O Christmas Tree, a Holiday Tradition
• Rising Sun Greets the Automobile Age in Cecil County
• A Thanksgiving Greeting From 1907
• Elkton’s Old Fire Bell Tapped Out Many Alarms
• Singerly Fire Company’s Ahrens Fox & Hale Pumpers
• Historical Society Fills Vital Role as County Archives
• Mother Nature Plays a Little Trick on Cecil County as Winter Arrives Early
• Free Antique Appraisals Featured at CCPL Friends Annual Meeting
• Cecil County Public Library Celebrates National Friends of Libraries Week Oct. 16-22
• Northeastern Maryland Archaeological Society Talk Puts Spotlight on 30 Years of Digs at Elk Landing
• Archeological Society of Northern Chesapeake to Hear about Findings From Archeological Investigations at Elk Landing
• North East Faces the “Fire Fiend” in 1911
• North East Organizes a Fire Company in 1901
• The Old Cecil County Courthouse on an Early Spring Evening in 2011
• Singerly Fire Company to Hold Fire & Police Badge and Patch Show Sept. 24, 2011
• Maryland Historical Trust Representative Works With Elkton Board to Untangle Matters Related to Historic District
• Dr. Davy McCall to Speak at Historical Society’s Annual Meeting Oct. 17, 2011
• Cecil Whig in Search of the ‘Swiss Cheese’ Historic District
• Historic District Committee Meeting With Commissioners Got Off Track as all They Heard was Dissolve It, Other Members Say
• After Local Board Makes Unusual Recommendation to Eliminate Historic District, Commissioners Ask to Meet With State Professionals
• Treasures of Charlestown Subject of Program at North East Library on Sept. 27
• Gilpin Falls Covered Bridge No Stranger to Hurricanes
• Cecil Whig: Battle Brews Over History in Elkton
• State Planner in Response to Local HARC Committee Comments: Preservation Regulations Aren’t Strict Rules Dictating Minutia
• On a Rain-Swept Sunday, Memorial to Victims of Eastern Airlines Plane Crash Near Port Deposit Dedicated
• Tome Student Helps Society Make Expanded Yearbook Collection Available to Patrons
• Elkton Historic District Commission Advises Town the Regulations are too Restrictive for the County Seat
• At Fire Station That’s Served Elkton for 40-Years Expansion is Underway
• Team Digitizes Centuries Old Funeral Home Records, From One of the Two Undertaking Establishments in Cherry Hill
• Escaping a 1969 Cecil County Heat Wave
• Dr. Koterski, Author of Book on Potters & Firebrick Makers of Cecil County, to Sign Books on Aug 5 in Elkton
• Panaromic Artists Sweep Through Area Producing Maps of Elkton, Havre de Grace and Rising Sun in 1907
• Cecil County Public Library at the Cecil County Fair, July 22-30
• Memorial Recalling Tragic Eastern Airlines Flight 606 Crash Outside Port Deposit Erected
• Port Deposit Town Tour Slideshow & Video
• First Emergency Responder to Arrive on Scene of 1963 Plane Crash Recalls Tragic Night
• Stories of Dramatic Times In Cecil During Revolution & War of 1812 Were Told in Downtown Elkton by Interesting People From Our Past
• Rachel Parker Kidnapping Case, which Involved Slave Catcher From Elkton, to be noted with Marker in West Nottingham Township; Commission Searching for Relatives in Preparation for Dedication
• On the Day When the British Came to Loot Elkton, An Enslaved Person Led the Invaders into an Ambush
• Middletown Transcript: Colonial picnic highlights historic Mount Harmon Plantation
• As Old Main Street Building is Demolished, Interesting Architectural Elements from Earlier Era Revealed
• Havre de Grace Patch: Lost To Time: What We Can Learn From Bainbridge
• Civil War Soldiers Grave Marked by Union Tombstone Nearly 90 Years After He Died
• CECIL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY NOMINATED FOR 2011 LIBRARY BLOG AWARD
• Chautauqua 2011: A House Divided, the American Civil War Coming to North East July 8 – 10
• On Grounds of Poorhouse, Cecil County Insane Asylum Opened in 1887
• Star Spangled 200 to be Commemorated in the Upper Bay – Website Promotes People, Places & Events of 1812 War
• Hear about History of Port Deposit at Perryville Library on May 5, 2011
• Cecil County Recognized for Commitment to Historic Preservation Following Revitalization of Gilpin’s Falls Covered Bridge
• Thirty-Three Years Ago This Weekend Cecil County Put On Alert to Receive Thousands If Mass Evacuation Was Needed in Pennsylvania
• Cecil County Public Library Friends Host Local Authors April 14
• Online Catalog of Cecil County Tombstones Expand to Over 30,000 Entries
• New Book: Potters and Firebrick Makers of Cecil County Maryland & Nearby, 1750 – 1950,
• Remembering Cecil County’s Fallen Firefighters
• Firemen’s Carnivals Were Popular Events in Cecil County
• USNTC, Bainbridge Fire Department
• A Surviving African-American One-Room Schoolhouse
• First Lines: How to Get Started Writing Your Story (and Publishing Your Work); Library Workshop, March 16
• How Elkton Became the Elopement Capital of the East
• Black History Month Speaker at Cecil College Talks About Cecil Co. “United States Colored Troops” Feb. 23
• From Chiefs to Bailiffs: Searching for Photos of Earlier Leaders of the Elkton Police Department
• Sheriff’s Office Takes Step Forward in 20th Century Law Enforcement by Providing Patrol Cars
• Some Inspiring Preaching & Moving Service at Wright’s AME on Rev. King’s Birthday
• The Police Beat in Rising Sun in 1900
• One of Elkton’s Old Congregations, Providence United Methodist Church
• The Wheels of Justice: Elkton Police Mount Bicycle Patrol in 1900
• From HDGHistory: King of Kings: Engravings From Lost Voices
• Elkton Vintage Base Ball Club Announces 2011 Schedule
• Valentines Weekend Program Explores Elkton’s Marriage History
• Dr. Peter Stavrakis, a Pioneer of Emergency Medicine in Cecil County
• Frederick Douglass Visited Port Deposit and Rising Sun in 1885
• Turkey Point Lighthouse
• Frederick Douglass, a Living History Presentation, Feb. 16 in Elkton
• Singerly Fire Company Members Staff the Equipment at the New Firehouse on North Street
• Paper Americana Show Brings Over Thirty Collectibles Dealers to Elkton Jan. 29
• Fire Apparatus From Water Witch Fire Company
• Scholars Add to Understanding of County’s Past As Master’s Thesis on U.S. Colored Troops Completed & Investigation about WW-II Continues
• ABC 2: Great grandson rewrites Civil War wrong; government to issue correct tombstone
• New Title Beautifully Captures History of Rising Sun for 150th Anniversary
• Lots of Holiday Activities in Cecil County This Weekend
• Author of War of 1812 Title Talks About County During the War While Another Title is Underway
• Research Tip: Recalling the Names of Long-Ago Telephone Exchanges, While Using Old Phone Books
• 47 Years Later, Remembering Nov. 22, 1963 in Cecil County
• Blue Moon Rising Over Cecil County
• One-Room Schoolhouse Near Sylmar Razed
• Genealogy Detectives: Tracing Your Family Roots
• The Mason-Dixon Line: The Stories behind a Geographic Boundary, at Rising Sun Library Nov. 13
• Lantern Tour of Historic Port Deposit, Oct. 30th
• Book Discussion at Rising Sun Library, Oct 13 — “Recollections of a Veteran or Four Years in Dixie” Published by Local Author 30 Years After the War
• Research Tip: When Digging Into the Past, Don’t Forget to Check Out Newspapers in Middletown, Havre de Grace & Oxford
• Mount Harmon Revolutionary War Reenactment Festival, Oct 23 & 24
• Cecil County Lore in Local Author’s Newest Book
• Harvesting the Rich Soil of Cecil County
• Maryland Life: Spectral Sightings at the Cecil County Jail: Ghosts of Prisoners Past
• Historical Sociey Society Focuses on War of 1812 For Annual Dinner
• Port Chamber of Commerce Brings Smokin’ on the River Port-B-Q to Town Oct. 16th
• A Look at the Center of Rising Sun About 1911
• Port-Palooza: Fun, Music & Food in Historic Port Deposit on Sept. 18th
• Cozy Coffee Cafe With Excellent Foods Opens in Port Deposit
• Saving the Sounds of Earlier Times
• Researchers Looked Into History Submered in the Elk River
• Walkin’ the Line: a Journey Along the Mason-Dixon — Sept. 20 at the Chesapeake City Library.
• Elkton Eclipse Base Ball Team Wins 4th Straight State Title
• Rising Sun 150th Anniversay Committee Announces Fall Schedule of Events
• Recalling the Octoraro Branch Railroad — Sept. 29 at Rising Sun Library
• Old One-Room Schoolhouses Disappearing Fast
• “At the Head of the Bay,” Sought After Title on Cultural & Architectural History of Cecil County Available from Historical Society
• Johns Hopkins Press Author, Dr. Eshelman, to Speak on War of 1812 in MD at Annual Historical Society Meeting, Oct. 18
• Zoe Mulford’s Song about the “Lady of the Highways”
• The War of 1812 on the Upper Chesapeake at Elkton Library, Sept. 15
• Saving Family Treasures, a Program at the North East Library, Sept. 18
• Enjoying the Water at Holloway Beach in Charlestown
• Buffington’s Store in Rising Store About 1912
• Rising Sun 150th Celebration Anniversary Dinner & Dance on Oct. 2
• Our Lady of the Highways Watches Over Stretch of Interstate Where Massive Pileup Occurred
• Rising Sun 150th Anniversary Fashion Show, Sept. 25
• Capello’s Bakery Has Tempting Homemade Products in Port Deposit
• Restoration of Historic Calvert Area Dwelling, Hebron’s Gift
• Gilpin’s Falls Covered Bridge Dedication Slide Show
• East Main Street Elkton From a Postcard About 1912
• East Main Street Elkton about 1912
• Where did all Those Cannonballs Come From: the Treasures in the Soil Around Elkton
• State Provides Grant to Restore Rodgers Tavern
• Cecil’s Bridge to the Past, Gilpin’s Fall’s Dedicated – a Preservation Success Story
• Cecilton Losses Unique Part of its Past to Make Way for Convenience Store
• All Aboard the Middletown & Cecilton Railway
• Independence Day Weekend at Historic Elk Landing
• Old Bohemia House, Historic Cecil Co. Property, Available Through MD Resident Curatorship Program
• Priceless Colonial Documents Return Home, After Lengthy Stay in New York
• Popular Chautauqua 2010 Brings Historical Figures to Perryville in July
• The Potter’s Field or Cecil County Cemetery: The Final Resting Place for Paupers
• Rehabilitation of the Savin-Conrey House in Chesapeake City Wins Award
• Saving Family Treasures, a Program at the Chesapeake City Library on June 15.
• Making Sure the History of the Rising Sun Little League Is Remembered: a New Book
• Archeology Day at Historic Elk Landing – June 5th
• Dan Rodricks Midday on WYPR Highlights Cecil County
• Delmarva Legends & Lore at Perryville Library May 20th
• Lots of People Were Talking Old Time Baseball on Main Street This Evening
• Relax and Enjoy May Day at Elk Landing
• Laidback Leisure, and Learning at Elk Landing in 2010!
• Relics of What Came Before: Old Family Burial Grounds
• Rising Sun 150th Celebration Ribbon-Cutting Video from YouTube.
• Rising Sun Kicks-Off 150th Anniversary With Ribbon-Cutting
• Elkton Eclipse Vintage Baseball Schedule for 2010
• Cecil’s Field of Dreams Coming to Historical Society
• Lost Cecil County Village: Bethel or Pivot Bridge
• Trial of H. Rap Brown Creates Tension Across Maryland in 1970
• Cecil’s Field of Dreams, an Exhibit Showcasing History of Baseball in County Opens April 30th.
• President of Sears Helps Build Modern School for African-American Students in Elkton in 1920s
• A History of Shopping Through the Sears Catalog – A Library Program, March 17
• Hiding the Bank’s Money During the British Raid on Elk River During War of 1812
• Pan American Airways Crash Worst Disaster in Maryland History
• Cecil County’s Bridges to the Past, Our Covered Bridges
• Cecil County’s Bridge to the Past: Ready for a Run Through the 21st Century
• Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. at Wrights AME Church With Rev. Brian Thomas
• Joseph George Johnson Built Covered Bridge That Stood Test of Time
• Roanoke Iron Bridge in Cecil County – WBAL Radio
• 23rd Paper Americana Shows Returns to Elkton on Jan 30.
• 1st Annual Museums of the Upper Bay Conference – Jan 23-24
• New Chesapeake City Virtual Exhibit Opens on Web
• Maryland’s Upper Bay Salutes the new Star-Spangled Banner NHT with Cake and Holiday Cheer
• The Civil War … Three Years With the Big Elk Rangers, a Living History Program on Jan. 26
• Getting Started With Genealogy a Workshop on Jan. 16
• StoryCorps: National Social History Project Records Ordinary People Telling Their Stories
• On the Day When the British Came to Loot Elkton, A Slave Leads the Invaders into an Ambush
• The Traveler’s B & O Christmas Tree, a Holiday Tradition
• Valentines Weekend Program Explores Elkton’s Marriage History
• The Elkton Police Catch Their Man
• Cecil’s Past for Ms. Litzenberg’s Class at Elk Neck Elementary
• This Weatherman Knew the Highs & Lows in Cecil County
• Nov 7 at Elkton Library: The 101st Screaming Eagles, a Walk With Heroes
• Cecil County NAACP Organized in 1962
• Cecil County Chapter of NAACP Observes 100th Anniversary of the National Civil Rights Organization
• Meeting To Explore John Smith Heritage Trail in Havre de Grace Thursday
• Library Friends Host “Shipwrecks on the Chesapeake” Program
• An Old One Room Schoolhouse Opened to the Public
• The Hangman’s Gallows in Cecil County
• Cecil Observer: Q&A with ‘Cecil Soldiers’ author Jenifer Grindle Dolde
• Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train
• Book Features Details About Powerful World War II Era Bainbridge Naval Training Center Football Team
• The Almighty Oyster: Food, Fighting & Sensibility, A Program at Perryville Library, Oct. 14
• Remembering Crystal Beach This Labor Day Weekend
• Remembering Dr. James L Johnson: He Worked to End the Racially Segregated Healthcare System
• Old Jail Managed to Outlive Its Usefulness in Just 128 Years
• Last Sailor at Bainbridge Says Goodbye to Friends at the Winchester Bar
• George Washington Carver Jr. League Baseball Team
• Another New Local Title Focuses on Football at Bainbridge Naval Training Center during World War II
• Cecil County Village of Sylmar Examined in New Title, Edge Effects
• Officer’s 1910 Sacrifice Being Remembered by Philadelphia PD; Searching for Relatives of the Rowlandsville Man
• Chautauqua 2009 Coming to Cecil County July 10, 11 & 12
• Cecil Observer — Elkton jet crash of 1963 in the news again due to missing plane
• On Memorial Day 1947, Eastern Airlines Flight 605 Crashed Near Port Deposit
• The Polk Directory: The Village of Pilot in 1908-09
• Video on Robert F. Kennedy’s Funeral Train
• Cecil Observer: Spanish Flu Epedemic Killed More Than 150 in Cecil County
• Witnesses to Robert Kennedy Funeral Train Sought by Delaware County Newspapers
• Bringing the Train on Down the Line in Western Cecil
• Former Cecil County Author Jack D. Hunter will be remembered for classic war Novel, “The Blue Max”
• Bringing the Train On Down the Line in Western Cecil
• Looking Back on Main Street: The Decades Bring Changes
• Cecil County Covered Bridges
• Newest Cecil County Site Welcomed to the Blogosphere
• Elkton’s Second Depot Opened in 1855
• Elkton Gets a New Railroad Station
• Mt. Zoar Colored School Conowingo
• The Obama Express Rolls Through Elkton
• Many Presidents Rode the Rails
• Hundreds Turn Out to Greet President-Elect Barack Obama as Whistle Stop Express Rolls Through.
• Remembering Charles Caldwell, the Principal of George Washington Carver School
• Remembering U.S. Colored Troops From Cecil County
• Route to Inauguration Will be Abe Lincoln’s
• African-American School Houses in Cecil County
• Inaugural Train to Pass Through Cecil
• Dec 7, 1941 – Cecil Goes on a War Footing & Bainbridge Develops
• The Baltimore & Ohio Holly Tree
• Remembering President Kennedy in Cecil County in Nov. 1963
• Remembering Jim Cheeseman, Cecil Whig Photographer
• Cecil’s Bridge to the Past: Federal Dollars Come Home to Help With Gilpin Falls Covered Bridge
• Hill’s Jitney Service – Chesapeake City
• Bernard Purdie, Hometown Drummer
• Thomas Mogle, Cecil County Sheriff Dies
• Forged by Fire: Elkton’s Main Street
• Remembering a Friend of Preservation in Cecil County
• Elkton Eclipse Fall to Rivals From Brooklyn in Final in 19th Century Base Ball
• Walking the Line on a Sunday in October
• All’s Quiet on the Octoraro Branch Line
• Reading an Old Diary from the C & D Canal in 1864
• Cecil County EMS: A Quick History
• Another Cecil County Vacation Spot – White Crystal Beach
• Recalling Holloway Beach, Charlestown, in the 1930s
• An Outstanding Late Evening Program on WERU, Blue Hill, Maine Has Cecil County Connections
• Elkton Considers Selling Historic Acreage to Developer
• Main Steet Fire in 1948
• Cecil County Becomes a Vacation Spot
• Return of Passenger Train to Elkton
• An Ancient Punishment – The Whipping Post Last Used in Cecil in 1940
• All Aboard at the Elkton Railroad Station
• Recalling Robert Kennedy’s Funeral Train Passing Through Cecil County
• Drumming legend Bernard “Pretty” Purdie Brings It Home
• Saying So Long to the Mayor of Main Street
• Reflecting on Yesterday in Cecil County